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This comes after Theron, in a recent interview, told the hosts of a popular podcast show that she found Afrikaans to be a dying and unhelpful language, with only 44 people in South Africa still using the dialect.<\/p>\n
Theron told the hosts that while in South Africa, she did not speak English because her entire neighbourhood was Afrikaans-speaking.<\/p>\n
The Oscar-winning actress has ruffled some feathers with her \u201canti-Afrikaans comments\u201d.<\/p>\n
AfriForum\u2019s head of cultural affairs, Alana Bailey, said Theron was far from correct in her views. Bailey said more than 6 million people in South Africa spoke Afrikaans.<\/p>\n
Wikipedia notes that: \u201cAbout 13.5% of the South African population (7 million people) speak Afrikaans as a first language, making it the third most common natively-spoken language in the country, after Zulu and Xhosa. It has the widest geographic and racial distribution of the 11 official languages and is widely spoken and understood as a second or third language, although Zulu and English are estimated to be understood as a second language by a much larger proportion of the population.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the majority language of the western half of South Africa \u2013 the provinces of the Northern Cape and Western Cape \u2013 and the first language of 75.8% of coloured South Africans (4.8 million people), 60.8% of white South Africans (2.7 million people), 1.5% of black South Africans (600\u00a0000 people), and 4.6% of Indian South Africans (58\u00a0000 people).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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