The Afrikaans Language Monument (Afrikaans: Afrikaanse Taalmonument) is located on a hill overlooking Paarl, Western Cape Province, South Africa. Officially...
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Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and also Argentina where there...
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Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
Afrikaners" [Background to the Association of True Afrikaaners]. De Roepstem (in Afrikaans). Retrieved 3 February 2011. Afrikaans Museum and Monument v t e...
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the Afrikaans language as "one of the ugliest languages in the world" in its September 2005 edition (in reference to the Afrikaans Language Monument), Rupert...
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one of three official languages in what was then South West Africa, alongside Afrikaans and English, two other Germanic languages in Namibia. German is...
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Orania (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
goal of creating a stronghold for the Afrikaner minority group, the Afrikaans language and the Afrikaner culture through the creation of an Afrikaner state...
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Hoërskool Monument (English: Monument High School; also known by the nickname Monnas) is a parallel medium (formerly purely Afrikaans medium) strictly...
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Afrikaans Language Monument by Bronwyn Davies, an English-speaking South African, that described Afrikaans as "one of the world's ugliest languages."...
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media related to Voortrekker Monument. Official Site of the Voortrekker Monument Blood river Vow Committee (in Afrikaans) – Official Site 360 degree Virtual...
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N. P. van Wyk Louw (category Afrikaans-language poets)
van Wyk Louw is quoted on the Afrikaans Language Monument in Paarl, Western Cape Province; in his quote, he views Afrikaans as a bridge that connects Europe...
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Petrus Steyn (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
An Afrikaans Language Monument was created out of stones stacked by visitors on 14 August 1975, in celebration of the centenary of the Afrikaans Language...
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Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal...
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Braamfontein and Hoërskool Monument in Krugersdorp in 1921. Shortly after the Second World War, there were only six Afrikaans-medium high schools on the...
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Correctional Center, Chicago, designed by Harry Weese. October 10 – Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl, South Africa. December 10 – General Artigas Bridge, Uruguay...
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Paarl (category Pages with Afrikaans IPA)
of the Afrikaans language were laid by the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners. The "Afrikaanse Taalmonument" (monument to the Afrikaans language) on the...
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Kultuurvereniginge ("Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations") is a non-profit, non-governmental Afrikaans cultural organisation. Founded in 1929...
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inauguration of the monument at Bloedrivier between 13–17 December 1971 as well as the inauguration of the Taalmonument (Afrikaans language monument) in Paarl on...
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Burgersdorp (redirect from Dutch Language Monument)
the main inscription on that monument refers to the Hollandse taal (Dutch language), it can be understood to mean Afrikaans, because the Hollandse taal...
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Monument Park (Afrikaans: Monumentpark) is a suburb of Pretoria, South Africa. It is at the start of the R21 Highway. Monument Park houses a primary school...
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language) and 0.1% speak !Xóõ, a Tuu language (both non-Bantu). English is spoken by 2.8% as their first language, and a small number speak Afrikaans...
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Huguenots in South Africa (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
Christopher Cato (Caton) first mayor of Durban. Jan F. E. Celliers, Afrikaans-language poet, essayist, dramatist and reviewer. Sarel Cilliers, Voortrekker...
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Welkom (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
goldfields.(next to Allanridge) Afrikaans Language Monument Joanne Pim Monument WWII Monument Voortrekker Memorial Dog Monument Old Indaba Bluegum Tree MOTH...
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Loslyf (category Afrikaans-language magazines)
Loslyf is a South African Afrikaans-language pornographic magazine. The magazine was founded in 1995 by J.T. Publishing, a South African subsidiary of...
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Great Trek (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
The Great Trek (Afrikaans: Die Groot Trek, Dutch: De Grote Trek) was a northward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers who travelled by wagon trains from...
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Lichtenburg, South Africa (category Pages with Afrikaans IPA)
Symbolic Ox Wagon trek. The Afrikaans Language Monument designed by Hennie Potgieter and erected during the 1975 language centenary festival. The Greeff...
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Afrikaner nationalism (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
that drew upon the Afrikaner people's history, the defense of the Afrikaans language, republicanism, and Afrikaner Calvinism. A major proponent of the...
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The National Women's Monument (Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouemonument) in Bloemfontein, South Africa, is a monument commemorating the roughly 27,000 Boer women...
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Henning Klopper (category CS1 Afrikaans-language sources (af))
first chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond. He is known for promoting Afrikaans and fighting White Afrikaner poverty in South Africa. Klopper was born...
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dead link] "National Heritage Council, War Museum of Boer Republics, Afrikaans Language Museum: Annual Reports & Strategic Plan | PMG". pmg.org.za. Retrieved...
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government. Fagan had been an early supporter of the Afrikaans language movement and a noted Afrikaans playwright and novelist. Though he was a significant...
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