Signs written in Afrikaans advertised traditional foods: braided "koeksister" doughnuts, cinnamon-sprinkled "melkkos" ...

i cut my tongue on a broken country explores the Asian American diaspora, queerness, girlhood, and the relationships between and within them, pushing and pulling on the boundaries of identity and ...

According to the beauty queen and author, who has since adopted an American accent, Tim "can't hold his own completely" when speaking her mother tongue ... native language, Afrikaans. Speaking to Us ...

The South African Academy for Science and Arts annually presents a symposium for a select group of postgraduate students during which they can present their final workpieces in their mother tongue, ...

“Mr Albanese in the Senate negotiates with the Greens on a daily basis,” she said. “Whether or not he says it was a slip of the tongue, it is irrelevant. We know exactly what the next Government is ...

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Note to Editors: This statement follows protest action by the DA outside the office of Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande in Pretoria. Please find attached pictures here, here, here and here.

English is after all the colonial language par excellence. Afrikaans, on the other hand, has home-grown bona-fides: first spoken as a Dutch creole, it was at first rejected by the settler ...