Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, is facing accusations of racism for requiring South African customers to prove their citizenship by taking a written test in Afrikaans, a derivative of the Dutch ...

Oscar-winning actor Charlize Theron has sparked a firestorm in her native South Africa for suggesting that Afrikaans, a language descended from Dutch settlers, was heading for oblivion. "There's about ...

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Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me ...

AFTER Nelson Mandela’s ascension to power in 1994, South Africa added nine official languages to English and Afrikaans. The winner, though, was English, which has become the unrivaled lingua franca.

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".

A South African man in the US went viral after butchering Afrikaans in an interview, leaving Mzansi amused as the clip sparks ...

DIE ANTWOORD was in town last week. The South African band raps and sings in a hypnotic mixture of Afrikaans and English, switching constantly between the two. In the music video for a popular song, ...

Ryanair made Dinesh Joseph take a test in Afrikaans when flying back from a vacation. The airline has said it is issuing the tests to guard against fraudulent South African passports. This is how ...

Charlize Theron, 47, landed herself in hot water earlier this week after making her views on Afrikaans public during an interview. The South African actress, who was born in Benoni, Gauteng Province, ...