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Buys, the award-winning novel by Willem Anker, uses lines without credit from the Irish writer - not the first such literary controversy it has raised.
The famous writer turns 70 this year. She is driven by how South Africans see and hear one another.
It’s been in existence since the 1500s but the Kaaps language, synonymous with Cape Town, has never had a dictionary until now.
What are the visions that reflect the diverse values that nature holds for people?
Research has shown that African immigrants in South Africa refrain from speaking their own languages and try to speak local languages to blend in.
The FF+‘s constituency is overwhelmingly Afrikaner white Protestants. But, it appears to have made inroads among coloured conservatives.
A progressive Afrikaans newspaper will be relaunched soon. But Vrye Weekblad can’t trade on its history alone. It will need to consider the challenges of the present and the future.
Afrikaners in post-apartheid South Africa struggle with a historical sense of inferiority that reinforces their whiteness.
Raising the status of the African languages to that of official languages in South Africa post-1994 led to an explosion of translation and interpreting work in local and foreign languages.
Ethical engagement in multilingual communication is about mutual respect. More importantly, it’s about shaping a shared future through face-to-face communication.
Rock music against military conscription during 1980s South Africa resonated with wider fault lines in Afrikaner society - this as the apartheid regime’s grip on power started to slip.
Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government’s ploy to construct it as a “white language”, with a “white history”, denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
The idea of white victimhood played an important part in Donald Trump’s rise. The South African brand of white supremacy has made a tangible contribution to this narrative of victimhood.
Next year South Africa’s Stellenbosch University will celebrate its centenary. A recent conference to discuss the anniversary has reminded everyone present that knowledge is a fickle mistress.
A pioneering documentary about South African punks, Fokofpolisiekar, doesn’t only focus on the band, but also illuminates the evolution of the documentary form.
Black Consciousness activist, Afrikaans poet and revered academic Adam Small has passed away. In his large volume of work he gave voice to the downtrodden – those marginalised by apartheid.
Many broadcasters around the world enforce local content quotas to ensure their television industries’ survival. But the success of these measures varies widely.
Those who don’t want Stellenbosch University to make English the main language of instruction have invoked South Africa’s Constitution - but the assumptions underlying their arguments are false.
There’s an ongoing debate about how best to promote multilingualism in schools. But is this debate relevant when it comes to teaching science?
Top contributors
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Professor of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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University of Cape Town
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Maseno University
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Distinguished Professor Faculty of Law, Stellenbosch University
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Distinguished Professor and H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD), Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer in Directing, Producing, Entrepreneurship, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Screen Production and Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
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Associate professor, Global Change Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
