Minister in the presidency Essop Pahad and justice minister Penuell Maduna also attended the President's meeting with the Afrikaner leadership at the presidential office, Tuynhuys, in Cape Town.
The FF's federal council requested the high profile meeting with authorities to raise their concerns and the two delegations hailed the gathering as 'a good meeting'.
Presidential spokesperson Bheki Khumalo said the President would further discuss the issues raised by the party led Dr Pieter Mulder with the ministers concerned, who will in turn take up the matter with the party leadership.
The Afrikaner community has been crying foul at what they see as the phasing out of their mother tongue within public organs such as the courts, the military and learning institutions.
They have also claimed that government's affirmative action policies were marginalising them, blocking opportunities for their children while their safety on farms was continuously under threat - concerns which government has consistently dealt with.
Government has consistently assured the Afrikaner community that they too were South Africans, who deserved equal treatment and protection as anybody else as enshrined in the country's supreme law - the Constitution. - BuaNews
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