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 ...

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".

Lloyd Hill received funding from the South African National Research Foundation (Grant #111845). When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a ...