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 ...

Part 2 in a two-part series: Part 1 can be read here. On the eve of South Africa’s democratic dispensation, a language deal was reached between the incumbent National Party and the aspirant African ...

The imam put his foot in it. It was in 1985 in the Boorhaanol mosque in Bo-Kaap and he delivered his sermon in English. It immediately drew bitter recrimination as the older congregants of this mosque ...

A young man started teaching Afrikaans on TikTok but South Africans joked that it's December and they'll start learning in ...

IN-DEPTH:Charlize Theron made a controversial comment during an interview this week which stirred up a hot debate in her home country over her mother tongue, Afrikaans. Herman Eloff speaks to experts ...

Novus Media has announced the launch of Die Papier, a weekly Afrikaans newspaper that will begin publication on 6 March 2026.imageEvery FridayDie Papier will be published every Friday in both print ...

A top South African university has dropped Afrikaans as its official language in favour of English. The University of Pretoria told the BBC it needed to "transform the culture" to make it "truly South ...

Sandra Liebenberg receives research funding from the National Research Foundation. She writes here in her personal capacity and her views should not be ascribed to the National Research Foundation.

Ryanair did not say whether it carried out similar tests for other nationalities Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is still insisting that all South Africans travelling on flights to the UK must ...

South Africans have said being forced to take tests in Afrikaans to verify their passports is ‘discrimination’. Multiple South Africans have recently had to answer general knowledge questions in ...