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".

Ryanair has dropped a controversial test in the Afrikaans language aimed at identifying passengers travelling on fake South African passports. Boss Michael O'Leary said imposing the test "doesn't make ...

There were mixed opinions and feelings by citizens and experts about the place of Afrikaans in society. In recent years the language has come under fire by various departments and political parties.

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. At the foot of the Hawequas Mountains near Paarl, a slice of South African history is on the market for R8-million. It’s an urgent sale. The ...

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 ...

Cape Town - Research into early Afrikaans by the late Bo-Kaap historian Achmat Davids has been revived in a new book that debunks stereotypes about the language. The book, Die Afrikaans van die Kaapse ...

What to do with the Afrikaners? And what should the Afrikaners be doing? Whereas the latter question has been a subject of intense debate among Afrikaners since 1994, the former one is not really ...

Charlize Theron has been slammed by fans in her native South Africa for branding Afrikaans a 'dying language' and claiming only '44 people still speak it.' The Oscar-winning actress, 47, who was born ...

As a Beckett scholar, I think it’s worth asking why Afrikaans is so late on the scene – and why it matters. The action involves two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who have a series of absurd ...

A top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English. The University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to "transform the culture" to make it "truly South ...