Part 2 in a two-part series: Part 1 can be read here. On the eve of South Africa’s democratic dispensation, a language deal was reached between the incumbent National Party and the aspirant African ...
Afrikaans as a language is both beautiful and innocent — until it became an instrument of oppression
Language is at the core of every society and culture. This has been the case for millennia. Without language, there is no communication. It is unimaginable how social relations and day-to-day ...
In the wake of South Africa's long and complex struggle against apartheid, the call for genuine transformation in education is more pressing than ever. One of the critical conversations that needs to ...
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It’s giving mondeling: SA man in the US butchers Afrikaans, leaving Mzansi in stitches
A South African man in the US went viral after butchering Afrikaans in an interview, leaving Mzansi amused as the clip sparks ...
IN-DEPTH:Charlize Theron made a controversial comment during an interview this week which stirred up a hot debate in her home country over her mother tongue, Afrikaans. Herman Eloff speaks to experts ...
The imam put his foot in it. It was in 1985 in the Boorhaanol mosque in Bo-Kaap and he delivered his sermon in English. It immediately drew bitter recrimination as the older congregants of this mosque ...
ATM director Michael Jonas and council chair Jean Meiring write that the bad old days when the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument (ATM) was associated with Afrikaner nationalism are long gone and ...
As many South Africans celebrated the 100th-year of existence of the Afrikaans language, some doubt it would be around another year, or exist in a significant way. But EFF MP Carl Niehaus loves ...
Sandra Liebenberg receives research funding from the National Research Foundation. She writes here in her personal capacity and her views should not be ascribed to the National Research Foundation.
South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory. The country has 11 official languages, and many say ...
Ryanair did not say whether it carried out similar tests for other nationalities Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is still insisting that all South Africans travelling on flights to the UK must ...
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