All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Afrikaans version of the classical Greek play, Oedipous, will be performed in early August at the National Theatre of Namibia, it was announced in a press statement.
IOL (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Kaapse Son has breached the press code and must apologise to Saldanha Bay municipality traffic officer Superintendent Ntsikelelo Michael Songatshu.
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
The staff and pupils of Grosvenor Girls' High School on the Bluff are reeling in shock at the loss of a popular and dedicated teacher.
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A Durban school accused of teaching a boy "kitchen Zulu" changed its language policy after the child's mother complained, the Durban Equality Court has heard.
Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A language expert who claims her son was taught "kitchen isiZulu" at Durban High School (DHS), said her son now also dislikes Afrikaans, because it was force-fed to him at a difficult level by the school.
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Call me names but Gay is not OKAY....What the hell is this, the chorus line to some pride song mixed to a disco beat. I find it ironic that homosexuals are proud to be gay but you shouldn't call them gay.So how does this work? Is gay the new kaffir?It sure seems like it. The moment a word doesn't sound right we choose to associate it with something bad and very evil and take the people using the word...
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
So who is That Famous Guy. He is a pop superstar who believes that the media is against him and ignoring him. His debut digital album had millions of downloads but no one has ever heard one of the songs.It contain hits like:Look mom I'm famous Who do I have to screw to get some attention over here - and Don't take a picture when I'm having a bad hair day Yes, this could be any celebrity on the cover...
An accidental blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
A collection of the academic publications of South African reformational philosopher H G Stoker is now available on CD. Full details are here though they are in Afrikaans. Only a few articles on the CD are in English. The cost is 100 rand
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Durban High School has been accused of "promoting the subjugation of indigenous languages".
seth's blog (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Check out this tool from Pike. He calls it the l10n dashboard. It’s a great snapshot into the state of Mozilla l10n community. I’d say it’s a work in progress with a way to go, but so far, it’s very well put together. As our team tries to improve efficiency and outreach/service to localizers in our [...]
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
South Africa - Pretoria- based Blond Productions employed six new Robe ColorSpot 700E ATs plus six ColorSpot 250E ATs to the latest series of the epic Afrikaans games show Noot vir Noot. ...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
After 7 months or so in Africa it was time for a bit of civilisation in South Africa... kind of It really is a melting pot of cultures with the whiteAfrikaans generally accepted as responsible for Aparteid and the whiteEnglish supposedly more open minded and accepting but still reaped the rewards of the oppression not really seeing eyetoeye... the so called coloured people mixed rac
So Close (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I have just poured myself a glass of wine and it is only 3:23 in the afternoon. And I don’t even care. I’ve had such a KAK (Afrikaans for fucking terrible) week, that if it is either wine or hacking...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
South Africa celebrates the birthday of its deeply respected former leader, a symbol of reconciliation in a nation now torn by doubt
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
NELSON Mandela yesterday celebrated his 90th birthday in his rural birthplace in the Transkei as a torrent of nostalgic praise poured out for him in a South Africa currently t
