EDITORIAL | Instead of mocking Afrikaans, let’s get serious about reviving SA’s true dying languages
Language and heritage should be guarded and passed on to the next generation, not ridiculed and allowed to go extinct
17 November 2022 - 21:25
While Charlize Theron is joking about only 44 people speaking Afrikaans, neglecting the more than 8-million people who use it around the world, the focus should be less on whether the language itself is dying and rather on what is being done to preserve all African languages in ICU...
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