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Use of Official Languages Act, 2012 (Act No. 12 of 2012)

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DWS Language Policy

4. Purpose

 

As prescribed in Section 4(2) of UOLA, a language policy intends to:

 

4.1 Identify at least three official languages a department will use in rendering its services;

 

4.2 Stipulate how official languages will be used in: effectively communicating with the public, official notices, government publications, and inter and intra-government communication;

 

4.3 Describe how a department will effectively communicate with the members of the public whose language of choice is not one of its chosen official languages, or is South African Sign Language

 

4.4 Describe how members of the public can access the language policy;

 

4.5 Provide complaints mechanism to enable members of the public to lodge complaints regarding the use of official languages in a department.