Hundreds of students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa have protested against the Afrikaans language being favoured at their school, alleging that it promotes racism. Afrikaans is viewed by ...
Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande shared an often ignored fact recently, that "the single largest [group of] speakers of the Afrikaans language are the working class in the Western Cape".
It is not so much the rewriting of history by those who claim it, but what it is they leave out or choose to ignore that matters. Afrikaans, one of 12 official languages in South Africa, is being ...