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Apartheid (/ ə ˈ p ɑːr t (h) aɪ t / ə-PART-(h)yte, especially South African English: / ə ˈ p ɑːr t (h) eɪ t / ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpart(ɦ)əit] ⓘ; transl. "separateness", lit. ' aparthood ') was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa [a] (now Namibia) from 1948 ...
Die Stem van Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans: [di ˈstɛm fan sœyt ˈɑːfrika], lit. ' The Voice of South Africa '), also known as "The Call of South Africa" or simply "Die Stem" (Afrikaans: [di ˈstɛm]), was the national anthem of South Africa during the apartheid era.
This article covers the phonological system of South African English (SAE) as spoken primarily by White South Africans.While there is some variation among speakers, SAE typically has a number of features in common with English as it is spoken in southern England (in places like London), such as non-rhoticity and the TRAP – BATH split.
(Pronounced / ˈ x ɔː x ə /, the latter similar to the Afrikaans pronunciation) a creepy crawly or an insect. [19] gogo Zulu word meaning grandmother/grandma, also used as a general term of respect for women of appropriate age. Became part of the iconic slogan Yebo Gogo (Yes, Grandma) from the South African cellular service-provider Vodacom ...
The effective end to apartheid, however, is widely regarded as the 1994 general election, the first fully-democratic multi-racial election. It took place following a long series of negotiations involving the National Party government under President Frederik Willem de Klerk , the ANC under Nelson Mandela , and other parties. [ 101 ]
The fourth and final stanza, sung in English, is a modified version of the closing lines of "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika". The South African National Anthem is often incorrectly called “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” but the correct name is “The National Anthem of South Africa”.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Afrikaans on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Afrikaans in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
A Volkstaat (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkstɑːt], lit. ' People's State ' [1]), also called a Boerestaat, is a proposed White homeland [2] for Afrikaners within the borders of South Africa, most commonly proposed as a fully independent Boer/Afrikaner nation.