The supporters of these views feel that the Afrikaner designation ( or label ) was used from the 1930s onwards as a means of unifying ( politically at least ) the white Afrikaans speakers of the Western Cape with those of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent ( whose ancestors began migrating eastward during the late 17th century and throughout the 18th century and later northward during the Great Trek of the 1830s ) in the north of South Africa, where the Boer Republics were established.

The Voortrekkers ( Afrikaans and Dutch for pioneers, literally " those who pull ahead ", " fore-trekkers ") were emigrants during the 1830s and 1840s who left the Cape Colony ( British at the time, but founded by the Dutch ) moving into the interior of what is now South Africa.

Table Bay ( Afrikaans Tafelbaai ) is a natural bay on the Atlantic Ocean overlooked by Cape Town ( founded 1652 ) and is at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula, which stretches south to the Cape of Good Hope.

Numerous new young Afrikaans singers ( soloists and groups ) released CDs and DVDs and attracted large audiences at " kunstefeeste " ( art festivals ) such as the " Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees-KKNK " in Oudtshoorn, " Aardklop " in Potchefstroom and " Innibos " in Nelspruit.

In 1976 Black school children in Soweto protested at being taught in Afrikaans, which had been pushed by the Apartheid authorities concerned at the growing refusal of the Black population to speak it.

East London ( Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, ) is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa, situated at 32. 97 ° S and 27. 87 ° E in the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality of the Eastern Cape province.

The family spoke English at home, but Coetzee spoke Afrikaans with other relatives.

Initially, the proposal was for two television channels, one in English and Afrikaans, aimed at white audiences, and another, known as TV Bantu, aimed at black viewers., but when television was finally introduced, there was only one channel.

The most commonly spoken languages at home were Afrikaans ( 44 % of households ), and Nama / Damara ( 44 %).

The most commonly spoken languages at home were Afrikaans ( 40 % of households ), Nama / Damara ( 26 %) and Oshiwambo ( 23 %).

The most commonly spoken languages at home were Oshiwambo ( 37 % of households ), Afrikaans ( 22 %), and Damara / Nama ( 21 %).

The most commonly spoken languages at home were Oshiwambo ( 37 % of households ), Afrikaans ( 24 %), and Nama / Damara ( 13 %).

According to the 2001 census, 39 % of the population speak Otjiherero languages, 27 % speak Nama / Damara and 12 % speak Afrikaans at home.

The reduced prominence of Afrikaans angered many speakers of the language, although the channel still features a significant amount of Afrikaans programming, including a news broadcast every weeknight at 19: 00 and weekends at 18: 00.

Through an opening in this dome a ray of sunlight shines at twelve o ' clock on 16 December annually, falling onto the centre of the Cenotaph, striking the words ' Ons vir Jou, Suid-Afrika ' ( Afrikaans for ' We for Thee, South Africa ').

His political career began during the late apartheid years at the Rand Afrikaans University as chairman of the Student Representative Council ( SRC ), the Afrikaanse Studentebond ( ASB ), and later of the Ruiterwag, the youth wing of the Broederbond.

In South Africa, the Afrikaans word dosent refers to any full-time university lecturer, independent of rank, as opposed to a lektor which is used to describe lecturers at Technikon and College level.

Described later as an " inner sanctum ", " an immense informal network of influence ", and by Jan Smuts as a " dangerous, cunning, political fascist organization ", in 1920 Jong Zuid Afrika now restyled as the Afrikaner Broederbond, was a grouping of 37 white men of Afrikaner ethnicity, Afrikaans language, and the Calvinist Dutch Reformed faith, who shared cultural, semi-religious, and deeply political objectives based on traditions and experiences dating back to the arrival of Dutch white settlers, French Huguenots, and Germans at the Cape in the 17th and 18th centuries and including the dramatic events of the Great Trek in the 1830s and 40's.

1905: The old Theological School complex in Molen Street is both a symbol of the training of the Reformed Church ( Gereformeerde Kerk ) and of teaching through the medium of Afrikaans at primary, secondary and tertiary level, the latter because both the Mooi River Primary School, Gymnasium High school ( probably the first in the country which offered teaching in Afrikaans rather than in Dutch ) and the PU for CHE grew from this Theological School.

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Affies is considered to be a leader within the Afrikaans schools society for developing cricket for Afrikaans spoken children and to be competitive against English schools: http :// www. saschoolsports. co. za / index. php? option = com_k2 & view = item & id = 577: cricket-affies-rise-as-a-cricket-powerhouse & Itemid = 19.

Its name means " earth wolf " in the Afrikaans / Dutch language.

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken natively in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in a more regular morphology, grammar, and spelling of Afrikaans.

In neighbouring Namibia, Afrikaans is widely spoken as a second language and used as lingua franca, while as a native language it is spoken in 11 percent of households, mainly concentrated in the capital Windhoek and the southern regions of Hardap and Karas.

Boer (,, or ; ) is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for farmer, which came to denote the descendants of the Dutch-speaking settlers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century, as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal ( which are together known as the Boer Republics ), and to a lesser extent Natal.

Afrikaner directly translated means " African " and subsequently refers to all Afrikaans speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck.

Boer is the specific ethnic group within the larger Afrikaans speaking population.

After identifying a need for a church for Afrikaans speakers living in Holland, a church was established in Leusden and is known as Suiderkruis Kerk.

The name ' de Klerk ' ( literally meaning " the clerk " in Dutch ) is derived from Le Clerc, Le Clercq, and de Clercq and is of French Huguenot origin, as are a great number of other Afrikaans surnames, reflecting the French Huguenot refugees who settled in the Cape beginning in the 17th century alongside the Dutch, after they escaped religious persecution in France.

The latter two meanings also apply for the Afrikaans language, spoken in Southern Africa, which originated from Old Dutch amongst others.

It is widely used in the Afrikaans, Catalan, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Bahasa Indonesia, Scandinavian and German languages, with the same meaning.

Chinese and Afrikaans, for example, are highly analytic, and meaning is therefore very context-dependent.

Kameelperd is also the name for the species in Afrikaans.

Afrikaans, Norwegian and Swedish have gone even further and virtually abandoned verb conjugation altogether.

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

Finally, a few languages, such as English and Afrikaans, have nearly completely lost grammatical gender ; while Bengali, Persian, Armenian, Assamese, Oriya, Khowar, and Kalasha have completely lost it.

The Boers spoke Afrikaans, a language or dialect derived from Dutch, and no longer called themselves Boers but Afrikaner.

He was raised with English as well as Afrikaans.

During this time he translated the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into Afrikaans.

He worked as a teacher in many rural schools and soon started to publish in both Dutch and the newly emerging Afrikaans language.