Hoërskool Menlopark has been named South Africa’s top co-ed Afrikaans high school, with an average of 74% and 2.9 distinctions per matric candidate. This was revealed by the Solidarity Support Centre ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

The Department of Basic Education says it's noticing a nationwide trend of Afrikaans former Model C schools introducing English as a medium of instruction. But members of parliament's basic education ...

Die Papier will be published every Friday in both print and digital formats, delivering weekly news and the weekend’s events, community stories, business developments, sport, culture and lifestyle ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The U.S. government has officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they are expected to land in the U ...

At the weekend, South Africans watching SABC 2 were surprised to see that without prior notice that the Afrikaans TV news bulletin did not air on Saturday and Sunday at the regularly scheduled 18:15 ...

JOHANNESBURG - The SABC has explained why the Afrikaans television news bulletin over the weekend was not broadcast, saying this was due to a scheduling error. The ...

A recent study by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on South African culture over the last decade has revealed fascinating trends into how we live, worship, speak and marry. South Africa remains a ...

Recently launched Afrikaans e-hailing service Wanatu could face legal trouble over its policy of only hiring Afrikaans-speaking drivers, according to attorney and labour law specialist Craig Kirchmann ...