Cape Town – What do The Bantu Golf, Shakespeare and a Xhosa Minister in Europe have in common? They are all books on display at South Africa's oldest library, the National Library of South Africa, ...

The beautiful thing about history is that it can help us develop a more complex understanding of the things we consider natural in our daily lives. People like to believe that their languages have ...

If Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has his way, most of South Africa’s 11,000,000 Bantu (native blacks) one day will live in their own Bantustans—eight big isolated reserves in regions safely separate ...

Every week, Inside Africa takes its viewers on a journey across Africa, exploring the true diversity and depth of different cultures, countries and regions. The journey from boyhood to manhood is a ...

Almost 80% of South Africans speak one of the SEB family languages as their first language. Their origins can be traced to farmers of West-Central Africa whose descendants over the past two millennia ...

As Nelson Mandela's death is mourned and his life and legacy celebrated in South Africa and around the world, the BBC's Pronunciation Unit has been advising broadcasters on the pronunciation of South ...

What do The Bantu Golf , Shakespeare and a Xhosa Minister in Europe have in common? They are all books on display at South Africa's oldest library, the National Library of South Africa, which turned ...