Afrikaans-language

Even among the "students" themselves, their status and the terminology associated with it were complicated, especially where commitment to and engagement with the struggle against the Afrikaans-language issue and questions of who the architects of organized action had been were at stake.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Even the Afrikaans-language newspaper, Die Beeld, understood the gravity of the department's plans and published a series of articles.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Although the issue of the imposition of the Afrikaans-language policy was addressed in all of these discourses, it was done in a way and in a language that made it peripheral as a reason, unimportant, a fluke.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Afrikaans-language policy and its indifference to township residents 'protests and petitions against it.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

In addition they had exhibited "unbelievable cynicism" when they commented in Die Burger, an Afrikaans-language newspaper, on the morning after the beginning of the uprising:

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

The uprising seemed to succeed on the narrow issue of the Afrikaans-language policy: On July 6, 1976, just three weeks after the beginning of the uprising,

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

Johannesburg dailies including the Afrikaans-language Beeld, also published by Naspers and whose readership numbers are on the decline.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

The Afrikaans-language daily Die Republikein further reported that the planned invasions could be motivated by a personal vendetta of Nafwu President Asser Hendricks.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Examples included the weak position of Afrikaans, the pressure on Afrikaans-language education institutions, and the continued violence against Afrikaners and other citizens in urban and rural areas.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

JOHANNESBURG - A shark attack off the coast of Mozambique killed a 35-year-old South African woman, the Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld reported Tuesday.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1998