African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...

LONDON — Budget airline Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of Afrikaners flocked to the western Cape town of Oudtshoorn on Monday for a week-long celebration of their language at the Little Karoo National Arts Festival. Now in its 11th year, ...

Afrikaans is the third most spoken of 11 official languages in South Africa, used by 12 per cent of the 58 million people in the country. It has long been identified with the ideology of apartheid and ...

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 ...

Two recent Constitutional Court cases have qualified the constitutional right to “language choice” at public educational institutions and concluded a three-year period of language policy litigation at ...

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English ...

As the fallout from UK airline Ryanair's decision to test South African passport holders' general knowledge in Afrikaans continues, the Afrikaans Language Board says the quiz had major implications ...