“No Afrikaans writer has yet tried to offer a serious political challenge to the system … We have no one with enough guts, it seems, to say ‘no’,”said Brink in 1970, nine years before he finished “A Dry White Season”, his most famous book. “All I know is that I must do ...
The case of South Africa where nine African languages are recognized as co-official languages with English and Afrikaans in the country's Constitution may be an exception. Even in countries where it seems the national language issue has been resolved, English has appeared inevitable. In Rwanda ...
All 13 studies included BWS, and participants in these studies spoke different language combinations such asKannada-English (n = 3), Igbo-English (n = 1), Afrikaans-English (n = 1), French-English (n = 1), German-English (n = 1), Mandarin-English (n = ...
Afrikaans: O God! Daar's 'n byl in my kop! AlbanianA1: O Zot! Kam sakice ne koke! Alsatian: Lever Gott! Es esch a Axe en miner Kopf! AmharicA2: Fetariye! Metrebiya bechinklatie wusit ale. ApeA3: Kree-gur! arad zor wo b'yat ArabicA4: Ya Allah! Be fass bi rassi!
After this 'removal', Orania was transformed into a small Afrikaner volkstaat, aplace exclusively white and Afrikaans. In 2005, the new community discovered that the town's previous inhabitants had lodged a land claim with the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights. This article analyses the ...