Ryanair caused controversy last week by insisting that all South African passport holders undergo a test in Afrikaans before boarding its flights to the UK to weed out those travelling with fraudulent ...

Oscar van Heerden finds a renewed love and pride for his mother-tongue and writes that he owes this to the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees. For years now, my wife and I have made our way to the ...

Cape Town – The name Helmut Lotti is synonymous with a smooth and silky voice that South Africans love to listen to on the radio and watch in concert. The suave singer has embarked on local tours ...

My first real acquaintance with the wonders of Afrikaans and the educational value of the language was around standard 5 (Grade 7) thanks to DJ Opperman’s Groot Verseboek (a definitive collection of ...

One place in which to observe Thabo Mbeki's "two nations" thesis is in the language debates stalking the former white Afrikaans universities. These debates are discussing the future of Afrikaans as a ...