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Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Over in South Africa, the traditionally Afrikaans-medium Stellenbosch University, David Beresford reports in the Guardian Weekly , is shifting away from its traditions, with bilingual courses taking precedent over Afrikaans-unilingual courses and knowledge of the Afrikaans language no longer being a requirement for graduation. One Afrikaner historian warns that Afrikaans risks being displaced from...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
A new species of dinosaur that roamed the Earth 197 million years ago, likely an ancestor of the enormous brontosaurus, has been discovered in South Africa, scientists said Wednesday. Dubbed Aardonyx Celestae, a combination of Afrikaans and Greek that means "Earth Claw", fossils of the seven-metre (23-feet) long dinosaur were uncovered in the central Free State province by a team of post-graduate...
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Italy Down Under (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Afrikaans is an Indo-European language, derived from Dutch and classified as Low Franconian Germanic, mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia, with smaller numbers of speakers in Botswana, Angola, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Zambia. Due to emigration and migrant labour, there are possibly over 100,000 Afrikaans speakers in the United Kingdom, with other substantial communities found in Brussels,...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga could have to explain herself to a judge if a 2008 Johannesburg matric candidate does not get her matric certificate by November 2, Afrikaans lobby group AfriForum said on Friday.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Eugene Terre'Blanche, who fought against the end of apartheid, revives notorious AWB group in push for separate republic A notorious white supremacist from South Africa's apartheid era has revealed plans to rally far right groups and apply to the United Nations for a breakaway Afrikaner republic. Eugene Terre'Blanche was the voice of hardline opposition to the end of white minority rule in the early...
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Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=126785&d=27&m=9&y=2009 (via shareaholic) The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily Sunday 27 September 2009 (08 Shawwal 1430) Let’s break free from partition straitjacket John V. Whitbeck | Arab News — The desperate and desultory New York “summit” among US President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
By Pieter Mulder FF+ leader, original article in Beeld with regards to Heritage Day Debates Two viewpoints have been heard from government circles about this in the past decade. The one viewpoint was developed by the Thabo Mbeki intellectuals and was again recently voiced by Dr. Nico Smith. This view is in short the following: Europeans came from Europe to colonize Africa. When they started experiencing...
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Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
March downtown in Detroit opposing the Israeli siege of Gaza on January 8, 2009. Thousands protested in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos An Open Letter to Mr. Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa By Dr. Haidar Eid - Gaza September 10, 2009 Dear Mr. President, I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance...
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The Right Perspective (Free subscription) | 09/13/2009
The Right Perspective reported extensively on the refugee claim by Brandon Huntley (a white South African) in Canada. The following post is a prime example of how white citizens are treated in South Africa today. Hat tip ILSA and CensorbugbearReports. Translated from the Afrikaans newspaper daily Beeld. You will not find too many articles like this [...]
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
By Dr. Haidar Eid - Gaza "Dear Mr. President, I am writing to express my dismay and disappointment with both your attendance at the national conference of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies - a racist organization by any standards - as well as the content of your speech at that forum. I am a naturalised South African of Palestinian origin . I spent more than five years in Johannesburg,...
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I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
Hat Tip: Anon: Read this article and then just imagine what the state of education is going to be five years into the future, after our honourable minister of Higher Education, Doctor Blade Nzimande is finished with it. Hell, he has not even read this report yet. He does not even know about it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Varsity students can’t read THE shocking state of South Africa’s...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/20/2009
DETERMINED to avoid the shambles that dominated the British and Irish Lions tour in which Springbok coach Peter de Villiers's whacky comments overshadowed the fantastic series victory, the South African Rugby Union (Saru) has given the coach leave to speak his native Afrikaans at press conferences.
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
By Dhruba Adhikary http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KG09Df01.html KATHMANDU - The issue of official language(s) has never been as sensitive in Nepal as it is now. While the interim statute maintains the continuity of Nepali, in Devnagari script, as the language of official communication, some members of the 601-strong Constituent Assembly want to add 11 more languages to the list, giving them...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
FROM being the rather dowdy owner of mainly Afrikaans newspapers and some glossy magazines, Naspers is now primarily a pay-TV and internet company.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/06/2009
THE admission policy of Hoerskool Ermelo was nonracial because the school admitted pupils of all races willing to receive tuition in Afrikaans, the school and its governing body have said in a written submission to the Constitutional Court.
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