Word: afrikaanse
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Even with that large proviso in his plans, Botha's referendum has created deep fissures among white South Africans. During the bitter three-month campaign, those divisions erupted in a bitter broedertwis (Afrikaans for fraternal feud), while the referendum became known as the Great Divide.
Indeed, far from deterring ANC activities, the hangings are likely to bring increased violence. This week marks the seventh anniversary of the riots that began in Soweto in June 1976 over a government regulation requiring the use of the Afrikaans language in the schools. Over a period of 16 months...
THERE are several "types" of South African university: white English-speaking, white Afrikaans, language. Black, Asian, and "colored." The South Africans draw no hard and fast lines between these colleges, but basic distinctions remain At the Afrikaans universities (Afrikaaners control the Government), less than one half of one percent of...
The opposition Progressive Federal Party, a bastion of South Africa's English-speaking white minority, attracted enough support at the polls from liberal Afrikaners to increase its parliamentary strength by nine, to 26. On the right, the ultraconservative Herstigte Nasionale Party (H.N.P.) drew 191,249 votes, compared with only...
De Villiers is a correspondent for the Johannesburg Sunday Times, the most widely circulated paper in South Africa. Although more whites speak Afrikaans than English, English-language newspapers outnumber their Afrikaans counterparts. The Pretoria-educated de Villiers notes that the "opposition press" has long spoken out against the more heinous...