South Africa is one of the most multilingual countries in the world with its 12 official languages. Its most spoken languages are isiZulu (24.4%), isiXhosa (16.3%) and Afrikaans and Sepedi (10.6 and 10%, respectively)1. Since the fall of apartheid in 1994, English has supplanted Afrikaans as the country’s unofficial “lingua franca” of sorts - despite only being spoken by 8.7% of the population as a home language. This raises important questions, among others, about the citizens’ language practices and ideologies, as well as about the country’s educational language policies and their overall implementation in institutions of higher learning. In this chapter, we will look at the language policy framework of the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, one of the top universities in Africa, against the backdrop of South Africa’s recent democratisation.