Posted on November 29, 2012
Professor G.J. (Jakes) Gerwel (66) passed away on Wednesday, 28 November 2012. He was a professor in Afrikaans literature, erstwhile rector of the University of the Western-Cape and the first post-1994 director-general in the office of President Nelson Ma
Posted on October 24, 2012
Prof Andries Visagie and Ms Jacomien van Niekerk elected to the management committee of the Afrikaanse letterkundevereniging
Posted on October 18, 2012
On 19 October 2012, the Afrikaans writer Elsa Joubert celebrated her ninetieth birthday.
Posted on February 22, 2012
Nanna Haug Hilton, Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics, Department of Frisian Language and Culture, University of Groningen, is visiting the Department of Afrikaans, UP, on Monday, 27 February, and will present a talk.
Posted on February 21, 2012
Two members of the Department of Afrikaans contributed to the recently published and long-awaited Cambridge History of South African Literature (edited by David Attwell and Derek Attridge from the University of York, United Kingdom).
Posted on February 17, 2012
Modernism in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature; Cognitive Linguistics
Posted on September 23, 2011
Professor Hein Willemse of the Department of Afrikaans at UP has been the editor of the literary journal Tydskrif vir Letterkunde since 2003. The journal's 75th birthday was celebrated on the 8th of September 2011 with a small function held in the Merensk
Posted on September 19, 2011
Two UP linguists, Dr. Nerina Bosman (Department of Afrikaans) and Prof. Elsab
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