Ambassador Carl Niehaus, an EFF Member of Parliament, argues against the establishment of an Afrikaans university like Akademia, contending that it threatens social cohesion and perpetuates racial ...

Online school adds KABV Grade 12, IEB Grade 11 and a school readiness year for the 2027 academic yearJohannesburg, GAUTENG, Aug. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- From the 2027 academic year, learners at ...

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 ...

As debates intensify over the establishment of Akademia, a new Afrikaans university, questions about its place in a diverse ...

Muwombi, who currently lives in Cape Town, has decided that he wants to learn how to speak Afrikaans before the end of the ...

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English ...

Hollywood star Charlize Theron has faced a mountain of criticism for calling her mother tongue Afrikaans "a dying language". Theron joked it was spoken by "about 44 people" and was "not very helpful".

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. At the foot of the Hawequas Mountains near Paarl, a slice of South African history is on the market for R8-million. It’s an urgent sale. The ...

Cape Town mom, Nuriyah Gallow shares a video of her daughter making up her version of Afrikaans and it leaves social media ...