The Minister of Higher Education's call on the 5th of April 2011 for South African universities to execute a policy which saw all university graduates leaving with a credit in an African language was the catalyst fo the University of KwaZulu-Natal's decision to carry out a compulsory isiZulu module for all non-mother tongue speakers of the language. One of the aims motivating this decision was the advance of ‘social cohesion’. Students admit the assets of a skill to communicate in an African language but also display restricted bent towards acquiring proficiency in the language; thence, retarding the social cohesion advance, per se.