Let's not stay locked in our little monolingual world...
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper. A nostalgic sepia-coloured photo was posted on our three-generation family WhatsApp group the other day. This miserable Covid-19 pandemic tends to trigger nostalgia. My mother’s handwritten caption was: “Off to Taal Plaas Sept 1974”. The nine-year-old me was framed by a train window. A messy DIY haircut framed my scrunched-up face of bewilderment and fear as I forced a smile before departing for a weekend away to learn Afrikaans on a farm outside Cape Town. My well-intentioned, tweetalige parents reckoned that I needed to sharp...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za