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Die Son (Afrikaans: "The Sun") is a mixed Afrikaans-language South African tabloid reporting sensational news essentially after the model of British tabloids. It is the South African newspaper with the largest increase in readership in recent years. In the Western Cape province, it appears as a daily; in other provinces, it is a weekly paper.
Frontpage of "Die Afrikaanse Patriot" (1876), a newspaper in an early form of the Afrikaans language. This is a list of newspapers in South Africa. In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. [1]
Pages in category "Afrikaans-language newspapers" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Die Son; L. Landbou-Burger; M. Die Matie; R ...
While Afrikaans uses -e as the plural of most nouns, similar to Dutch -en, it also uses the -s ending where Dutch would use -en, hence the plural of seun ("son") being seuns, in contrast to Dutch, in which the plural of zoon is zonen, zoons being used as a plural in eighteenth century Dutch. [77] The plural zoons in Dutch is still common.
Daily Voice was launched on 16 March 2005 in the Western Cape, selling at the price of R1.50. [2] Its publication was a reaction to the success of the tabloid Daily Sun, published by Media24 and begun in 2002, and was part of a "tabloidisation" wave in the country. [1]
laaitie, lighty – a younger person, esp. a younger male such as a younger brother or son; lank – lots/a lot; langeraad – (pronounced: "lung-A-raat") cutesy nickname given to a really tall person; lang maer blonde man – a slight contrast to the phrase "tall, dark and handsome", it describes a goodlooking tall blonde-haired, and usually ...
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
The Volksblad (English: People's Journal) was an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper published in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and distributed in the Free State and Northern Cape provinces, where it was the largest Afrikaans daily. It was South Africa's oldest Afrikaans newspaper [1] until it closed in 2020.