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As the fallout from UK airline Ryanair's decision to test South African passport holders' general knowledge in Afrikaans continues, the Afrikaans Language Board says the quiz had major implications ...

Tens of thousands of Afrikaners flocked to the western Cape town of Oudtshoorn on Monday for a week-long celebration of their language at the Little Karoo National Arts Festival. Now in its 11th year, ...

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African university had to shut down its campuses Friday after violent protests over the use of Afrikaans as an official teaching language — a demonstration that echoed ...

I have a love-hate relationship with Afrikaans. I really do. But language has always been an emotive issue. Understandably so. It’s called your mother tongue with good reason. And who wouldn’t feel ...

We never fabricated apartheid. The landing of Jan van Riebeck at the Cape in 1652 made it very difficult for the Dutch and Khoisan people to communicate. In this engagement, a language had to be born ...

LONDON — Budget airline Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with ...

South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory. The country has 11 official languages, and many say ...