Word: afrikaanse
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English is the most widely used of South Africa's 11 official languages, but visitors are likely to encounter several regional tongues - Afrikaans in the Western Cape, Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, Zulu in KwaZulu-Natal, Sotho in the Free State - when traveling through the country. There's also a...
For now, Nkosi is focusing on language acquisition. “I speak Afrikaans, very bad Greek, bad French, bad Zulu,” she says. “I’m going to remedy at least the Greek and the Zulu in the next few years.?...
Eight years after the first post- apartheid elections, most of South Africa's Afrikaners - the three million whites of European, mainly Dutch, origin - have put their days of struggle for racial exclusivity and independence in the past. But not all of them. A small but determined band of Afrikaners is...
After the 1994 election that resulted in majority rule by Nelson Mandela's A.N.C., the National Party under former president F.W. de Klerk was part of a government of national unity. It was an uneasy alliance that lasted only two years. Now, calling themselves the New National Party and under...
In a speech in the House of Assembly in October that got a standing ovation from A.N.C. legislators, N.N.P. leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk waxed lyrical about being part of "the building team" of a South African renaissance. In reply, President Thabo Mbeki gushed that Van Schalkwyk had shown inspiring "commitment...