Analysis - 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 ...

"Our colour here is not the right colour now in South Africa," Le Roux says, echoing the complaint of many impoverished whites, mostly Afrikaners who are descendants of early Dutch and French settlers ...

Residents argue that they wish to preserve their Afrikaner cultural heritage and protect themselves from crime in South ...

That's what AfriForum, a group that campaigns for the interests of Afrikaners in South Africa, appears to have done. It has estimated a farm murder rate of 156 per 100,000 that has been widely ...

The same as an individual has a biography which deposits their identity, a collective has an identity which is memorialised through their political experience. It is in this sense that biographies are ...

Their message was simple - white Afrikaners are under siege and needed to protect their interests as a minority group in South Africa. Hard lessons need to be learned by South Africa's political ...

white settlers (Afrikaners), and native Africans. Victorious in a series of ferocious battles, Britain forms the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion of the British Empire, in May.

The Afrikaners had a restart in their politics ... as necessary for our peace and our prosperity. There is room in South Africa for all. * Lorenzo A. Davids is a leader and veteran in the social ...

In the run up to the creation of the Union of South Africa, the Cape Colony was alone in sending delegates who weren't European to the constitutional conference. But the Afrikaners were determined ...

Breyten Breytenbach, who died Sunday, was one of South Africa's most honoured writers, who found beauty in his Afrikaans language but was horrified at the white supremacy imposed by his government.

I no longer consider myself an Afrikaner." In 1960 he left South Africa for a self-imposed exile, mostly in Europe, but he continued to be a vocal critic of the apartheid regime. He worked in ...