neville alexander on afrikaans
“It is my view that those who continue to call themselves ‘Afrikaners’ must realise the only way this sub-national identity could ever be accepted by all South Africans is if it were to be stripped of its anti-black historical baggage and rebuilt on the essential theme of anti-imperialism in which it was constructed as a conscious strategy…. Afrikaans, the language, does not belong to the Afrikaner; it belongs to all who speak it, especially mother tongue speakers.”
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