An Irish budget airline is removing a language requirement for South African passport holders traveling to the United Kingdom. Ryanair had been making those passengers pass a written test in Afrikaans ...

What are the sentiments of the Afrikaans market? JOS KUPER provides valuable insights gleaned from in-depth research.

Hollywood star Charlize Theron has been called out for saying her mother tongue Afrikaans is a “dying language”. The South African-American actor and producer diminished the language on the Smartless ...

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...

Language is at the core of every society and culture. This has been the case for millennia. Without language, there is no communication. It is unimaginable how social relations and day-to-day ...

A viral throwback clip of Nelson Mandela speaking fluent Afrikaans reignites South Africa's debate on his legacy, sparking ...

Was own editorial policy followed? The Afrikanerbond took note of the unexplained and ill-considered decision by the SABC to ...

Charlize Theron has been facing some backlash for claiming that her first language, Afrikaans, is dying out. The 47-year-old actor opened up about growing up in South Africa while appearing on ...

A viral Xhosa lesson at Stellenbosch University had shown students learning isiXhosa through humour and culture, sparking ...

LONDON — Budget airline Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with ...

Wilmot James is a professor and senior adviser to the Pandemic Center at the School of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. He is a former South African member of Parliament. My ...