Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

It is not so much the rewriting of history by those who claim it, but what it is they leave out or choose to ignore that matters. Afrikaans, one of 12 official languages in South Africa, is being ...

Hundreds of students at Stellenbosch University in South Africa have protested against the Afrikaans language being favoured at their school, alleging that it promotes racism. Afrikaans is viewed by ...

Nelson Mandela must be turning in his grave. The Irish airline Ryanair is trying to catch out passengers with fraudulent passports by making everyone boarding a flight for South Africa fill in a ...

Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande shared an often ignored fact recently, that "the single largest [group of] speakers of the Afrikaans language are the working class in the Western Cape".

South Africans who prefer to converse and read in Afrikaans can now shop for a new or used car online entirely in Afrikaans. Well, almost. The new website launched today is Stuurwiel and was brought ...