Podcasts about Afrikaans

#afrikaans #contentcreator #andreahurter #podcast #storytimepodcast In this week's episode of Storytime, Joshua sits down with South African actress and viral content creator Andrea Hurter.Andrea's relatable, unfiltered content has taken over South African social media — going viral multiple times and completely transforming her life. From growing up in the Northern Suburbs with Afrikaans parents to becoming one of the country's most recognisable online personalities, her journey is both hilarious and deeply real.In this episode, Andrea opens up about giving herself her first tattoo, traveling through Europe and getting pickpocketed, the chaos of Croatia Boat Week, and navigating online hate in the age of virality. She also shares how she discovered her love for content creation, the moment she realised social media could change her future, and why being unapologetically yourself is her greatest strength.For more information on Knox Hydration & the Founders Legacy Fund visit: http://knoxhydrate.com/founderslegacyfundTabletPOS, your leading mobile point of sale for the hospitality and retail industries within South Africa. Serving the best restaurants in South Africa. For more information visit - https://tabletpos.co.za/

When a family sailing journey ends in capture by child soldiers during Mozambique's civil war, a man must protect his children while confronting the unsettling truth that his captors are both perpetrators of violence and children shaped by it. Today's episode featured Dave Muller. Dave has written about his experiences in a book entitled, “Not Child's Play”, available where books are sold or at https://notchildsplay.co.uk/ You can email Dave at dave.muller@notchildsplay.co.za Dave is on Instagram @davenotchildsplay, on Facebook @Dave Muller and on YouTube @DaveMuller-NotChildsPlayIn the 1960s and 1970s, both South Africa and Mozambique were part of the larger decolonization of Africa, with South Africa gaining full independence from Britain in 1961 and Mozambique gaining independence from Portugal in 1975. However, in the decolonization process, both were thrown into proxy battles, between old structures clinging to power and the larger global cold war between communist and capitalist superpowers. South Africa, even after independence, was still ruled by a white minority government, under the National Party. The National Party was populated mostly by the white ethnic group known as Afrikaners who spoke a language called Afrikaans. The National Party instituted apartheid, a brutally oppressive system of institutionalized racial segregation and white supremacy enforced in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990s. South Africa shares a northeastern border with Mozambique. When Mozambique gained independence in 1975, they were ruled by the Communist party known as FRELIMO. FRELIMO became a major force opposing apartheid in neighboring South Africa. The South African apartheid government, in response to FRELIMO's opposition, actively destabilized Mozambique from the inside by propping up a rebel group known as RENAMO. This led to a violent 15-year civil war in Mozambique, between the ruling, communist-backed FRELIMO party and the South African-backed RENAMO rebel group. In the first part of today's episode, you'll hear our storyteller speak about growing up in South Africa during apartheid as a white man, but he was not an Afrikaner, and grew up in a family that was opposed to apartheid. The second part of the story takes place in Mozambique, where he and his family are held by the RENAMO rebel group and caught in the chaos and fighting between FRELIMO and RENAMO, the two warring factions in the civil war there. Of course there is much more to say about all of this, and Dave will speak to some of these issues as he experienced them. I encourage you all to read more about the brutal and complex history of decolonization and apartheid in Africa. And one final note, you'll hear Dave talking about “Arwen” several times. In case it isn't clear right away, he is referring to his boat that he built. Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz Content/Trigger Warnings: War and armed conflict, Child soldiers, Kidnapping / hostage situation, Graphic violence, Murder (including stabbing / bayoneting), Violence against the elderly, Exposure to blood, Threats of execution, Weapons (guns, rockets, mortar fire), Terrorism / militant groups, Civil war, Psychological trauma, PTSD, Panic attacks / emotional breakdown, Spiritual distress, Political violence, Forced recruitment of children, Coercion and intimidation, explicit language Social Media:Instagram: @actuallyhappeningTwitter/X: @TIAHPodcastFacebook: This Is Actually Happening Discussion Group Website: thisisactuallyhappening.com Website for Andrew Waits: andrdewwaits.comWebsite for Aviva Lipkowitz: avivalipkowitz.com Support the Show: Support The Show on Patreon: patreon.com/happeningAudible subscribers can listen to all episodes of THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app or visit Audible.com. Shop at the Store: The This Is Actually Happening online store is now officially open. Follow this link: thisisactuallyhappening.com/shop to access branded t-shirts, posters, stickers and more from the shop. Transcripts: Full transcripts of each episode are now available on the website, thisisactuallyhappening.com Intro Music: “Sleep Paralysis” - Scott VelasquezMusic Bed: Sparse_Reflections__a__APM ServicesIf you or someone you know is struggling with the effects of trauma or mental illness, please refer to the following resources: National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Text or Call 988 National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-6264National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

A Place Where God Will Live Ephesians 2:11-22 by William Klock In today's Old Testament lesson we hear King Solomon praying at the dedication of the temple.  The temple was finally completed and Solomon gathered the elders of Israel at the tabernacle, where they offered sacrifices too many to number.  Then with the priests leading them with the ark of the covenant, they processed up the mountain to the temple.  When they'd placed it in the holy of holies, the presence of the Lord, the shekinah, the cloud of his glory descended to fill the temple as it once had the tabernacle.  And Solomon prayed.  He prayed for the new temple and he prayed for his people.  He prayed that they would be faithful.  And then, our lesson today, he prayed for the foreigners, for the gentiles who might come to the Lord's temple having heard of his great name, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm—that coming to the temple, they would know his glory.  Solomon's kingdom was, however imperfectly, a fulfilment of the Lord's promise to Abraham to make Israel a light to the nations.  And the nations came to Israel and to Solomon, because they saw and because they heard of the Lord's reputation.  Not only had he blessed his people, but in him they saw a god unlike their own.  And so they came, and they saw for themselves the goodness of the Lord, the God of Israel.  And Solomon knew, too, that they would come to the temple that he'd built.  So he prayed that when these foreigners came and prayed, that the Lord would answer them, that he would make himself known to them, so that “all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel.”  Again, this wasn't some one-off prayer that Solomon came up with.  Solomon's prayer is rooted in the promises of God and in the story of his people.  Solomon knew that the world is not as it should be; Solomon knew the Lord's promises to set it to rights; and Solomon knew that God had given an integral role to his people to bring the fulfilment of those promises.  And Solomon great desire was for his people to be faithful to that calling, to that vocation—faithful to be a temple people. Now, this imagery and idea of the temple wasn't new with Israel; it goes all the way back to the beginning of the story.  The garden was God's first temple.  And the man and woman he created—he created them—us—to bear his image.  That means to be his representatives in the temple, to serve him, and steward his goodness to the rest of creation.  We rejected that vocation and the story ever since has been about God restoring his temple and his people.  Two weeks ago, when we looked at Ephesians 2:1-10, we saw how Jesus—the one in whom God and humanity have come together—represents God's work to restore his temple, but we also saw there that, as Paul stresses so much, what is true of Jesus is also true of those who are in him.  One day his people will be raised to be like him—heaven and earth people—but in the meantime, God has filled his church—filled us—with his Spirit as a foretaste and a down payment of that hope.  Brothers and Sisters, that means that we, purified by the blood of Jesus and filled with God's Spirit, we're now the temple—not a temple of bricks and mortar, but a temple of people filled with God's presence. Just as Solomon prayed that the nations would know the glorious reputation of the God of Israel through his people and come to meet him at his temple, our prayer, our desire, our commitment ought to be that the world will know God's glorious reputation through us and come to meet him here.  What God promised to Adam and Eve, to Abraham, to Moses, to the people through the Prophets is now reality in us.  The promise isn't completely fulfilled.  One day the knowledge of the glory of God will fill the earth.  On that day the new creation that began when Jesus rose from the dead will come to full fruit.  Creation and us with it will be made fully new.  God will wipe every last remaining bit of evil from the world and sin and death will be no more.  But, Brothers and Sisters, here's the really important thing here: The church—you and I and everyone else who is in Jesus the Messiah—we are God's vehicle to get the world to that point.  The church is God's means of making his glory known until it fills the earth.  And that ought to get us reflecting on how faithful we are to our mission.  When the world looks at the Church, when it looks at Christians, does what we say and do and live declare the glory of God: his great name, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm?  (To put it as Solomon did.)  Does what we say and do and live give the world a desire to come to the church to meet God?  Do we at least make the world constructively curious?  If not, we need to reflect on our priorities and on what we're doing. And this is true of everyone who is in Jesus the Messiah, but Paul, writing to the Ephesians who were mostly gentile believers, wants to stress to them just how significant it is that through Jesus and the Spirit they have been made a part of this temple people.  Brothers and Sisters, this is something that we don't spend enough time talking about and reflecting on.  For Paul, the unification of Jews and gentiles in the Messiah was at the heart of the gospel.  It was the proof that God was fulfilling his promises.  This church, made up of Jews and gentiles, men and women, rich and poor, slave and free, all together, unified, one body was a testimony to the glory of God.  In fact, for Paul, it was the testimony of the gospel's power. And I don't think it's even on the radar for many of us today, because we've become so used to and even so complacent about divisions within the church.  Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Mennonites, Romans, and Eastern Orthodox—and those are just some older divisions amongst us before we got really split-happy in the last century or two.  And it's not just theology and polity.  I suspect Paul might have at least a little sympathy for those sorts of divisions, especially over serious, gospel-compromising theological matters.  But Paul would be furious to see how we divide over things like language and ethnicity.  The English are here and the Germans are at that Lutheran church and the Swedes at that other Lutheran church and the Italians and Spanish and Filipinos are at the Roman church and the Greeks at the Greek Orthodox, the Russians at the Russian Orthodox, the Ukrainians at the Ukrainian Orthodox, the Syrians at the Syrian Orthodox.  The Dutch are in their Reformed church and the Scots are in their Reformed church.  And there's a church just for Chinese-speakers and another for Afrikaans and so on and on.  And you've got Messianic Jews forming their own synagogues.  And Paul would be shouting at us and asking, “Haven't you read a single thing I've written to you?  Your divisions are undermining the very gospel you claim to preach!” Paul did not want this to happen in the Ephesian churches, but even more than that, he wanted the people in those churches, especially he wanted them to appreciate just what God had done for them in Jesus and the Spirit, because if we understand what God has done to make us one, we'll hopefully be far less likely to let it be undone.  So, Paul writes in Ephesians 2:11-12 and reminds them of what they used to be: “Therefore, remember this: In human terms—that is, in your ‘flesh'—you are ‘gentiles'.  You are the people whom the so-called circumcision refer to as the so-called uncircumcision—circumcision, of course, being something done by human hands to human flesh.  Well, once upon a time you were separated from the Messiah.  You were alienated from the community of Israel.  You were foreigners to the covenants of promise.  There you were in the world, with no hope and no God.” You were gentiles.  Of course, Gentiles didn't think of themselves that way.  They were just regular people; it was the Jews who were weird.  But the fact that Paul can say this to them, “You were gentiles” means that they've now been brought into the family of Israel.  And just in case they might have forgotten the significance of that, he describes them as having been outsiders with this string of descriptors that work up to a crescendo of alienation. First, they were separated from the Messiah—from the rightful King.  The Messiah was some weird thing the Jews were into.  What would Greeks or Romans—who were oh, so superior—want to have to do with him?  And even if they did, the Messiah wasn't part of their story.  Then second, Paul says that they were alienated from the community—the commonwealth as the King James puts it—of Israel.  They were foreigners.  Israel was not their nation and Israel's God was not their God.  Even if they did see something attractive in Israel and went to the temple in Jerusalem—think of Solomon's prayer for the foreign visitors who would come—there was a wall between the court of the gentiles and the court of the women.  In Paul's day there was an inscription on that wall warning that foreigners passed it on pain of death.  Gentiles could look from a distance, but they were cut off from the living God.  And third, they were foreigners to the covenants of promise.  Most of them had never heard of Abraham or Moses, but if they had, that simply wasn't their story and it certainly wasn't their family.  They didn't belong there.  Whatever promises the God of Israel had made, those promises were not for the gentiles.  And Paul then sums it all up and says: You were in the world without God and without hope. I think Paul intends a bit of irony there.  When he says they were without God he uses a word that essentially means they were atheists.  And “atheist” is exactly what the gentiles called Jews and the first Christians.  Because Jews and Christians worshipped only one God and one God might as well have been no god to them with their vast pantheons.  And Jews and Christians refused to take part in the pagan worship and festivals that ran all through gentile life and society.  And so Paul flips it around.  “No, it was you gentiles, separated from the Messiah, alienated from Israel, foreigners to the covenant promises—it was you who were the atheists.  You were the ones without God.  And because of that you had no hope.  And if being called atheists didn't make an impact, I have to think this would have.  Because it's not that the Greeks and Romans didn't understand the idea of hope; it's that they had no reason, no grounds to live with hope.  No one in their world believed in progress the way people do today.  That idea is rooted in our biblical heritage.  They thought things just went round and round in cycles—forever stuck.  And while their philosophers might talk about life after death, it was all very vague and not hopeful at all.  Hesiod imprisoned hope in the bottom of Pandora's box, lost forever.  Aristotle and others wrote about hope as fickle and treacherous—a foolish thing to trust in.  Things could go wrong just as easily as they could go right.  Hope just wasn't a big deal for the Greeks.  But in stark contrast, hope was at the centre of the whole Jewish and early Christian worldview.  As I said last time, no one in the pagan world would have ever dreamed that the gods loved them or even really cared about them, so why would anyone in the pagan world have reason to hope?  So Paul sums it all up: Without God and without hope, the gentiles were alone and lost in the world.  Paul reminds them just how bleak things were for them before they were captured by the gospel.  I think it's a good thing for us to reflect on this ourselves and if we did, I think we would have a greater appreciation for what God has done for us and for what he has made his church. So after painting this bleak and pitiful picture of where these people were before Jesus, Paul cuts through the hopelessness and despair.  Like he did with that great, “But God!” in verse 3, now in verse 13 he practically shouts out, “But now!” “But now, in Messiah Jesus, you who used to be far away have been brough near by the Messiah's blood.  He is our peace, you see.  He has made the two to be one.  He has pulled down the barrier, the dividing wall, that turns us into enemies of each other.  He has done this in his flesh, by abolishing the law with its commands and instructions.” Paul wrote about the Messiah's blood back in Chapter 1.  Jesus' blood is the means through which God has accomplished redemption and forgiveness.  This was the great, once-and-for-all-time sacrifice that the Old Testament sacrificial system was pointing to all along.  In the Old Testament, sacrificial blood was like a disinfectant.  It cleansed the tabernacle and later the temple; and it cleansed the people of Israel so that the holy God could come to his people and dwell with them.  Pagan sacrifices were all about killing valuable animals to placate the gods.  In Israel, the sacrifices were all about the blood—a symbol of God-given life—and that blood was shed to wash away the stain of sin and death so that God could come and dwell and fellowship with his people.  Brothers and Sisters, the blood of Jesus, shed at the cross, has fully accomplished once and for all and for everyone what the Old Testament sacrifices did partially and temporarily.  And in doing that, God has abolished the law. You see, the law was the thing that set Israel apart from the rest of the world and Paul saw that wall in the court of the gentiles as symbolic of it.  The law, like that wall, kept the gentiles out of God's people, out of his covenant, and out of his promises.  The law marked out the gentiles as idolaters and as unclean—unworthy of God's presence.  But Jesus' blood has washed us clean—Jew and gentile alike—making both the law and the wall that kept the gentiles out irrelevant.  In Jesus, God had brought these Greek believers into the family—fully and no longer aliens and foreigners.  And why?  Paul goes on in the second half of verse 15: “The point of doing all this was to create, in him, one new humanity out of the two, so making peace.  God was reconciling  both of us to himself in a single body, through the cross, by killing the enmity in him.” Do you remember the first thing the risen Jesus said to his disciples when he entered that locked-up house where they were hiding after he'd been crucified?  It was “Peace”.  Shalom.  Peace is what the world looks like set to rights.  And so it makes perfect sense that “Peace” would be the first thing Jesus would say to his disciples after rising from death and inaugurating God's new creation.  He'd just begun the work of setting the world to rights.  And for Paul, this new humanity—Jews and gentiles, once divided by the law, but now brought together—this new humanity, the church, is the first sign of God's peace breaking out into the world.  The church is the sign of the new age.  As I've said before, we are God's working model of his new creation.  Jesus has killed the enmity that was once between us and he has reconciled both to God and, through that, to each other.  Jesus' blood as washed us clean and Paul stresses regularly to his fellow Jews, this means there's no longer any reason to consider gentile believers in Jesus to be unclean.  We gentiles, with hearts renewed by the Holy Spirit, have turned away from our idols to serve the living God and by the blood of Jesus he has washed us clean.  And if there's any doubt, Paul would point to the fact that the same Spirit has come to fill the gentile believers who first filled the Jewish believers.  So he goes on in verse 17: “So the [he Messiah] came and proclaimed peace, to you who were far off and to those who were near.  Through him we both have access to the Father in one Spirit.”  Again, it's all the fulfilment of God's promises.  In Isaiah 57 God had promised that he would heal the broken and humble in spirit and give peace: peace for those far off and peace for those who are near.  He's now done that in Jesus and the unity of the church—these people who were once separated, these people who once hated each other—their unity in the Messiah as one people is the proof, the testimony, the witness of God's faithfulness and the power of the gospel. And Paul, again, wants to drive this home.  Look at verses 19 to 22: “So then [—this is the result—] you are no longer foreigners and aliens.  No, you are fellow citizens with God's holy people.  You are members of God's household.  You are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Messiah Jesus himself as the cornerstone.  In him the whole building is fitted together, and grows into a holy temple in the Lord.  You, too, are being built up together, in him, into a place where God will live by the Spirit.” The point of all this is that through Jesus and the Spirit, the living God has welcomed us into this amazing story.  We've been adopted into a family that was not ours.  We were poor, dirty refugees without hope, but God has washed us clean in the blood of Jesus, he has made us welcome members of his family, and most importantly, he has come to dwell with us.  He has filled us—aliens, foreigners, strangers, gentiles—with his Spirit—the presence that he had promised to his own people and in doing that he has made us holy.  And just just because.  God has a purpose for us.  He always has. And this is where Paul stops hinting at things with temple language and imagery and comes out and says it: God has done this in order to establish a new temple.  For centuries the Jews had been waiting for God's presence to return to the temple, not that unlike the way so many Jews today go to the Western Wall and pray for a new temple and God's return.  Brother and Sisters, Paul's stressing that God has, in fact, returned, that he has built a new temple, and that he now dwells with his people.  But not in a stone building on the mountain above Jerusalem.  He has built is new temple and returned to live with his people through Jesus and the Spirit. And, again, that means that we—the church—are God's ongoing means of fulfilling his promises to set creation to rights.  God's presence with us is the sign that one day his presence will fill all of creation.  We are the temple, the working model of new creation.  As we proclaim the gospel, we proclaim the glories of God to the world.  As we live the gospel, we put on display the glories of God to the world.  And our unity in Jesus and the Spirit—something we've often forgotten—is one of the most important ways we ought to be living out the gospel.  Just as there was one temple in Israel, there is only one church.  By our divisions and schism and arguments, by our elevating language and race and nation over the gospel, we've often obscured this reality, but Brothers and Sisters, there is but one church and the unity of that one church across our natural divisions of language and race—and class, and status, and every other way the world divides and separates us—that unity is meant to be a witness.  A witness to the power of the gospel.  A witness to the power of Jesus and the cleansing power of his blood.  A witness to the Holy Spirit who indwells every believer.  And most of all, witness to the faithfulness of God, who has been true to his promises.  And through that, our unity becomes a witness to a bleak and hopeless world of God's coming new creation—not just of the world set to rights, but of humanity set to rights within it: one people, renewed and purified, in fellowship forever with the living God. Let's pray: Gracious Father, you have purified us by the blood of your Son and filled us with your Spirit to make us your temple.  Pour out your grace that we might be faithful stewards of the gifts you have given us.  Teach us to guard the unity of your church, so that the nations will see in us a witness to your mighty hand, your outstretched arm, and your great name.  And when they draw near, hear their prayers, we ask, that they might know your great name as we have, through your Son and through your Spirit.  Amen.

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Darren Maule's at his wits end with trying to help his daughter, Mouse, learn Afrikaans. No TV show has been able to keep her entertained, until she stumbled on ‘Die Kantoor' – The Afrikaans version of The Office. Mouse sent Flip Bosman, the boss in ‘Die Kantoor' a message – And the response was hilarious! Webpage

Die wêreld vier vandag Internasionale Moedertaaldag en Kosmos 94.1 vier natuurlik ons moedertaal, Afrikaans! Ons het gaan aanklop by Unam se departementshoof van geesteswetenskappe en kunste, en ook taalkunde professor Herman Beyer, wat wonder waarheen ons taal op pad is.

Internasionale Moedertaaldag word op 21 Februarie herdenk en op Kosmos 94.1 is Afrikaans die wagwoord. Vanjaar se tema is, “Die gebruik van tegnologie vir veeltalige onderrig: uitdagings en geleenthede”. Verlede jaar het ons 100 jaar van Afrikaans gevier, vanjaar kyk ons na die voortbou van ons taal. Kosmos 94.1 Nuus het met Elizma Theron, die voorsitter van die Windhoek FNB Woordfees gepraat, wat 'n oorsig gee oor hoe ons kan voortbou in Afrikaans wanneer die taal soveel uitdagings in die gesig staar.

CityMenderSA was created by KwaZuluNatal engineering student Keyuren Maharaj to help residents report and track local infrastructure problems, an idea sparked by his experience chairing a ratepayers' association in Durban. He told BizNews that the app began as a simple tool for documenting servicedelivery failures but has since grown into a national platform covering 36 categories of issues across South Africa.Reports logged on the app are escalated directly to municipal councils, with updates and followups managed through features like WhatsApp integration to encourage faster responses. Maharaj stresses that user privacy is central: the platform collects no personal data beyond the WhatsApp phone number. With AI now built in, CityMenderSA can estimate realtime water loss from leaks and analyse patterns across municipalities. When Maharaj ran the algorithm on seven months of Johannesburg data, even the small sample of issues logged on the app revealed hundreds of thousands of litres of water lost. Bootstrapped from the start, CityMenderSA is already available in Afrikaans, Zulu and English, with more African languages on the way. Maharaj describes it as a “virtual butler for service delivery.” Once an issue is logged, he says, users know it's being tracked, increasing the chances it will eventually be fixed.

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Môre word Internasionale Moedertaaldag wêreldwyd gevier – 'n inisiatief deur UNESCO om die waarde van moedertale te erken en taalkundige en kulturele diversiteit te bevorder. Die dag herdenk die studente van Bangladesj wat in 1952 hul lewens gegee het vir die reg op moedertaalonderrig – 'n geskiedenis wat ons herinner hoe kosbaar taal werklik is. Vandag fokus ons op Afrikaans as moedertaal. Is dit veilig? Of verkeer dit onder toenemende druk? Ons ondersoek die mite dat moedertaalonderrig mense eentalig maak en bespreek hoe dit juis 'n stewige grondslag lê vir die aanleer van ander tale. Met die 2026-tema wat die gebruik van tegnologie vir veeltalige onderrig beklemtoon, kyk ons ook na die rol van sosiale media, stromingsdienste en digitale platforms: Kan tegnologie nuwe lewe in Afrikaans blaas? En watter praktiese stappe kan gewone mense neem om die taal te beskerm en lewenskragtig uit te bou? 'n Diepgaande gesprek oor taal, identiteit en die toekoms van Afrikaans in 'n vinnig-veranderende wêreld.

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Louis, Ernst en Wian gesels oor AfriForum se nuwe hofsaak teen die Nasionale Gesondheidsversekeringswet.Hoekom dit nou belangrik is en wat ons kan verwag.

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Step into the mind of Sunken State frontman Dwayne Hees in this unfiltered episode of Sludge Underground. We look at his journey, having grown up in an Afrikaans household in Rustenburg, starting out as a vocalist before even touching vocals, and his pre-Sunken State days with links to MoshMallow bassist Reinhardt. Dwayne talks about how he met Mat Swanepoel and how Sunken State's OG lineup was formed. The episode also looks at Dwayne's nuanced views of cancel culture within the South African alternative scene, his side projects, and Sunken State's future. Lastly, we finally reveal the identity of the mystery person Dwayne doesn't like. Whether you're here for the music, stories, or tea, you cannot afford to miss this episode.Video by Nasiphi ZwaneThumbnail by Myke Taylor#SunkenState #MetalVocalist, #SouthAfricanBands #SludgeUnderground #MysteryReveal Explore our exclusive merch store for unique and high-quality items inspired by our podcast! From stylish t-shirts to snug beanies, there's something for every listener. Show your support and grab your favourite merch today!Support the showHelp us continue making great content for listeners everywhere by subscribing to Sludge Underground Podcast +Websitehttps://www.sludgeunderground.comMerchhttps://sludgeunderground.store/Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sludgeundergroundTikTokhttps://www.tiktok.com/@sludgeundergroundYouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@sludgeundergroundTwitterhttps://twitter.com/Sludge031Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/SludgeUnderground

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Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Send a textGoeiemôre aan al ons VARS-potgooivriende.  Ek is Jokkie Gauché en hier is VARSVANDAG se Eerste  Februarie Nuusbrief. Ek vertrou dat dit goed gaan met jou. Ons hoor van die verskriklike vure in die Suide en die ontsettende vloede in die Noorde, die ellende van Bek-en-Klouseer en ons wil vir julle almal sterkte en seën toebid.  Die boodskap van 3 Februarie oor die dissipels se ervaring tydens die storm op die see het my herinner aan iets wat ek ‘n ruk gelede oor Noag se Ark gelees het. Ontspan en DryfDie mees indrukwekkende detail van Noag se Ark is nie die grootte en krag van die vloed nie. Dit is die ontwerp van die boot. In Genesis 6 het God vir Noag baie spesifieke instruksies gegee oor die konstruksie van die boot. Maar enige ou sal jou vertel dat God baie noodsaaklike komponente uitgelaat het. Daar is geen stuur, geen seil, geen enjin en geen navigasie toerusting nie. Hoe kan dit werk? Noag sal geen beheer oor hierdie massiewe vaartuig hê nie. Hy sal nie van rotse kan wegstuur nie; hy sal dit nie in die golwe kan draai nie. Noag se werk sal wees om die Passasier, nie die Kaptein, te wees nie. God is die Kaptein. Dit is 'n prentjie van jou lewe. Jy probeer om te stuur in 'n situasie waar God wil hê jy net moet dryf. God het ‘n plan vir jou lewe...buite jou gemaksone! Dis so maklik vir jou om vir ander tot seën te wees ... Deur jou bydrae maak jy dit moontlik vir ons om duisende mense dwarsdeur die wêreld in Afrikaans te bereik. Wanneer ons praat van jou bydrae, praat ons nie net van geld nie, (alhoewel ons dit ook broodnodig het) maar veral van jou gebede vir die uitbreiding van Koninkryk van ons Here Jesus Christus deur die media. Kan jy dink dat iemand op pad na sy werk ‘toevallig' die radio aanskakel en ‘n boodskap hoor wat hom na Jesus lei? Of wat van daardie ouma, wat net rustig sit en brei met die radio in die agtergrond...Maar hoe kan 'n mens Hom aanroep as jy nie in Hom glo nie? En hoe kan jy in Hom glo as jy nie van Hom gehoor het nie (Romeine 10:14)Seënwense en mooi loopJokkie en Annelie en die VARS-span Aanlyn Betalingsopsies vir Christianityworks se bediening in RSA:Bank:                      First National Bank (FNB)Rekening naam:       Christianityworks NPCTakkode:                 250655Rekeningnommer:   6286 0951 550 https://christianityworks.co.za/af/donate/ vir aanlyn betalingsopsies.Support the showEnjoying The Content?For the price of a cup of coffee each month, you can enable Christianityworks to reach 10,000+ people with a message about the love of Jesus!DONATE R50 MONTHLY

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with GErda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Join Overland Journal Podcast host Ashley Giordano as she sits down with South African overlander Adrian Abrahams to discuss his love of traveling in Namibia, and how nearly a decade of overlanding has shaped a new 4x4 shop endeavor in Cape Town, South Africa. Adrian also provides practical advice about visiting the country, including destination recommendations, while Ashley tries to pronounce several Afrikaans words essential to the overland traveler.

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

Here's your latest Jacaranda FM Newswatch bulletin with Gerda de Sousa. Find more at https://www.jacarandafm.com/news/ More news here

#afrikaans #hunting #farmlife #storytimepodcast In this episode of Storytime, Joshua sits down with viral South African Afrikaans sensation Estean, whose interview and on-the-ground content from the 10s Sports Festival took the country by storm. After clips of his sharp, unapologetic takes spread across social media, Storytime brought him into the studio to talk all things South Africa.The conversation covers Estean's upbringing on a farm in Malmesbury, growing up Afrikaans, hunting culture, and working in the finance world. Joshua and Estean also dive into current cultural conversations, including the viral Donald Trump vs Trevor Noah debate, South African identity, and why his perspective resonated so strongly with audiences nationwide.For more information on Knox Hydration & the Founders Legacy Fund visit: http://knoxhydrate.com/founderslegacyfundTabletPOS, your leading mobile point of sale for the hospitality and retail industries within South Africa. Serving the best restaurants in South Africa. For more information visit - https://tabletpos.co.za/FOR MORE INFO Estean - https://www.instagram.com/estean_1/Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/Storytime Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/storytimepodcastjosh/LISTEN Spotify - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/... Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Amazon Podcast - https://a.co/d/cyCUGeB

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

The Nama people of Botswana are a small Indigenous community belonging to the wider Khoekhoe cultural and linguistic group of southern Africa. They live mainly in the southwestern parts of the country, especially around the Kgalagadi region, where their history is closely tied to pastoralism, herding livestock in arid environments. The Nama language, Khoekhoegowab, is known for its distinctive click sounds, though today many Nama also speak Setswana or Afrikaans. Despite their relatively small numbers in Botswana, the Nama have worked to preserve their cultural traditions, oral history, and identity in the face of migration, colonial borders, and modernization. To preserve the Nama language in Botswana, and to communicate in the language of the Nama people, a new online Nama language radio station has been launched in 2026 Nichodimas Cooper tells us more. Produced by Shaldon Ferris (Khoi/San) Interviewee: Nicodemus Cooper (Nama) Music: "Burn your village to the ground", by The Haluci Nation, used with permission. "Anania2" by The Baba Project, used with permission.

Podlitiek het 'n spesiale gas in die ateljee: Wian Spies. Die manne gesels oor die groot nuus van die week (en eintlik al langer as dit). Wian is beter ingegrawe op die wetlike aspekte van BKS inenting en deel sy insigte daaroor.

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Martin Bester has been wondering why some Afrikaans people choose to speak to each other in English. The conversation quickly broadened to South Africans as a whole, exploring why people sometimes opt not to speak to one another in their home language. This is what South Africans had to say.

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Die (DA) Minister van Kommunikasie en Digitale Tegnologie, Solly Malatsi, wil potgooie laat registreer en reguleer (maar Podlitiek sal ons nie laat keer).Intussen het News24 en The Citizen nwe apologieë geplaas vir foutiewe beriggewing oor AfriForum. Ernst en Louis vra of dit alles net per ongeluk is?Die Podlitiek-span bestaan uit:Louis BoshoffErnst van Zyl Arno Roodt

#afrikaansrap #southafricahiphop #biggy #podcast #storytimepodcast In this episode of Storytime, Joshua sits down with Biggy, one of the most exciting voices in Afrikaans hip-hop. Biggy opens up about his upbringing, discovering rap while working as a factory worker, and the early days of making music with nothing but passion and belief. He speaks honestly about the unwavering support of his mother, the sacrifices behind the scenes, and what it took to step onto stages and perform live for the first time.The conversation dives into the first music Biggy ever recorded, the journey toward releasing multiple hit singles that put him on the map, and how his sound has evolved over time. Biggy also gives insight into his creative process and shares what fans can expect from his upcoming new music, marking an exciting next chapter in his career.For more information on Knox Hydration & the Founders Legacy Fund visit: http://knoxhydrate.com/founderslegacyfundTabletPOS, your leading mobile point of sale for the hospitality and retail industries within South Africa. Serving the best restaurants in South Africa. For more information visit - https://tabletpos.co.za/FOR MORE INFO Biggy - https://www.instagram.com/bigbiggerbiggy/Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/Storytime Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/storytimepodcastjosh/

#frannajacobs #storytimepodcast #podcast In this episode of Storytime, Joshua sits down with South African actor François Jacobs. Known for his powerful on-screen presence, François has built a respected career across film and television, appearing in some of South Africa's most popular and long-running productions. His work includes notable roles in projects such as Khaki Fever, 7de Laan, Op My Eish, Kaalgat Karel, Wanderlus, Donkerland and many more. François reflects on his journey as an actor, the craft behind bringing characters to life, and what it takes to sustain a career in the local industry. The conversation offers insight into his experiences on set, the evolution of South African storytelling, and the realities of working in film and television today.For more information on Knox Hydration & the Founders Legacy Fund visit: http://knoxhydrate.com/founderslegacyfundTabletPOS, your leading mobile point of sale for the hospitality and retail industries within South Africa. Serving the best restaurants in South Africa. For more information visit - https://tabletpos.co.za/FOR MORE INFO Franna Jacobs - https://www.instagram.com/franna.jacobs/Joshua Eady - https://www.instagram.com/justblamejosh/Storytime Podcast - https://www.instagram.com/storytimepodcastjosh/

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Senegal heeft voor de 2de keer de Afrika Cup voetbal gewonnen. Na een tumultueuze wedstrijd versloeg het Marokko na verlengingen met 1-0. Kenner van het Afrikaans voetbal, Tom Saintfiet, schat in hoe fel de kater is bij de Marokkanen. In ons land prijkt Sint-Truiden op de 2de plaats. Trainer Wouter Vrancken leest het sprookje van zijn ploeg voor. En ex-zeilster kroop in 2025 door het oog van de naald, na een ontsteking van de hartspier. Bijna een jaar later doet ze voor het eerst haar verhaal.

Tannie Angie se vloot oefen saam met die anti-Westerse magte (of voorsien ten minste die water vir hulle om in te oefen). Gerugte dat die Irannese skepe op die laaste nippertjie moes onttrek, blyk toe vals te wees. Intussen besluit die Amerikaanse Huis van Verteenwoordigers om AGOA te verleng, maar dis nog 'n oop vraag of Suid-Afrika steeds ingesluit sal wees.Die Podlitiek-span bestaan uit:Ernst van ZylArno RoodtLouis Boshoff

Tune in every Monday at 08:15 AM on the HFM Breakfast Show for Taal Toffies with Dr Willem Botha, former Editor-in-Chief of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal (WAT). It's a fun, bite-sized taal treat where Dr Willem unpacks an Afrikaans word or phrase — what it means, where it comes from, and how we use it in everyday life. Clever, quirky, and guaranteed to add a little taal-flavour to your Monday morning!

Podlitiek se manne het die vakansie gaan lees, peins, filosofeer en die wêreld rustig bekyk. Nou gesels hulle oor die temas, narratiewe en gebeure wat moontlik 2026 gaan oorheers.Die Podlitek-span bestaan uit:Louis BoshoffErnst van ZylArno Roodt

I greet you in Jesus' precious name! It is Tuesday morning, the 6th of January, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in Romans 1:17:“The just (or righteous) shall live by faith.” Then we go to the Book of Habakuk 2:4:”But the just shall live by his faith.” Then we go to Galatians 3:11, says the same thing. I think the Lord is trying to tell us something today.Now, as we start the new year, I want to encourage you to ask the Lord to give you a scripture that you can hang onto for the whole year. The Lord has given me this very scripture for this year. Yes, and the righteous shall live by faith. You see, my dear friends, we cannot live without it. In fact, we cannot exist without faith in God, not faith in faith but faith in God. So as we start the new year, we're into our sixth day, I want to encourage you to discipline yourself and start to live by faith and not by chance or by hoping for the best.Us farmers have a saying. In the Afrikaans language, it is, ”Die Boer maak 'n plan.' (The farmer makes a plan). Well, I tried for many, many years to make my own plans when I was farming and they never worked. When I started to trust in the Lord, then my plans began to fall into place, but I can hear one young farmer asking me a question, ”How do you get that faith?” The answer is found in the Book of Romans 10:17: ”So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” So if you want more faith, you need to spend more time reading your Bible and that will encourage you to walk by faith.I want to tell you a little story. In 1993, I came back from Scotland. I had been preaching over there and on my way back I felt the Lord tell me, by faith, to write my story. Now I have a limited education. I had never had any experience in writing before, and we wrote a little book called ”Faith like potatoes.” Folks, that book is now in 17 languages. A movie has been made of that book, which is still being shown all over the world. It is a miracle. It is not possible for me to do something like that, but by faith, I stepped out the boat and I trusted the Lord.This year together, let us start to walk by faith and expect great things from the Lord. Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day.Goodbye.

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