Watch Now – “Soweto Beach Party” (The Resurgence Of Afrikaans Among South Africa’s Black Population)
Afrikaans is an offshoot of Dutch introduced into South Africa by the early white Dutch settlers, known collectively today as Afrikaners. Afrikaans was spoken by those whites who developed the Apartheid policy which discriminated against South Africa’s indigenous blacks. Soweto – a township that’s historically been overwhelmingly Black, was the site of a few watershed events in the struggle against Apartheid – notably the Soweto Uprising of 1976; mass protests erupted over the then Apartheid government’s policy to enforce education in Afrikaans (the language of the oppressors).
The below documentary from Al Jazeera’s Witness series, titled Soweto Beach Party, asks, in short: Are black South Africans willing to accept and acclimate themselves to music in the language of their former oppressors…?
via shadowandact.com