Ryanair made Dinesh Joseph take a test in Afrikaans when flying back from a vacation. The airline has said it is issuing the tests to guard against fraudulent South African passports. This is how ...

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".

Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...

Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan The Patagonian desert in southern Argentina is a harsh environment. Little seems to ...

Johannesburg - "Geskik wiskundig instrumente miskien gewond" ("Suitable mathematical instruments perhaps injured"). Pupils and teachers were taken aback at these oddly-worded instructions in the ...

ANC national executive committee member Fébé Potgieter-Gqubule has allayed fears that the Bela Act which is to be fully implemented may kill the Afrikaans language. Speaking at a press conference ...