In 1974, the Department of Bantu Education issued the Afrikaans Medium Decree, which was a policy that mandated the use of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. This proved to be a significant hardship on black learners and educators who were not properly equipped to teach and learn subjects in a language that was not their mother tongue. This law was met with rejection from black students who saw the language as that of ‘the oppressors’ and thus