A South African woman asked her Australian husband to sweet-talk her by speaking Afrikaans. His attempt at the language humoured his wife and online users.

As South Africa gears up to celebrate 100 years of Afrikaans as an official language, RSG (Radio Sonder Grense) is set to ...

In its answering affidavit, the education department said language could not be used to segregate pupils. The school's Afrikaans-only language policy was previously rejected by the education ...

Explore the rich tapestry of South Africa’s music scene as we celebrate the living icons who have shaped its vibrant soundscape, from traditional melodies to contemporary beats.

I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still considered his most commercially successful single in ...

The group alleges that the deputy police commissioner has instructed all police stations in the province to only take statements in English and not in any other language including Afrikaans.

Unlike the Brothers Grimm and other early folktale collectors, modern surveyors of storytelling needn’t do painstaking fieldwork – they don’t even have to stray from their computer screens ...

Afrikaans is a fascinating language deeply rooted in our nation's history. When a man from the United States shared a brief explanation about the language's origins, many South Africans weren't ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. WRITERS behind a new collection of Scottish folk tales hope their stories can act as a “powerful” means of connecting people in an era of social ...

A person with any type of dementia can have problems with language. This is because dementia can damage the parts of the brain that control language. How and when language problems develop will depend ...