Within the domain of higher education, the decline of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction comes on the back of a more fundamental shift: The gradual erasure of the longstanding white institutional ...

So #SONA2019 is currently trending worldwide on Twitter, and it’s pretty obvious why. But if you gaze further down the social network’s top trends on Thursday night, you’ll see “Afrikaans“. Yes.

But high-level English, Afrikaans and English-Afrikaans bilingualism are cultural capital, or the correlates of relative privilege. Recent critics of the Constitutional Court judgments have tended to ...

Umalusi — the quality assurance in education and training body — has raised concerns that some provinces have a shortage of Afrikaans markers. This was revealed by Mafu Rakometsi, Umalusi’s chief ...

Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at tertiary level came under debate at the Constitutional Court on Thursday over Stellenbosch University’s decision to adopt a language policy that gives ...

Finance minister Tito Mboweni ruffled feathers after tweeting that he disagrees with the removal of Afrikaans as a medium language of instruction at the University of Pretoria. I publicly, and in my ...

Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...

Based on advice from the local South African Police and security Services, Emerald Resort & Casino has made the decision to cancel the Afrikaans in die Vaal concert on 30 March 2019. Mark Hands, the ...