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… to teach half of all subjects in standard five in Afrikaans. Parents and schools immediately opposed this …

… Apartheid, literally meaning (if translated into Afrikaans) “to be in a state of being apart”, was further … which stipulated that all learners should be taught in Afrikaans. Image source In the 1960s the pursuit of white …

… 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 …

… his teacher, Richard Rive , and his teacher’s friends, Afrikaans writers and artists [6] . His family could not …

… policy of racial segregation (later to become known by the Afrikaans word apartheid ). National Party leader D.F. Malan …

… in the common language now spoken, which became known as ‘Afrikaans’. Slavery and its impact in the Cape Slavery …

… code of conduct. Newspaper bosses, both English and Afrikaans, responded in June, deciding to establish a media …

… in enabling the growth of Afrikaner capital). In 1948, Afrikaans coal mine owners decided to export coal instead of … (the new name was a combination between ESCOM and the Afrikaans name for the power utility …

… media such as Die Burger and Die Transvaler which were Afrikaans language newspapers. In addition, these newspapers … right to establish exclusive Volk which saw white Afrikaans-speakers as regarded as the legitimate citizens. … William A., C. Anthony Giffard, and Harva Hachten. "The Afrikaans press: freedom within commitment." In The Press and …

… was a crime. [iii] Although he grew up in a Coloured Afrikaans-speaking community, he chose English as his …

… the Nationalist government enforcing a law that required Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in African schools. …

… that majority of factory-owners in the Boland region were Afrikaans-speaking. Alexander observed in her autobiography …

… 1987, Dr van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking intellectuals, to meet with the … Children were currently being taught either in English or Afrikaans, both languages inherited from the eras of …

… immediately issued a 30-page pamphlet in English and Afrikaans entitled: A Protest on behalf of the Artists of …

… areas. It continues to lobby hard for the protection of Afrikaans, farmers and gun-owners and has been outspoken in …

… Uprisings) by pupils protesting against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of teaching in schools. 1985 November, …

… they used Fanagalo, a mixture of Zulu, English and Afrikaans but over time a distinct South African English …

… go on strike, protesting the introduction of compulsory Afrikaans education. Over 1000 people are killed in the …

… them in Dutch, and out of this mixture of languages grew Afrikaans, as the slaves contributed their share to the …

… Parts of this Colonial history section was translated from Afrikaans by Varushka Jardine for the SAHO website, with the …

… new music, its melodious forthright and poetic language, Afrikaans, first expressed in the Arabic script of the …

… the DA in its 1999 campaign: “Fight Back” – rendered into Afrikaans as “Slaan Terug”. B6. Smaller parties in Parliament …

… Town , (text: Dene Smuts) (The book was also published in Afrikaans.) The Forgotten Highway (Through Ceres and the … 19 March, at the Market Gallery and was sponsored by the Afrikaans magazine Vrye Weekblad. David Goldblatt 's book, … Award for, Voelvry , a series on alternative, dissident Afrikaans music tour. Steve Hilton Barber receives Institute …

… State. When he got there, however, the warder told him in Afrikaans, 'Hey, we do not keep 'charras' (Indians) here' and …

… suburb. Ironically, its new name was Triomf, an Afrikaans term meaning ‘triumph’, presumably signifying the … St John’s School and King Edward VII School, the former Afrikaans Business School, the Ballet School, a number of …

… Tour . The series covered the alternative and dissident Afrikaans music scene. • Paul Weinberg and Santu Mofokeng … Award for, Voelvry , a series on alternative, dissident Afrikaans music tour. • Steve Hilton Barber receives the …

… was the government’s decision to introduce the use of Afrikaans on an equal basis with English as the official … of protest erupts, even from the strongly pro-government Afrikaans press. 1981 Declared the Year of the Youth to pay … of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed to the government’s planned …

… Association (SAPA) gives more say in its affairs to the Afrikaans-language press. 20 February, South Africa signs a … 6 November, A R500,000 grant offered to the proposed new Afrikaans University in Johannesburg by the Johannesburg City … the Judge-President of the Cape Province. 5 October, A new Afrikaans-medium university is established in Johannesburg, …

… policy of racial segregation (later to become known by the Afrikaans word apartheid ). NP leader D.F. Malan becomes …

… in the common language now spoken, which became known as 'Afrikaans'. European control of India Britain takes control …