Language is essential to the notion of decolonising education. This formed the backbone of a discussion at the Breaking Down Borders Africa Youth Summit. Dr Edith Phaswana, a senior lecturer at the ...

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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 ...

The Diary of Anne Frank, now universally praised as a talented young writer’s harrowing account of Jewish suffering under Nazi Germany, is also an unlikely resource for post-apartheid South Africa and ...

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 ...

Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...