Actress Charlize Theron, an Oscar winner, has come under heavy fire in South Africa for declaring that her native Afrikaans is “a disappearing language". The “Monster” and “Tully” actress said that ...

I have a love-hate relationship with Afrikaans. I really do. But language has always been an emotive issue. Understandably so. It’s called your mother tongue with good reason. And who wouldn’t feel ...

Today marks a significant milestone in South Africa’s linguistic history—100 years since Afrikaans was officially recognised as a state language. While many celebrate this centenary, it also prompts a ...

We never fabricated apartheid. The landing of Jan van Riebeck at the Cape in 1652 made it very difficult for the Dutch and Khoisan people to communicate. In this engagement, a language had to be born ...

Hollywood star Charlize Theron has faced a mountain of criticism for calling her mother tongue Afrikaans "a dying language". Theron joked it was spoken by "about 44 people" and was "not very helpful".

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There were mixed opinions and feelings by citizens and experts about the place of Afrikaans in society. In recent years the language has come under fire by various departments and political parties.

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 ...

Johannesburg (AFP) – Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron has sparked a firestorm in her native South Africa for suggesting that Afrikaans, a language descended from Dutch settlers, was heading for ...

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Many of the languages spoken today have roots in some of the world's oldest civilizations. However, many other languages that we interact with are fairly new. Some languages have a blend of both the ...

The Department of Basic Education says it is seeing a clear shift as Afrikaans former Model-C schools adopt English as a ...