This paper focuses on the indigenous African languages policy in education
debates in post-apartheid South Africa, and provides a policy review
of language in education in the past 20 years of liberation in the South
Africa. The research problem is that the post-1994 governments of South
Africa stated in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa (1996)
that indigenous official African languages must be in the curricula of the
education system. But the findings reflect that this constitutional mandate
has not been accomplished in the twenty years of South Africa’s liberation.
Conclusions drawn are that the former two official languages used in the
education policies of the apartheid South Africa, i.e. English and Afrikaans,
have continued to be used in pretended implementation of indigenous official
African languages in the curricula of education of a free South Africa.