So #SONA2019 is currently trending worldwide on Twitter, and it’s pretty obvious why. But if you gaze further down the social network’s top trends on Thursday night, you’ll see “Afrikaans“. Yes.

UPDATE, 26 MARCH, 16:00: Toyota is out and MTN still negotiating as Afrikaans is Groot asks its fans for support Cape Town – The local music concert Afrikaans is Groot (AIG), which recently caused a ...

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 ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The debate on Afrikaans in universities that ended in the Constitutional Court last week, was really about power. It was about a group that had lost political power now trying to reassert its identity ...

But high-level English, Afrikaans and English-Afrikaans bilingualism are cultural capital, or the correlates of relative privilege. Recent critics of the Constitutional Court judgments have tended to ...

Umalusi — the quality assurance in education and training body — has raised concerns that some provinces have a shortage of Afrikaans markers. This was revealed by Mafu Rakometsi, Umalusi’s chief ...

A couple of weeks past, I chaired a panel discussion on AfriKaaps, an emergent speech variety of Kaaps (a variety of Afrikaans) in conversation with hip-hop artists Blaq Pearl, Jitsvinger and Emile YX ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

It's such an extreme sport to be a South African guys. All it takes is one person to start something and the whole country is speaking or tweeting in Afrikaans. And most of them don't even know why!

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 ...