Prominente advokaat in VSA gesels oor sy liefde vir Afrikaans

Afrikaans is ʼn ryk en unieke taal. Suid-Afrika sal intellektueel armer wees as daar nie plek vir die taal in sy akademie en hoër onderwysinstellings is nie.

So het Robert O’Brien, ʼn prominente advokaat van Los Angeles, Kalifornië, in ’n eksklusiewe onderhoud met Forum Nuus gesê.

O’Brien het al verskeie topposisies binne die Bush-administrasie beklee en was voorheen bekendes soos die ruimtevaarder Buzz Aldrin se regsverteenwoordiger.

O’Brien was ook destyds een van die topstudente van die Universiteit van Kalifornië se Los Angeles kampus (UCLA) wat deur ʼn internasionale beursfonds gekies is om in 1986 as uitruilstudent in Suid-Afrika te kom studeer.

Hy praat vandag nog Afrikaans en sy vrou voer maandeliks vir hom kopieë van De Kat en Huisgenoot in om te lees.

O’Brien is ʼn oudstudent van prof. Jacques du Plessis, ʼn voormalige dosent in Afrikaans aan die Universiteit van Wisconsin en UCLA, wat hom beywer vir die navorsing en ontwikkeling

New venue in London gives South Africans a taste of home

For many South Africans living in London, that perfect taste of home can be somewhat elusive. Outside of a few get-togethers around friends’ houses, it is hard to find those authentic flavours. This is where bbar in Victoria comes to the rescue.

The chic little South African restaurant and cocktail bar is part of the Red Carnation group of properties, owned by prominent hotelier Beatrice Tollman. An expat South African herself, Mrs Tollman has more than 40 years of experience as an ambassador of South African flavours in London. bbar is a great place to go and relieve your homesickness and entertain a few friends, safe in the knowledge you are in expert hands.

Menus change seasonally at bbar, but some dishes have earned permanent places, like their famous Cape Malay Chicken Curry, which always delights diners with its bold flavours. Twists on classics such as the Bobotie Spring Rolls and Full African Breakfast, served with boerewors and Chakalaka, have kept bba

100,000 Whites flee anti-white South Africa as over ten times more Africans arrive from Africa, DESPITE “xenophobia”

An estimated total of 95,158 whites have left South Africa since 2011, according to a new Statistics SA report released on Thursday.

According to the 2015 mid-year population estimates, in the same period 1,067,937 Africans and 40,929 Asians migrated to South Africa.

The figures took into account total departures and total arrivals over the period.

Statistician-general Pali Lehohla, speaking at the release of the 2015 mid-year population estimates in Pretoria, suggested that while Stats SA had not done any migration studies, it could be assumed the estimates were influenced by employment opportunities.

“It can be assumed and working from theory, migrants tend to go where there is employment and looking at the age structure of Gauteng, you can conclude reasonably well it’s because of the supposed job opportunities that are there, that migrants are coming in,” he said.

Touching on white migration, Lehohla said there was a trend among white children,