LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING IN SOUTH AFRICA There are many diverse official languages used in South Africa including Venda, Afrikaans, English, Soto, and Swazi among others and most South Africans can speak more than one language. These languages spoken are the products of socio-cultural, ideological, cultural, and historical development . This can also be the result of power, autonomy and colonial cultural influence. There are also myth and false belief that these languages are prevalent and mishandled especially in education since education has been very important in nation building and poverty alleviation . These are the following myth; anyone who knows any of these languages can successfully teach or teach this language, Creoles cannot be used as medium in education and it is just a part of a language, It is too expensive for teacher and student to learn and develop multi languages in school, there should only be one languag...