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 ...

Here aresome weird and wonderful facts you may not know about this South Africanlanguage. 1. 60% of Afrikaans speakers aren'twhite. What? Yes,it's true. According to a study done in 2013 using data ...

A top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English. The University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to "transform the culture" to make it "truly South ...

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 ...

Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...

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 ...

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 ...

The continuing erosion of Afrikaans as a recognised official language and as a language of tuition is a cause for concern. Afrikaans is South Africa’s third most widely used language, and is the first ...

Deep-seated language issues at Stellenbosch University are popping up again as the SA Human Rights Commission continues a probe into allegations that Afrikaans in some residences has been prohibited.