Embraced by South African bands like Die Antwoord, Afrikaans, the lingua franca of the reviled former apartheid government, seems to be making a comeback. Photo: FilmMagic/Getty Images A heavily ...

I am an Afrikaans speaker. The language of my childhood, of family conversations, of the literature that shaped me, and of the intimate spaces where I first learned to think and feel, is Afrikaans.

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".

First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. At the foot of the Hawequas Mountains near Paarl, a slice of South African history is on the market for R8-million. It’s an urgent sale. The ...

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. There were also two bilingual universities teaching in Afrikaans and English ...

This is South Africa’s top co-educational Afrikaans high school, recording matric results that put it ahead of hundreds of private schools at a fraction of the cost.

Afrikaans survived South Africa’s transition from apartheid, but lost the privileges of power. Will it cope with the challenges of a changing world? Yet 25 years on from the negotiated settlement that ...

Those of you, who know me, will know two things: I can smell nonsense a mile away and, if you're the one presenting an argument, you had better bring facts. I work in an environment where, if I don't ...

Simon Parker is a multi-award-winning travel writer and filmmaker, and The Telegraph’s cycling expert who has reported from over 100 countries. He has written three books on bicycle touring with a ...