“National Additive Bilingualism”: towards the formulation of a language plan for South African schools

This is a personalised, substantially revised version of a similar, NEPI-authorised paper delivered at the 11th Annual SAALA Conference in Cape Town, 5–8 July 1992. The aim of this article is to propose a policy, which I have termed “National Additive Bilingualism”, for language planning in South African schools under a future democratic dispensation. I will also discuss some of the challenges to and implications of implementing such a policy such as National Additive Bilingualism for the future planners of a unitary system of South African education.