As the fallout from UK airline Ryanair's decision to test South African passport holders' general knowledge in Afrikaans continues, the Afrikaans Language Board says the quiz had major implications ...

ATM director Michael Jonas and council chair Jean Meiring write that the bad old days when the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument (ATM) was associated with Afrikaner nationalism are long gone and ...

In his work, Alexander created a powerful philosophical vision of a country unified by multilingualism and the development of indigenous languages. He considered this fundamental to the development of ...

Today marks a significant milestone in South Africa’s linguistic history—100 years since Afrikaans was officially recognised as a state language. While many celebrate this centenary, it also prompts a ...

South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory. The country has 11 official languages, and many say ...

Ryanair did not say whether it carried out similar tests for other nationalities Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is still insisting that all South Africans travelling on flights to the UK must ...

Professor Michael le Cordeur is Emeritus Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and chair of the Foundation for Empowerment through Afrikaans. This article is an Opinion, which presents the ...

As many South Africans celebrated the 100th-year of existence of the Afrikaans language, some doubt it would be around another year, or exist in a significant way. But EFF MP Carl Niehaus loves ...

Afrikaans is marking its centenary today, having been recognised as an official language on 8 May 1925. Previously, only English and Dutch had been national languages. It was in the Cape that ...

There were mixed opinions and feelings by citizens and experts about the place of Afrikaans in society. In recent years the language has come under fire by various departments and political parties.