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… speaking working class. It was making inroads into the Afrikaans working class as well as the middle class. The 1913 …

… Bantu Education , and especially against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction, which resulted in the … school students rose in protest against the imposition of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in three school … up to June 1976 When government decreed in 1975 that Afrikaans would be the language of instruction in half of all …

… into two groups; the Cape Malay’s whose home language is Afrikaans and the Indians, who speak English and their own … religion but for the Cape Malay, it is supplemented by Afrikaans. The ‘Cape Malay’ community generally speak mostly Afrikaans but also English, or local dialects of the two. …

… protest march. They were protesting against having to use Afrikaans as one of the languages of instruction at school. … I was doing Form One (Grade 8). We were taught Maths in Afrikaans - not all subjects were taught in Afrikaans. We had difficulties; even Mr Ntshalintshali, who …

… the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid , describes how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' to support the Afrikaner … Callinicos writes that as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women were regarded as the main bearers of their … a challenge because of cultural barriers that bound most Afrikaans women, there were some such as Bettie du Toit who …

… . This treaty ended the Second Anglo-Boer War, where the Afrikaans republics such as the Transvaal (today largely …

… 16, 1976 , Soweto students’ revolted against the use of Afrikaans as the language of instruction at African secondary …

… As Bernoldus Niemand, he produced an album of satirical Afrikaans songs such as "Hou My Vas, Korporaal" (Hold Me … on the army, thereby influencing an entire "Alternative Afrikaans" movement of Afrikaners protesting against … In the new millenium, free of the baggage of apartheid, Afrikaans music has grown in popularity. A major addition to …

… Africa’s eleven official languages (which include English, Afrikaans and nine Bantu languages) not one is a Khoisan … colonial and apartheid eras.  Indeed, many Khoisan adopted Afrikaans during these periods, especially in the Western Cape, where Afrikaans is a dominant language.  As a result, many of their …

… insult. Gangsters were city-bred and spoke a mixture of Afrikaans and English, known as tsotsitaal. Initially, they … or gangsters spoke tsotsitaal which was a mixture of Afrikaans and English, but also borrowed heavily from …

… into Pondoland and further south. White settlers, mainly Afrikaans speaking farmers, trekked deep into the territories …

… a one stream policy which envisioned conciliation between Afrikaans and English-speaking whites. This moderate stance, … a two stream policy of separate, but equal, development of Afrikaans-speaking Whites on one the hand, and …

… of the Cape Colony and the political problems between Afrikaans and English-speaking people became worse than ever …

… that mathematics and social sciences be taught in Afrikaans as stipulated under the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974. The demonstration had been … not in class, good naturedly protesting against the use of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction at their schools. They …

… (telephone). x  Similar to a prolonged gggg sound in Afrikaans, leading to gggarra. //  Another click, this time …

… Pretoria branch on 1 February 1935. It presented itself in Afrikaans advertisements as ‘your own bank’, ‘where you feel … Bank. According to Craig Charney: ‘The Sanlam- dominated Afrikaans Commercial Institute (AHI) was urging Afrikaner …

… van Regte Afrikaners is established in Paarl to promote Afrikaans as a people’s language independent from Dutch. 1877 … proposes a university system that would bring English and Afrikaans speaking communities together in South Africa. 1894 … university system should satisfy both white communities (Afrikaans and English). 1913 The Land Act establishes …

… same time, in the 1960s, new talent was emerging in the Afrikaans literary scene; writers Jan Rabie, Etienne Leroux, … Breyten Breytenbach and Andre Brink. Publishing first in Afrikaans, these writers were increasingly politicised by the … as one of the most linguistically radical new poets in Afrikaans, left South Africa in 1960, where he became a vocal …

… them.  Partly as a backlash to this, the Boers came to see Afrikaans as the volkstaal (people's language) and as a … English and Dutch became the official languages.  Afrikaans did not gain recognition as an official language …

… before 1994. In today’s anthem the one verse is sung in Afrikaans and the last verse is sung in English. Here are the …

… and learnt to speak Dutch, which later became Afrikaans, and dress in European clothes. 1795 September, The …

… Student Uprisings erupt as a result of the enforcement of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black schools.   1977 …

… Student Uprisings erupt as a result of the enforcement of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black schools.   1977 …

… grandmother on his mother’s side married a man of German, Afrikaans nationality. [iii] His father was German and came … years of high school in which he was required to learn in Afrikaans and finish high school in Afrikaans. This type of bleak racism shows the nature of the …

… include medical practices. In the San, Black and Afrikaans traditions, people knew how to treat certain … it was usually the medicine men that knew this, but in Afrikaans it is called ‘boererate’, and anybody was allowed … for it. Captain Van Hunks and the Devil An old Dutch/Afrikaans tale about how Cape Town got its ‘tablecloth’, a …

… Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu. …

… and learnt to speak Dutch, which later became Afrikaans, and dress in European clothes. …

… family, and Hoërskool Jan van Riebeeck is a popular Afrikaans high school in the centre of Cape Town. Read more …

… he must be a member of one of the traditional Afrikaans churches, must have attended an Afrikaner school, must have married an Afrikaans-speaking wife and he must support the ‘right’ … organisation? (2 x 2) (4) The organisation only accepted Afrikaans speaking white people as part of their …