Their rejection of bilingualism underlined their aim to make Afrikaans and Afrikaners paramount in South Africa.
He took refuge in London after exposing the group in an interview with a liberal Afrikaans newspaper.
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But most native English-speakers opt for Afrikaans, said to be easy to learn, rather than a useful but harder African tongue.
Last year, when he sought to relaunch the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (better known by its Afrikaans initials, AWB), only a few hundred people turned up.
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One was in Afrikaans, a South African language derived from Dutch.
Beeld, an Afrikaans language newspaper, has reported the Pistorius family owns 55 weapons -- between his father, grandfather and two uncles -- not counting Oscar's six guns.
"Tsotsi, " in Afrikaans as well as urban dialects, with English subtitles, was adapted from the only novel thus far by the great South African playwright Athol Fugard.
One is a modernising Afrikaner, who led the Nats' negotiations to end apartheid and was a bold would-be reformer of a party still set in its Afrikaans-speaking ways.
Some people suggest reducing the number of official languages to a more manageable three: English, Afrikaans and Zulu, the mother tongue of nearly a quarter of South Africans.
The sole inclusions from sub-Saharan Africa are Swahili and Afrikaans.
Steenkamp's father, Barry Steenkamp, told the Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld for a story Saturday that if Pistorius is lying about how she died, he will have to live with his conscience.
When you fly on Emirates Airlines, the pilots need several full breaths to list the languages spoken by the staff, usually including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Afrikaans, Bulgarian and half-dozen others.
Today most young Indians speak only English or are bilingual in English and Afrikaans, though they may continue to chat at home in a kind of pidgin English larded with Indian and Zulu.
The Afrikaans-language Beeld newspaper had the image of what it said was Pistorius, who was charged with murder for the Valentine's Day shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on the front page of its Thursday edition.
He was a connoisseur of fine wine and he never allowed his grievances over the Boer war, and over the gradual eclipse of Afrikaans by the English language in South Africa, to blind him to the glories of English literature.
In a country known for beaches, wine country and wildlife, the rock art of the Cederberg is very much worth a visit, too, and the pleasures here are heightened by the comforts of Bushmans Kloof (aloof being the Afrikaans word for "gorge").
While the other parties also claim to represent all South Africans, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) is mostly backed by Zulus, the Democratic Alliance appeals to English-speaking whites, the New National Party is backed by Afrikaans speakers, both coloured and white, and so on.
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