English as a dominant language in a multilingual country: South Africa

Just came across this article while supposedly studying for my midterm tomorrow -interesting perspective on English as an instrument of class division in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Yet it is also true that these people -- both black and white -- are the beneficiaries of a post-apartheid dispensation marked by increasing inequalities. Thus the elite has become distant from the masses, who have derived little, if any, benefit from the new era. The elite's embrace of English is both a sign of this distancing and a means by which it is being achieved.
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-04-21-the-future-will-be-spoken-in-all-tongues