Sunday Feature: The Struggle for LanguageSeries 1, episode 0What happens to languages after drastic political distortion? 3: Afrikaans. Will the collapse of apartheid in South Africa lead to the eventual demise of the Afrikaans language? For playwright Mike Van Kraan, this is personal. Brought up by his Afrikaans-speaking parents, he refused to speak the language as a young man as a means of fighting apartheid. Yet today, in the new South Africa, his children are coming home from school speaking Afrikaans. Mike goes on a personal journey to define for himself the struggle for the language. Contributors include F W De Klerk and Andre Brink. Click to see when Sunday Feature, The Struggle for Language is coming up on UK TV |
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