The use of Dutch is ratified in the Cape parliament

In 1873 the Dutch language was accepted in the Cape Parliament. This was subsequent to a petition that was submitted to parliament by the District of Albert (Burgersdorp) in 1857. The petition served as a formal plea for the use of both Dutch and English languages. The petition was finally ratified by the Cape Parliament in 1873. The First and Second Boer Wars reinforced the position of Afrikaans for after the war culminated; a new upsurge emerged to establish Afrikaans as an official language. This was known as the Second Afrikaans Language Movement. When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, Dutch became an official language alongside English. On 5 May 1925,  Afrikaans was subsumed under Dutch and thus obtained official recognition. In addition, the first Afrikaans newspaper, magazine and literary texts were published in 1875 by the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (Society for Real Afrikaners) in Cape Town.