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The best Afrikaans movies are entertaining and cut across various genres. Most of them have English subtitles and are on ...
South African actor Anton Jefta, who stars as Brandon Cloete on kykNET & kie’s telenovela Skemergrond, opened up about his love for scripted Afrikaans dialogue, in an exclusive interview with ...
Recently released research into what South Africans like about Afrikaans films is demonstrated by the success of the |rom-com, Strikdas, writes Theresa Smith AFTER TWO weeks at the cinemas ...
"It is with great sadness that we share the news with you: Jan Bloukaas, Jean du Plessis, went to his Heavenly home last night," read an Afrikaans statement posted on the singer's Facebook page on ...
For the record, let me make it clear: I am Afrikaans and I love Afrikaans. It is the language of my heart and of my dreams. I grew up in a typical Afrikaner household during apartheid, where my ...
Other South Africans also love their languages; but they don't fall apart at the cultural seams because it is not taught in higher education. So why are Afrikaans taalstryders taking universities ...
These are Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, Siswati, Tshivenḓa and Xitsonga. "I love the language but I loathe the fact that it was used to oppress us ...
“I do very well in Afrikaans and I am aiming for four As – one in Afrikaans – in my final examinations this year,” she said. “I love Afrikaans but I also love my mother tongue, which is ...
But he still maintains that he wanted South Africans to unite for a common cause, instead of being divided. "I love you, I love Afrikaans people, I love black people," he said in the video.
Here's what you need to know about apartheid and how it came under control in South Africa and as well as who the Afrikaans are. Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group that descended from ...
His love for and studies in languages at the University of the Western Cape as well as his anti-apartheid activism, also IN Afrikaans, in the 1980s left lasting impressions on my formative years.