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Mabel Jansen (née Pellissier), the Academy's first female member. The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SAAWK) (literally South African Academy for Science and Arts) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting science, technology and the arts in Afrikaans, as well as promoting the use and quality of Afrikaans.
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]
Stanmore Hall was purchased by the Air Ministry in 1938. Buildings were built on the grounds of Stanmore Hall, and the hall was demolished during the station development programme. [1] RAF Stanmore Park formed part of No 11 Group, which was originally at RAF Uxbridge and then transferred to nearby RAF Bentley Priory until its closure
Afrikaans [n 1] is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular [ 5 ] [ 6 ] of South Holland ( Hollandic dialect ) [ 7 ] [ 8 ] spoken by the predominantly Dutch settlers and enslaved population of the Dutch Cape Colony , where it gradually ...
The University of Johannesburg, colloquially known as UJ, is a public university located in Johannesburg, South Africa.The University of Johannesburg was established on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the Technikon Witwatersrand (TWR) and the Soweto and East Rand campuses of Vista University. [12]
Code 1 (G): 0% - 29%; The OBE system, when in its experimental stages, originally used a scale from 1 - 4 (a pass being a 3 and a '1st class pass' being above 70%), but this system was considered far too coarse and replaced by a scale from 1 to 7.
[13]: 290–1 Jannie Marais, a wealthy Stellenbosch farmer, bequeathed the money required before his death in 1915. [13]: 291 There were certain conditions to his gift which included Dutch/Afrikaans having equal status to English and that the lecturers teach at least half their lectures in Dutch/Afrikaans. By 1930, very little, if any ...
Shortly after the Second World War, there were only six Afrikaans-medium high schools on the Witwatersrand, compared to 26 English-medium high schools. [2] The growth of Afrikaans-medium high schools gradually began to reflect the population growth of Afrikaans first language speakers. The number of Afrikaners on the Rand grew by 167 percent ...