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 ...

I am an Afrikaans speaker. The language of my childhood, of family conversations, of the literature that shaped me, and of the intimate spaces where I first learned to think and feel, is Afrikaans.

This is South Africa’s top co-educational Afrikaans high school, recording matric results that put it ahead of hundreds of ...

Embraced by South African bands like Die Antwoord, Afrikaans, the lingua franca of the reviled former apartheid government, seems to be making a comeback. Photo: FilmMagic/Getty Images A heavily ...

A top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English. The University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to "transform the culture" to make it "truly South ...

Professor Michael le Cordeur is Emeritus Professor of Education at Stellenbosch University and chair of the Foundation for Empowerment through Afrikaans. This article is an Opinion, which presents the ...

Award-winning Hemelbesem is a black Afrikaans hip-hop artist. Facebook The language of Afrikaans remains a contested issue in South Africa. The controversy over the medium of instruction 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 ...

Those of you, who know me, will know two things: I can smell nonsense a mile away and, if you're the one presenting an argument, you had better bring facts. I work in an environment where, if I don't ...

Simon Parker is a multi-award-winning travel writer and filmmaker, and The Telegraph’s cycling expert who has reported from over 100 countries. He has written three books on bicycle touring with a ...