LONDON — Budget airline Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with ...
Tens of thousands of Afrikaners flocked to the western Cape town of Oudtshoorn on Monday for a week-long celebration of their language at the Little Karoo National Arts Festival. Now in its 11th year, ...
South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory. The country has 11 official languages, and many say ...
As the fallout from UK airline Ryanair's decision to test South African passport holders' general knowledge in Afrikaans continues, the Afrikaans Language Board says the quiz had major implications ...
Language is at the core of every society and culture. This has been the case for millennia. Without language, there is no communication. It is unimaginable how social relations and day-to-day ...
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".