The University of South Africa (Unisa) has been ordered by the Constitutional Court to retain Afrikaans as a primary language of instruction at the institute. It will thus have to stop phasing out its ...

This is the second week of the Matric 2021 exams and some important papers are being written in the form of Afrikaans and Mathematics. This is happening in between the 1st November public holiday for ...

Does your child battle to ace Afrikaans homework? Here’s how you can help them navigate this subject. Helping your kids with their Afrikaans homework can be a frustrating experience for many parents, ...

The DA has handed over a petition during their protest outside the office of Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande in Pretoria to demand that Afrikaans be declared an indigenous language.

Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. The University of SA's (Unisa) decision in 2016 to adopt a new language policy and discontinue ...

Spotify has announced that the app and website will now support 36 additional languages, including the South African languages Afrikaans and Zulu. This brings the total supported languages in Spotify ...

Johannesburg - The return of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction at Unisa would mean privileging the language in ways that include retrenching lecturers not proficient in teaching and assessing it to ...

Higher education, science and technology minister Blade Nzimande says he recognises Afrikaans as one of SA's 11 official languages. However, he will not tolerate it being used as a means of exclusion ...

Dr Simthembile Xeketwana is a lecturer in Curriculum Studies, Faculty of Education, at Stellenbosch University. His research interest is language and education, particularly in schools. He is also the ...

In an opinion editorial published in early April, the vice-chancellor and rector, Wim de Villiers, said that 37.7% of undergraduates indicated Afrikaans as their home language, of which 49.2% opted to ...