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Q&A Sessions: African court ‘will be a tough job’ — Dumisa Ntsebeza

National Nicolene de Wee - 20 Feb 2021

Lawyer, author and political activist Dumisa Ntsebeza talks to Nicolene de Wee about his appointment as judge of the African Court on Human and...

Saving southern Africa’s oldest languages

Africa Simon Allison & Refiloe Seiboko - 20 Jul 2020

The decline of N|uu dates all the way back to 1652, when the first Europeans arrived by ship at the Cape of Good Hope.

Let’s reinvent Afrikaans (and ourselves) together

Article Quentin Williams - 27 Sep 2019

It is time we start talking about how we can reinvent Afrikaans through the formation of AfriKaaps

English monolingualism gains the upper hand

Article Staff Reporter - 26 Jun 2019

South Africa’s failure to encourage multilingualism undermines progress

Focus on digital content for teachers and schoolchildren

Article Corrin Varady - 17 May 2019

Education policy has always been, and will continue to be, closely related to South Africans’ social conditions

White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond

Article Lloyd Gedye - 23 Mar 2018

The radical right takes credit for alerting the world to the alleged persecution of white people in South Africa

Gauteng education department and school in court over additional placements

Article Staff Reporter - 9 Jan 2018

Hoërskool Overvaal maintains it has reached its capacity while the department said the pupils were denied places based on their language preference.

Court rules in favour of mother tongue education

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Dec 2017

Bursary scheme favours student teachers from rural areas

The strange places we misplace power

Article Staff Reporter - 6 Oct 2017

"The power we attribute to the people in whose name apartheid was made is perhaps too generous at times and too limited to the power to have things".

Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative

Article Faye Kabali-Kagwa - 29 Sep 2017

A jamboree of poets traverses the city, feels it’s pain and emerges to restore what was taken

English only at varsity is not a remedy

Article Staff Reporter - 26 May 2017

And its use doesn’t mean that education will be more inclusive and equitable

AfriKaaps is an act of reclamation

Article Quentin Williams - 15 Dec 2016

Linguistic activism is central to destigmatising and celebrating AfriKaaps.

Right-wing radicals back Pretoria University protests

Article Raeesa Pather - 10 Mar 2016

The survivalist group Kommandokorps has warned Afrikaans-speaking students at the university that their language and culture is at stake.

Afrikaners: Stand up for what is right, for our future

Article Josua Loots - 2 Mar 2016

A language is not preserved by formal applications, but rather in the home, in the arts and in literature, writes Josua Loots.

Afrikaans varsities perpetuate racial divisions

Article Staff Reporter - 2 Mar 2016

The use of a language that bars the majority of black African students - who do not understand Afrikaans - is indefensible.

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Q&A Sessions: African court ‘will be a tough job’ — Dumisa Ntsebeza

Saving southern Africa’s oldest languages

Let’s reinvent Afrikaans (and ourselves) together

English monolingualism gains the upper hand

Focus on digital content for teachers and schoolchildren

White genocide: How the big lie spread to the US and beyond

Gauteng education department and school in court over additional placements

Court rules in favour of mother tongue education

The strange places we misplace power

Poets reclaim Cape Town’s historical narrative

English only at varsity is not a remedy

AfriKaaps is an act of reclamation

Right-wing radicals back Pretoria University protests

Afrikaners: Stand up for what is right, for our future

Afrikaans varsities perpetuate racial divisions

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