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Gabriel Kenny, aged five, gets to grips with Mandarin characters as part of a US school program. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Teaching Mandarin in schools is another slap in the face for African languages

Russell H. Kaschula, Rhodes University; Bulelwa Nosilela, Rhodes University; Kathleen Heugh, University of South Australia; Monica Hendricks, Rhodes University, and Pamela Maseko, Rhodes University

There is a new potential coloniser on South Africa’s linguistic block. From 2016, Mandarin will be taught in schools – and this will see African languages bumped even further down the pecking order.

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