Private Afrikaans university Akademia has officially started enrolling full-time students at its new Paarl campus in the Western Cape, setting the stage for the 2026 academic year. The campus, located ...

For the first time since 2018, Afrikaans is Groot (AIG) is returning to the Mother City... this time for a centenary spectacular. Get ready to dance the night away (if you're one of the lucky ...

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State broadcaster SABC doesn’t seem to have a vendetta against the Afrikaans language – but is so broke it cannot pay for the productions. One of the Afrikaans shows, Voetspore, could soon face the ...

A new local ridehailing platform has launched in the form of Wanatu, which has stirred social media with its policy of only hiring Afrikaans-speaking drivers. Currently only available in Centurion and ...

A recently launched South African e-hailing service dubbed Wanatu has the tongues wagging for its policy of only employing drivers who can speak Afrikaans. However, the new platform, dubbed Wanatu, ...

Minority interest group, AfriForum, said that stopping the BELA Act was the biggest issue for the Afrikaans community since the turn of democracy. PRETORIA - Minority interest group, AfriForum, said ...

A legal battle is brewing over the future of Afrikaans schools in South Africa, which Solidarity warned is under threat because of a new education bill. Solidarity is concerned about the impact of the ...

It’s official, South Africa’s Afrikaans accent has been voted the second sexiest accent in the world. Out of over 7,000 languages in the world, Enjoy Travel’s 1.5 million readers awarded Afrikaans the ...

The imam put his foot in it. It was in 1985 in the Boorhaanol mosque in Bo-Kaap and he delivered his sermon in English. It immediately drew bitter recrimination as the older congregants of this mosque ...

Real estate development company Kanton revealed detailed plans of a new campus for Solidarity’s private Afrikaans university Akademia in Pretoria on Thursday. The comprehensive R3-billion facility ...