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Is it just me or is only the Admin signed up so far?

Even though we have a nice post rhythm going so far(which could rival some of the older bloggers pro's quotas) We'll need to start thinking of a way to draw the other students into our little blogger club, their missing out on some important debates!

I'm hoping that when we add the second and third years this term we'll pick up some new regular Bloggers, but until then we have to get the first years around first.

If anyone has any ideas (apart from advertising on TUKS FM, which is way to expensive)share them, we won't bite off your head if it is a silly, stupid, rather-should-have-never-mentioned-it-cause-I'll-never-live-it-down idea.

A or E

On the back of protest about language equality at our dear university, by Afrikaans students who claim they are being marginalised, I’ve noticed that there is some complaining going on amongst English students as well.

Many of my English friends complain that campus newspapers, such as the Perdeby and Kampus Bleed, are solely published for the Afrikaans crowd, leaving them without a platform to express their views and feelings. They claim that even though there are English articles in the Perdeby, these are usually fashion or movie reviews, and not the need-to-know university news which affects the lives of every student on campus.

As always I find myself stuck on the fence when it come to the language debate, since being bilingual means I don’t much care about the language something is presented in, as long as it is well written and spellchecked. To me it has never matter whether the class was in Afrikaans or English, or whether the sports report was presented more often in the one then the other.

But what I realised last week was, that while I was swimming around in my tiny pond of bilingual tranquillity, the rest of the campus was divided, not between the so often spoken about racial lines, but rather dialectic ones.

Forget the black/white struggle, there is a something new and ugly about to boil over at the university and if it not addressed soon, the next protests we have about language equality might not have such peaceful endings

Note On Grammer And Caps

I want to remind everyone that posting on the blog has to be done, in proper grammer, and that your post has to make use of normal writing etiquette.

So NO E-mail or sms style writing please!

If any more post are admitted in this form they will be removed till the post is corrected.

Please remember that your post attrubutes to the over all look of the site.

Blogger in Alle Tale

As deel van die Admin span, wil ek net ook vir alle Afrikaanse bloggers welkom se! Julle kan gerus in Afrikaans skryf, ons wil van julle ook hoor.

Wanneer one tyd het sal ons ook julle hulp benodig om the Blog in Afrikaans te vertaal.

Pull Up A Chair!

Glad to see everybody is signing up. :0)

For those of you who didn't get a hand-out, there should be more available on Thursday.

In other news.

Steph told me this morning that the Afrikaans protestors, only got a tiny piece done on them in one of the Sunday newspapers. All that hard work, marching, seems to have gone to waste then.

Did anyone see if they got any press during the week? I don't think they did.

So is a protest worth it, if no one takes any notice?

A Nice to See You Update.

After loads of planning, many missed appointments, and numerous cups of stale cold coffee, we finally have this site up and running. This is still the temporary site, we should have the new design up soon, there are still a few kinks we need to work out, but for now feel free to post and get use to using blogger.

Most of you should have received you invitations by now, if you haven't, just give your e-mail address to the lectures in class or send the Blog Admin an e-mail and we should have you listed as soon as humanly possible.

We also need someone to come up with an original name for the Blog, the current one, University of Pretoria Journalism Blog, is more a description then a name. So if you have any ideas, send us an e-mail and we'll have a class vote on it or something.

If any of you are having problems signing up or posting, the Blog Admin, are the people to e-mail and talk to, they should be able to help.

We are hoping that this site will become a permanent and thriving part of the Journalism department, but it can only be so if it has a regular body of bloggers that post. So don't be shy, have your say.