Use of Official Languages Act, 2012 (Act No. 12 of 2012)NoticesDWS Language Policy4. 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. |