Karnataka introduces a bilingual dictionary in select Kannada medium government schools to ease learning foreign vocabulary. About 8,000 copies were distributed to 100 schools in a pilot programme ...

A new local ridehailing platform has launched in the form of Wanatu, which has stirred social media with its policy of only hiring Afrikaans-speaking drivers. Currently only available in Centurion ...

Launched in October 2024 and funded by private investors, Wanatu requires Afrikaans proficiency for its drivers. While the platform’s app accommodates English-speaking users through a ...

👀 They usually exclaim: “Oh, so then you speak Zuid-Afrikaans, right? That’s basically Dutch!” — to which I smile and nod. I’ve decided to invoke the use of the Google Dictionary to best explain this ...

A VIRAL TikTok video, in which a mother, Awelani Khoaisi from Pretoria, expresses frustration about her Grade 1 son's placement at an all-Afrikaans-speaking school, has shifted from complaints to ...

A speech therapist's advice on raising a bilingual child We spoke to speech therapist Monal Gajjar about bringing up bilingual kids and she answered some common questions. How can I develop ...

A man imagined how an American speaking Afrikaans would sound, and his video was a hit with South Africans The content creator went viral as he put a twist on Afrikaans amid a frenzy over Afrikaner ...

The new South African E-hailing app Wanatu – nicknamed “Afrikaans Uber” – launched in Gauteng late last year is fast becoming a hit amongst residents. According to its founders ...

The Akademia Afrikaans-only university in South Africa is looking forward to a boom year in 2025. Having shown remarkable growth over the last decade and a half since its inception, there are new ...

A recently launched South African e-hailing service dubbed Wanatu has the tongues wagging for its policy of only employing drivers who can speak Afrikaans. However, the new platform, dubbed Wanatu, ...

Launching late last year, the e-hailing service Wanatu (based on the Afrikaans expression 'waarnatoe') is dedicated to Afrikaans-speaking drivers to "restore the dignity" of the community. PAY ...

Contributions welcome – please submit an issue or PR! In this package we aim to devise a cohesive interface for abstract dictionaries (or associative maps), having the common supertype ...