Will lectures in Afrikaans and English kill off the taal? Yes, reckons a very vocal band of current and former Stellenbosch University students, after the university recently approved the introduction of dual-medium instruction in the final undergraduate year of the arts faculty. For the past two months, a well-oiled media campaign has been raging in the letters and news columns of Die Burger, the largest Afrikaans daily in the country. From this it has been clear that not all Afrikaans speakers are happy that their language has to compete with 10 other official languages instead of being one of only two official languages.