AHC: Prevent Afrikaans from diverging from Dutch

Afrikaans is not too convergent from Dutch so it would not be too hard to keep the languages from diverging. One important thing to understand though is that Afrikaans developed as a sort of collquial dutch spoken by coloured slaves and Afrikaaner settlers. The Afrikaaner settlers themselves were almost all low class and therefore they were not as well spoken as the higher ups back in the netherlands or the VOC.
So in order to keep the language from diverging from Dutch you would have to first off have an educated population which would speak "proper" dutch, it should be noted that the local Dutch reformed church kept Dutch as the it's officail language of instruction into the 20th century.
Next you would have to prevent the formation of an independent Afrikaaner identity. This would be alot more difficult as the Afrikaaner identity had already started growing and Afrikaaners had already begun to distinguish between themselves and the Dutchman of the VOC in the 18th century.

The Dutch part of the Africaaner was more of the Flemmish backround so that dialect was common.In the Universities they used Dutch a lot in courses like in Stellenbosh and Praetoria.What about the French Africaaner though? He spoke Africaans as Lingua Franca,but you couldn't persuade one with Hugenot backround to become Dutch...
 
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