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".
AfriForum took Unisa to court after the institution adopted a language policy that phased out teaching and learning in Afrikaans five years ago. Unisa approached the Constitutional Court after the ...
Pierre de Vos teaches Constitutional law at the University of Cape Town Law Faculty, where he is head of the Department of Public Law. He writes a blog, entitled 'Constitutionally Speaking', in which ...
In efforts to contain institutional conflict at the University of Pretoria (UP) stemming from the campaigns #AfrikaansMustFall and #AfrikaansSalBly, the offer of a particular kind of multilingualism – ...
South Africa's University of Stellenbosch has stopped teaching in Afrikaans after students protested that it was a language they identify with apartheid. The elite institution announced it will use ...
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"One week is a massive achievement": Kid's Afrikaans oral preparation gets rave reviews
Watch a young girl's impressive Afrikaans oral preparation, praised by South Africans online. One week of dedicated practice ...
Anne Heffernan's position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She observed and participated in the October-November 2015 FeesMustFall protests. This month forty years ago, thousands of ...
Oxford is a magical place over Christmas. Fairy lights twinkle in every window. Children, wearing mittens, frolic down Cornmarket, whilst their parents, hot toddys in hand, watch on with beaming ...
From June 27, all new content that would have appeared in Rand Daily Mail will be published only in the BusinessLIVE Opinion section ...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has scored an important initial victory in our quest for transparency and justice regarding the events that took place during the court case over the abolition of ...
South Africa's top university drops Afrikaans as the main language of instruction and adopts English instead, following complaints of exclusion by students. Also, amid ongoing tensions, the EU calls ...
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