(University of the Free State, 2003) Strydom, Hennie
English: The entrenchment of multilingualism in the South African Constitution articulated
the need for a national policy and a legal framework on the basis of which government
bodies could take the measures necessary for the implementation of the constitutional
directives on multilingualism. This article analyses the process of writing a policy and
this framework since 1995. Three phases are covered: the work of the Language Plan
Task Group; the Language Plan of the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and
Technology, and the contributions of the Advisory Panel on Language Policy.