According to Oelofse, EFF Tuks aims to remove Afrikaans as a teaching language at UP and to address what it calls the dominant Afrikaans culture in residences.
“We want to challenge the institution itself. The university is a bastion for racism. It’s a bastion for white supremacy. It’s a bastion for Afrikaner-dominated culture,” he said.
“First we have to drive the idea that Afrikaans needs to be removed as a medium of education at this university. [The] second step would be to tackle the Afrikaans culture at residences,” Oelofse added. He also said that there should not be a dominant culture in residences and that Afrikaans at UP needs to be reconceptualised.
EFF Tuks had originally intended to boycott the elections in protest of the university’s new constitution for Student Governance.
