Language is essential to the notion of decolonising education. This formed the backbone of a discussion at the Breaking Down Borders Africa Youth Summit. Dr Edith Phaswana, a senior lecturer at the ...

Charlize Theron is very proud of where she comes from. The Hollywood A-list celeb has made it her mission to ensure that her millions of social media fans learn Afrikaans, which is her home language.

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".

A film about alleged racial discrimination at Stellenbosch University has been watched more than 250,000 times on YouTube Black students at an elite South African university go viral online, with ...

The Patagonian desert in southern Argentina is a harsh environment. Little seems to thrive on its seemingly endless red plains and parched land. Yet in this unlikely place there is a unique bilingual ...

A Pretoria mother’s viral TikTok video about her Grade 1 son’s unexpected placement in an Afrikaans-speaking school has sparked an outpouring of support from across South Africa. When Awelani Khoaisi, ...

IF Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has learnt one lesson from the dismal European campaign, it is that his senior players need to be properly managed.... IF Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has ...

Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposure and experience in global political economic affairs. He was educated at the London School of Economics, and ...

Black students at an elite South African university go viral online, with their complaint about enduring racism The controversy began when a film was posted on YouTube, external chronicling the ...