Africa Quote by Watkin Tudor Jones

“It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.”

— Antjie Krog

I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So…

— Trevor Noah

Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows…

— Watkin Tudor Jones

Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

“A truly enlightened attitude to language should simply be to let six thousand or more flowers bloom. Subcultures should be allowed to thrive, not…

— Robert Lane Greene

I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.

— Yolandi Visser

“Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van Afrikaans.”

— Eleanor Baker

“It was a glorious experience to travel by rail for the children and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass window in…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all…

— Tanit Phoenix

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.

— Zakes Mda

Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's…

— Yolandi Visser

“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson…

— Robert Lane Greene