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  • The folks were predominantly white afrikaans and we were the only coloured folk there.

    Not all coloureds speak like dis « Digital immigrant 2009

  • In afrikaans this bird is called a 'Troupant' not sure if it's the official name.

    janedoe0 Diary Entry janedoe0 2007

  • The ANC-led Northern Province government rejected requests to establish separate schools for 'afrikaans-speaking' and 'english-speaking students'

    Contents 1996

  • Such an argument can only come from people who want to maintain the privileged status of english and afrikaans at the expense of languages spoken by the majority of South

    ANC ON NEW LANGUAGE POLICY IN SCHOOLS 1995

  • Such an argument can only come from people who want to maintain the privileged status of english and afrikaans at the expense of languages spoken by the majority of South

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • But to the afrikaans press the 1990's presented a different challenge.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Without the VRYE WEEKBLAD, there is little promise that in the transition to democracy and black majority rule that the afrikaans press will reflect anything but the embattled bitterness of an audience whose political influence is waning and whose political beliefs are in disarray.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The political fragmentation of the afrikaans speaking population and its loss of a monopoly over state power in the last four years, posed questions for a press which over the years had grown used to being the faithful mouthpiece of the

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • During the 1980's, only the alternative VRYE WEEKBLAD, started with a single computer and a small bank loan, served afrikaans speakers who wanted more critical and penetrating political coverage.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • The greatest irony of the afrikaans press in the 1990's has been the demise of the VRYE WEEKBLAD, killed by a judgement which held that the paper's exposure of general Lothar Neethlings 'hit squad activities was not published in the public's interest, but as a ploy for wider readership and profitability.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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