How To Use Afrikaans In A Sentence
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As Joe Pesci said in his best Afrikaans, "He's * blick*!
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He said the Afrikaans media and their intellectuals operated inside a "mielie driehoek" (mealie triangle) mentality which was only real between Potchefstroom, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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OKE: Apartheid, literally "apartness" in Afrikaans and Dutch, was in basic terms racism made law.
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Sosaties (skewered meat), kebabs, "crayfish" or kreef in Afrikaans, marinated chicken, pork and lamb chops, steaks, what seemed like ten kinds of Boerewors (sausages) of different flavors and thickness, and five racks of something that looked vaguely like spareribs.
Josh Tetrick: Why Martin Luther King's Son Doesn't Eat Meat
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But Sylvia had the sort of melodious and cultured voice which defied classification; her English and Afrikaans were of a high order.
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The march was in protest at a government edict making Afrikaans compulsory in schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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Speaking in English, Xhosa and, to the amusement of the mainly-Afrikaans crowd of around 5,000, in Afrikaans, Mandela said freedom in South Africa will only gain its full meaning "as we succeed together in overcoming and inequalities of our past and in improving the lives of especially the poor.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was the SRC's attempts to eliminate the Afrikaans character of the university and its championing the ANC which gave the university a "jingo" image among right-thinking Afrikaners, he said.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The word "duiker" means dive in Afrikaans, which suits the duiker as they are known for diving for cover in the forest or brush.
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Her mom had chosen to write to her in Afrikaans and spoke of the daily dealings at the house.
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In fact the word comes from Afrikaans (via Dutch) and the animal was given the name because of a misidentification.
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What this boiled down to was that maths and social studies were to be taught in Afrikaans, while general science and practical subjects like homecraft and woodwork would be taught in English.
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an Afrikaans couple
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Le Roux, speaking in Afrikaans, ridiculed the idea that South Africa could ever be a white man's country.
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Also, one of my sources attributed mebos to Afrikaans, probably (my italics) from the Japanese umeboshi.
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Mandela, South Africa's first black president, Afrikaner university workers in Afrikaans, Xhosa and English.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Rand Afrikaans University researchers have listed 13 ‘grey’ suburbs in cities across SA.
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She was having extra coaching in Afrikaans which was why she couldn't come to the Jurgens ' for lunch.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Die Antwoord, whose moniker is Afrikaans for "the answer".
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With various degrees of emphasis, the many projects within the large umbrella of Folkspraak try to unite living Germanic languages -- from the big four of English, High German, Dutch, and Swedish/Norwegian/Danish to the grab bag of smaller Germanic languages such as Low German, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Frisian, Icelandic, and Nynorsk -- under a single common auxiliary language.
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Now, years later, I still find myself longing for this konfyt, the Afrikaans word for jam, or here, more accurately, conserve.
Family life
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This tiny dorp (village – Afrikaans is the first language in this part of the country) of a couple of hundred fisherman and their families is called Hondeklip Bay.
South Africa beyond the World Cup: the remote west coast
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They are certainly competent when performing Western music, but have just enough of a South African / Afrikaans inflection in their articulation to remind one of their South African origin.
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Die blote feit dat ek 'n taal van ons land kan gebruik wat U Majesteit maklik verstaan, dui op die uitgebreide bande wat sedert eeue tussen ons twee land bestaan - bande, nie net op taal en kulturele terrein nie, maar oor die hele spektrum van die Suid - Afrikaanse samelewing.
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A BANQUET IN HONOUR OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS
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He started Deurbraak, an Afrikaans journal of verligte opinion.
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The march was in protest at a government edict making Afrikaans compulsory in schools.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just for the heck of it (and to see if anyone understands this) - herewith the only Afrikaans poem I've ever written, short and sweet.
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After asking me all these questions they told me I was speaking in Fanagalo (a mixture of isiZulu, English and Afrikaans) and told me to get into the van," she said.
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There was a young Afrikaans-speaking minister in a little platteland dorp who was having problems concentrating during his sermons because so many of the congregation were having bad coughing fits.
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For years Fanakalo [or Fanagalo], a mixture of English, Afrikaans and Zulu, was the lingua franca of the mining industry in South Africa.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Johannesburg (Afrikaans pronunciation: [joˈhɑnəsˌbʏrx]) also known as Jozi or Jo'burg, is the largest city in South Africa.
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Too bad for that Czech or Afrikaans novelist who has not yet had the royal summons to appear in English.
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They have to process every variety of English slanguage, plus Hindi, Urdu, Afrikaans, Tamil and Punjabi, and decide whether it's unnecessary, detrimental, stupid or just plain old banter.
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Die Afrikaanse woord "regstellende aksie" is so 'n pragtige en raak beskrywing van een van die take waarvoor ons staan om die onbillike rasse-strukture van ons verlede ongedaan te maak.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In a statement in Pretoria the IFP said the move, which it described as drastic, had to be discussed widely since it impacted negatively on students conducting their studies in Afrikaans.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Several close relations occur in Australia, where they are generally known as ‘pigfaces ' (nothing to do with pigs or faces, it seems, but possibly a corruption of the Afrikaans name big-vys). Aborigines harvested the fruits of these.
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For several weeks already, students in Soweto schools had disputed a policy change that would have forced them to study certain nonlanguage subjects such as mathematics through the medium of Afrikaans.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
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Information pamphlets on the operation of the court were also made available to the public in English, Swazi and Afrikaans.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The so-called Afrikaans "language struggle" is therefore much more radical than we think.
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Apartheid does literally mean "apartness" in Afrikaans, and its creators and implementors in the old South Africa instituted it because they believed the non-white population of that country was intrinsically inferior on the individual and collective levels - and they furthermore believed in a theological imperative for that separation.
Joshua Treviño: obiter dictum.
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(The name kwaito comes from either the word kwai, which is Afrikaans slang for "hot," or a gang in Soweto called the AmaKwaitos.
Kwaito Blows Up
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Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, and German are the more important languages within the West germanic grouping.
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According to the Afrikaans on Sunday newspaper, one 15-year-old "preyed" on a schoolmate and coerced others into lying to officials investigating the alleged incidents.
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A kloof, in the South African language of Afrikaans, is a canyon.
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Afrikaans cuisine borrows from Malay and other traditions (with bobotie, for instance: a sort of crustless mince pie involving raisins, with egg on top) and is big on stodge and sugar.
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Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomiese en politieke wereld; daar is werklik geen lewenskragtige toekoms vir enigeen in norse onttrekking en afsondering nie.
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Afrikaans-speaking homeland into the proposed Afrikaner state as being "unpractical".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Members will also have a hance to study the Afrikaans version of the Bill, which is expected to be available by lunchtime.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The root geck still survives in Dutch and Afrikaans gek: crazy, as well as some German dialects, and in the Alsatian word Gickeleshut: geek's hat, used in carnivals.
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Many shop signs are still in Afrikaans, the antique Dutch spoken by those of Afrikaner descent.
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Dit is bekend dat ons besig is met 'n proses om sewe militêre magte te integreer in een Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag.
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE DAY
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South Africa itself is a rich stew, or bredie, as they call it in Afrikaans, the local Dutch polyglot.
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Everyone can contribute, but primarily it's the musings of the founding members who tell their stories to the Afrikaans massive.
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Buuren had every right to be addressed in Afrikaans, adjourned the proceedings.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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At times, insight — "the strikes were not so much against Afrikaans as a language, but against an Afrikaans government" — vies with prejudice — "the children are being used" — and momentary perspicuity is lost to habits of racism.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
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Yiddish and Luxem - bourgian are offshoots of German, and Afrikaans is based on Dutch.
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She might be from the Afrikaans side of our rainbow nation fence, but the person who designed this beaut shouldn't be.
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'lekker' it is to feel Afrikaans roll off more and more tongues while the Afrikaans community proudly help to rebuild the new South
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Their activities upset the natural status quo, and we awoke one morning to find a pair of adult boomslangs Afrikaans for tree snake—“boo-um-slung”, the female brown, the male pea green, looped in a bow at the top of the syringa tree in the driveway.
Rainbow’s End
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* Afrikaans is a West Germanic language descended from Dutch and spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia.
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A man standing in the shadows of his front garden coughed, and spoke to him in Afrikaans.
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With only a rudimentary education in Afrikaans they are denied access to a functional mastery of English.
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Sosaties (skewered meat), kebabs, "crayfish" or kreef in Afrikaans, marinated chicken, pork and lamb chops, steaks, what seemed like ten kinds of Boerewors (sausages) of different flavors and thickness, and five racks of something that looked vaguely like spareribs.
Josh Tetrick: Why Martin Luther King's Son Doesn't Eat Meat
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Dit is bekend dat ons besig is met 'n proses om sewe militere magte te integreer in een Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In his defence, Herselman argued that the word baboon was common in conversational Afrikaans and had no malicious or bad intentions.
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It is the base of myriad sweetish wines locally called Stein, often sold by the 5-l box, a frequent fixture at a braai, as barbecues are known in Afrikaans.
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Mandela, who spoke in English, Xhosa and Afrikaans, said the history of what was now the Western Cape - like that of the whole country - taught South Africans that freedom was indivisible.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was interdenominational, with a different minister travelling out from town each week, giving sermons alternately in English and Afrikaans.
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Derived from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," apartheid is a term that came into usage in the 1930s and signified the political policy under which the races in South Africa were subject to "separate development.
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He told the Bethal Afrikaanse Sakekamer the subregion was the powerhouse of the Eastern Transvaal, responsible for almost 45 per cent of economic output.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Delivering most of his speech in Afrikaans, Mandela told when he was in prison he spoke Afrikaans like a "tokoloshe".
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Chilapalapa, otherwise known as Fanagalo, was a simplistic form of Ngoni Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and related languages, amalgamated with snippets of English, Dutch, and Afrikaans.
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