The government is clearly determined to proceed with its present course with regard to the South African Languages Bill that will, for all practical purposes, eliminate Afrikaans as an official ...
This has led to litigation and three judgments in South Africa’s apex court, the constitutional court. Afrikaans is commonly categorised as an Indo-European language, related to Dutch. It can be more ...
Afrikaans is commonly categorised as an Indo-European language, related to Dutch. It can be more accurately described as a Creole language that developed after the Dutch colonised the Cape in 1652.
The implications of this ruling are relevant for SU and the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU Potch); and perhaps most importantly of all, for Afrikaans as a language of ...