ABSTRACT
The English language history for African language speakers in South Africa started from a colonial perspective in the Cape of Good Hope from the time of the English occupation under Lord Charles Somerset in the eighteenth century. The ANC, which was everyone who was black in South Africa, turned their energies toward resisting White domination by the then Afrikaner-led autocratic Nationalist government. Despite the significant migration trend into South Africa, French has remained relegated to the status of unofficial, foreign and/or immigrant language. This also indicates that no satisfactory discourse of talking about, and dealing with, racial inequality has yet been developed in the system of government and economics in South Africa. The story of my pathway through the decades with higher education pedagogy in South Africa might well resonate with pathways others in different parts of the world have recently followed.
