Jonathan Jansen Afrikaans has become its own worst enemy
Living in Stellenbosch, I find myself moving constantly between the beauty of the Afrikaans language and its biting chauvinism.
Afrikaans can be perplexing if you’re black and not a native speaker of the language...
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