Today marks a significant milestone in South Africa’s linguistic history—100 years since Afrikaans was officially recognised as a state language. While many celebrate this centenary, it also prompts a ...

As many South Africans celebrated the 100th-year of existence of the Afrikaans language, some doubt it would be around another year, or exist in a significant way. But EFF MP Carl Niehaus loves ...

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 ...

Afrikaans is one of 11 of South Africa’s official languages Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron has sparked a firestorm in her native South Africa for suggesting that Afrikaans, a language descended ...

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".

South Africa's language authorities have denounced Irish airline Ryanair for requiring a test in Afrikaans for all South Africans before they can fly to Britain. Afrikaans is spoken by about 12% of ...