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...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 hybrid dialect called Fanagalo (do like this) that dates back to the days when black Africans were recruited for work in the white-owned Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say What? | 4/11/2004 | See Source »

...salute and a red-carpet greeting from South Africa's State President Jim Fouche, the emotional Banda seemed delighted to be there. Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here." Later Banda led South African officials on a tour of the mine offices where he had worked as a youth 50 years ago. "It hasn't changed much," he noted. "They still have fish on Wednesdays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Red Carpet for a Black Man | 8/30/1971 | See Source »

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