Language is a prime site of ideological struggle in South Africa. The state not only defines the hegemonic construct of reality, but it perpetuates and delineates the ethnic, racial, political, historical nd geographical content of what it calls ‘national-states' and racially segregated ‘communities' which fall outside the ‘homelands’.
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