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 ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

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 ...

The University of Pretoria, is phasing out Afrikaans as the official medium of instruction, and will soon only use English as the primary language of communication and administration. This policy was ...

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 ...

Finance minister Tito Mboweni ruffled feathers after tweeting that he disagrees with the removal of Afrikaans as a medium language of instruction at the University of Pretoria. I publicly, and in my ...

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 ...

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.