Revisiting aspects of language in South Africa durting the Apartheid area

• Autores: Mgwebi Lavin Snail
• Localización: Historia Actual Online, ISSN-e 1696-2060, Nº. 24 (Invierno), 2011, págs. 65-91
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this article, our aim is show how the Afrikaners succeeded in using their language to build their nationalism, the Afrikaners used the state power to use the language situation in South Africa to implement their policy of divide and rule. The existing linguistic differences were manipulated to create many nations called � �multi-nationalism �as the architects of Apartheid would prefer to call it.