Related to British South Africa:Afrikaans South Africa A country of southern Africa on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Originally inhabited by the San and Khoikhoi, the region was settled by various Bantu peoples c. 1500. European settlement began with the Dutch in the mid-1600s. The region ...
Relying on several recent studies of English language variety in South Africa by South African sociolinguists, in particular a study by L.W. Lanham (1982) in which he distinguishes between British English (R.P.), respectable South African English and, on the bottom of the social scale, ...
British South Africadoi:doi:10.1080/00369229608732885FortG. SeymourScottish Geographical Journal
English has been spoken in South Africa for more than 200 years, at least since the British military seized the Cape of Good Hope settlement from the Dutch in 1795 to keep the Cape out of the hands of revolutionary France, then a Dutch ally....
Now in her 80s, Claudia was born in South Africa and had grown up in the province then known as Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Of British ancestry, she identifies as ‘white South African’, and remembers being advised by the passport office of the new National Party government of 1948 that...
This chapter will show that despite the efforts of some British policymakers to deploy cultural diplomacy in South Africa, there were many barriers to its use, particularly beyond educational contact. It analyses the impact of the Musicians Union and Act
South Africa is the Rainbow Nation, a title that captures the country's cultural and ethnic diversity. The population of South Africa is one of the ...
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Robert Sobukwe was one of South Africa’s greatest but forgotten heroes of the struggle for human rights and nonracialism. The online dictionary of South African English By Mary Alexander on 1 November 2024 Mixed with over a dozen African languages for over two centuries, spiced by imports...
Ranging over more than a century from the 1870s to the present, it surveys uses of the term 'British' in imperial historiography and draws most of its empirical evidence from the unusual case of South Africa. The paper eschews 'ethnic' or 'racial' definitions of Britishness and proposes ...