The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides that provincial governments must, by legislative and other measures, regulate and monitor the use of official languages. The Department of Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation compiled a draft Policy document and a draft Bill dealing with the use of provincial official languages.
The draft documents regulate and monitor the use of three official languages for Government purposes by the provincial government, promote parity of esteem and equitable treatment of official languages and promote good language management by provincial government for efficient public service administration.
Interested persons may obtain copies of the above mentioned documents from:
Mr Lebohang Nkhobo,
Office No. 308
Business Partners, Cnr East Burger & Henry St
Bloemfontein.
Tel: 051 410 4756
E-mail: nkhobo@sacr.fs.gov.za.
These documents are also available from Free State libraries. Interested persons may submit written comments within 30 days to:
Mr Mathene Mahanke
Postal address: Private bag X 20606
Bloemfontein
9300
Physical address: Business Partners Building,
Cnr East Burger & Henry Streets
Bloemfontein
Tel: 051 410 4705
Fax: 086 697 8950
E-mail: mahanke@sacr.fs.gov.za
Media enquiries:
Vincent Khetha, Acting Chief Director: Cultural affairs, Library and Archive services
Cell: 082 342 0004
Tel: 051 4104829
E-mail: khethav@sacr.fs.gov.za
