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 ...

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".

Ryanair did not say whether it carried out similar tests for other nationalities Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is still insisting that all South Africans travelling on flights to the UK must ...

Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron is facing fierce criticism in South Africa after saying her mother tongue, Afrikaans, is “a dying language.” The “Monster” and “Tully” star made the comments on ...

Johannesburg - "Geskik wiskundig instrumente miskien gewond" ("Suitable mathematical instruments perhaps injured"). Pupils and teachers were taken aback at these oddly-worded instructions in the ...

Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages & Literatures and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan The Patagonian desert in southern Argentina is a harsh environment. Little seems to ...

ANC national executive committee member Fébé Potgieter-Gqubule has allayed fears that the Bela Act which is to be fully implemented may kill the Afrikaans language. Speaking at a press conference ...

In Patagonia, Argentina, exists a community of Afrikaans and Spanish-speaking descendants of about 650 Afrikaners who moved to Patagonia in the 20th century. They came into conflict with the British ...