Hollywood star Charlize Theron says her mother tongue, Afrikaans, is 'a dying language'. But many South Africans, who do speak Afrikaans, are not happy. Read more 👉
Afrikaans is highly politicised in South Africa because of its role during the decades of white-minority rule when a series of racist policies, known as apartheid, were used to suppress the country's black majority.
The imposition of the language in schools was the main reason behind the 1976 Soweto uprising against the apartheid regime, in which at least 170 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren.
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