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".

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 ...

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 ...

Part 2 in a two-part series: Part 1 can be read here. On the eve of South Africa’s democratic dispensation, a language deal was reached between the incumbent National Party and the aspirant African ...

A young man started teaching Afrikaans on TikTok but South Africans joked that it's December and they'll start learning in ...

In the wake of South Africa's long and complex struggle against apartheid, the call for genuine transformation in education is more pressing than ever. One of the critical conversations that needs to ...

This year, South Africa commemorates the centenary of Afrikaans as an official language, a milestone that ought to inspire pride but instead lays bare a troubling reality. What was once a language of ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ryanair is making South African nationals take a general knowledge test in Afrikaans to prove their nationality ...