Afrikaner descendants representing Argentina, South Africa today and the country’s old flag. Richard Finn Gregory / GOODWORK The Patagonian desert in southern Argentina is a harsh environment. Little ...

Afrikaans is one of the most accessible languages for English speakers, thanks to its simple grammar, phonetic spelling, and familiar vocabulary. With the right mix of structured lessons and immersive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University students in South Africa come to blows over lessons conducted in Afrikaans, the white minority language identified with ...

Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

Soweto schoolchildren protest against Afrikaans in 1976. Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford UK This month forty years ago, thousands of Soweto school children took to the ...

From Pretoria to the Language Monument: Solidarity embarked on the Afrikaans 100 Letter Tour where giant letters, town by town, story by story, celebrated Afrikaans 100. Photo: Supplied Pretoria ...

Little comment has thus far been offered on the UFS’s position (accepted by the CC ruling) that Afrikaans would be retained ...

A Chinese man impressed many social media users after delivering an impressive basic Mandarin lesson, speaking Afrikaans, in ...

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 ...