A young man started teaching Afrikaans on TikTok but South Africans joked that it's December and they'll start learning in ...

The SABC says broad assumptions that its reduction in Afrikaans content and changes to remaining Afrikaans programming are ...

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 ...

Afrikaans is not a problem in South Africa. The way that nothing is political, but anything can be made political, Afrikaans is being used as a political instrument. The language is increasingly ...

MPs noted that the number of former Model C schools that have incorporated African languages remains low and requested a school-level spreadsheet that will allow committee members to see which schools ...

The imam put his foot in it. It was in 1985 in the Boorhaanol mosque in Bo-Kaap and he delivered his sermon in English. It immediately drew bitter recrimination as the older congregants of this mosque ...

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 ...

Why does the issue of language in advertising arouse such strong feelings? What are some of the complexities involved? Folio invited me to open a window on their perspective, outlining some of the ...

Deputy Director General for Delivery and Support, Simone Geyer, told MPs that there is progress in terms of language policies ...