"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 ...

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 ...

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

Do you?" she added. Her comments reflect the growing influence of South Africa's conservative Afrikaner groups who are conducting global lobbying campaigns to support their message that white ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...