Language Quote by Yolandi Visser

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

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

— Yolandi Visser

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

“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

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

— Watkin Tudor Jones

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

— Watkin Tudor Jones

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

— Zakes Mda

Dutch is our first language. When you talk to older people, you speak Dutch. It's more respectful. The local language, you talk with your…

— Jairzinho Rozenstruik

But I think people, especially white people, have to come to understand that the language of the ghetto is a language of its own,…

— Bobby Seale

“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'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

People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I…

— Anthony Geary