100th Anniversary of Afrikaans as an Official Language - With Prof. Lolie Makhubu-Badenhorst and Prof Hein Willemse
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The status of Afrikaans as an indigenous South African language has long been a contentious matter not only within the Afrikaans speech community itself, but also within the wider South African speech community. Since its inception, Afrikaans has been weighed down with various negative connotations, such as “colonial language”, “language of the oppressor” and “white man’s language”. As is the case with many languages with a colonial history, even English, Afrikaans indeed has a dark past due to its use as an instrument of oppression during Apartheid. This past, however, is only one part of the history of Afrikaans. Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi was joined by Chairperson of the Pan South African Language Board, Prof. Lolie Makhubu-Badenhorst.
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