Khoekhoe can be heard across South Africa in three everyday words, dagga (“cannabis”), nai (“pan flute”) and kak (slang for “feces” or “rubbish”). The influence of place-names, such as karoo (“dry ...

As South Africa celebrates Heritage Month, the nation is once again reminded that its identity is carried not only in traditions, rituals and customs, but also in the words people speak every day.

A society in which only some people are expected to understand others is not cohesive. It is hierarchical. Almost colonial, ...

In the last decade or so, xenophobic attacks have made headlines a number of times in South Africa. The most recent wave occurred in August and September 2019, targeting migrants from other African ...

The governing African National Congress (ANC) held a rally in Sharpeville (suburban Johannesburg) on March 21 to celebrate Human Rights Day and to commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, widely ...