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Jul 26, 2016 · Although Van der Merwe's research focuses specifically on Afrikaans music that was recorded by white artists, he explains that Afrikaans music has strong influences from all sides. "Just as Afrikaans is a fluid and multiracial language with many cultures that influence it, so also is Afrikaans music. The roots of boeremusiek, which has now ...
Visibility remains a critical issue for Coloured Afrikaans speakers, who find themselves underrepresented in white-owned media as it continues to pump millions into South Africa’s booming ...
be white and Afrikaans in South Africa. In particular, it explores the emergence into visibility of so-called ‘zef’-culture as mediated through musical acts like Die
- Afrikaans More Black Than White
- Arabic Script
- Simplicity, Brevity and Vigour
- Nationalism Severely Diminished
Afrikaans is a southern African language. Today six in 10of the almost seven million Afrikaans speakers in South Africa are estimated to be black. It’s a figure that will by all indications increase significantly in the next decade. Like several other South African languages, Afrikaans is a cross-border language spanning sizeable communities of spe...
In 1860 one of the students in a Cape Town madrasah (an Islamic school), a descendant of slaves, copied a prayer in his exercise book. Today the surviving fragments of that book reveals a history that somehow remains hidden to the vast majority of South Africans. The exercises in that book, also called a “koplesboek” (head lesson book), are written...
Around 1870 the first steps towards the battle between various views on the nature of Cape Dutch, or what would become known as Afrikaans, were taken. Some of the leading figures of what would become known as the “first language movement” (1874–1890) strenuously denied the creole nature of the language. For them Afrikaans was “a pure Germanic langu...
In a disastrous policy decision, Afrikaans was imposedas a language of instruction on black, non-Afrikaans speakers in 1974. The impact was the point of ignition for the Soweto uprising in 1976 and along with it, suspicion of its speakers. Afrikaans was labelled “the language of the oppressor”. The slogan was rightly an emotive, visceral response t...
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Apr 17, 2024 · Afrikaans music has its roots deeply embedded in the folk traditions of the early Afrikaner settlers, blending European influences with local sounds. The early 20th century saw the rise of "Boeremusiek" or farmer's music, characterized by the use of accordions, concertinas, and guitars. These instruments set the foundation for the distinctive ...
Light music was made using instruments such as the violin, and the concertina and would later develop into a traditional Afrikaans music form, namely ‘Boeremusiek’. Afrikaners only really began to compose Afrikaans music after the TweedeTaalbeweging (Second Language Movement) c. 1905 when poets were able to express themselves in Afrikaans and the poems were set to music.
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South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. Almost all South Africans speak English to some degree of proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. [ 1 ][ 2 ] South Africa has eleven official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken ...
