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Frank Smith, Whose language? What power? A universal conflict in a South African setting. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993. Pp. 177. Hb $38.00, pb $16.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2009

Robert K. Herbert
Robert K. Herbert
Affiliation:
Dept. of African Languages, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Language in Society , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1995 , pp. 298 - 301
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1 Since the book is essentially a personal document, let me state my own position here: like Smith, I am not South African. I have worked intermittently in South Africa since 1981, usually enjoying either a research or teaching appointment at the University of the Witwatersrand. My previous appointments have been in the Department of Linguistics, and I am currently head of the Department of African Languages. I have, then, first-hand knowledge of the institution described in the book, and of the staff who were Smith's colleagues. I have some knowledge of South African educational systems; and my graduate students, like Smith's, are products of apartheid education and thinking.