Afrikaans wording on road markings

[benbezuidenhout]

I would prefer signs being in English/Afrikaans+Zulu/Xhosa.. then just English :/

[Marmalade000000]

As far as I remember, being a South African myself - English and Afrikaans are the most widely spoken languages in South Africa - even today... nothing's changed. Maximum, they could also put Zulu on sinage - as it's the third most popular language spoken in South Africa

[Trafalgar8766]

Just imagine the crazyness of 11 words on signs!!

[NeoFalcon69]

What they doing in New Zealand is to replace the word "stop" with a Hexagon on the ground.

They already done it with the older "give way" ones and replaced them with a triangle.

Maybe a similar thing could be suggested to your government?

[Ewekansig]

Actually Zulu is spoken the most, followed by Afrikaans and then English

[benbezuidenhout]

@Ewekansig actually Zulu is followed by Xhosa, THEN Afrikaans.. English comes 5th after N. Sotho.

[Ewekansig]

@benbezuidenhout Ek sien nou ek was verkeerd, dankie!

[benbezuidenhout]

@Ewekansig geen probleem :)

[WGMDelko]

Al hoe ons regering slag gatte reg maak is as hulle borde opsit wat se "Beware of potholes". Look sir, I fixed de road.

[Greggybread]

My mom lives in boksburg and the amamunicipality changed the street signs with road names on to new signs. All they had to do was read the old one and copy the name to the new one. The idiots spelled half of them wrong

[Greggybread]

Why do they paint road signs on the road. With the standard of education, half of the nation cant read the fucking things anyway

[rcmasterJ]

ratama troppa

[Everzwyn]

hoekom julle doen nie soos ons in België nie? taalgrense! hier praat ons nederlands, daar praat ons frans... alles word in die taal van dié deel van die land geskryf. Die westelike Suid-Afrika is 'n oorwegend Afrikaanstalige gebied, en ek dink dit moet so bly!!

[benbezuidenhout]

@Everzwyn it won't work, Afrikaans people (white Afrikaners) live in the East (Pretoria, Rustenburg etc.) these are their homeland, not the arid west? Those are Coloured speaking Afrikaans and Afrikaners don't really live there.

[Spacekriek]

Teen die tempo waarteen die huidige, vrotsige regering ons paaie en strate laat verbrokkel sal daar binnekort niks wees om op te verf nie... :)

[stevensheps]

ons almal weet wat jy daar wou se dit ganie meer oor engels en afr nie ek voel minder daarvoor maar as hulle kom met die kak van potch word tjlokwe en pietersburs is mos polokwane en pretoria ander kak hulle vat oor man !

[ampersandtay]

Ja, ek is engels en jy moet stadig praat boet as ek kan nie die afrikaans se taal vinig praat nie. Maar op nege-en-sestag, ek kan nie ook Engels vinig praat nie :-)

Hope that's OK as I last spoke Afrikaans in 1955.

[pello777]

Last spoke Afrikaans in 1955??? Forgive me for asking this, but how old are you Sir/Madam? And it appears you still remember the language well, maximum respect to you.

[windowsofmymind]

They should not paint anything on the roads..no one stops in anycase ....lol

[Nettaiya87]

I think the two MOST spoken languages should be used, not 11, just the two, I can understand your dislike.

[NeoFalcon69]

O_o Ditch the words and use a hexagon symbol - they do that for "giveways" here by painting a triangle.

[NeoFalcon69]

Imagine if we had all 11 official languages painted on the road.

[noway24]

gebruik die tale wat in dié stad gepraat word. hoe moeilik is dit? as daar 'n grote afrikaanse gemeinskap is gebruik afrikaans, en as die plaaslikke taal zoeloe of xhosa is, skryf dit! die enigste probleem is dat engels nêrens 'n meerderheidstaal is, en dit sal in die strate sterf!

[stefan610]

Standard Bank South AFrica seem to have the right idea. In a new branch I saw yesterday that they use English, Afrikaans and a black language on all signage.

[rigolissimo]

Good ! Well done.

[chanctonbury63]

@stefan610

Black language.............(!)

[jameskap]

Ok on a serious note, i do seriously understand this but do you really think the government are willing to listen, maybe you should be fighting against the changing of prominent afrikaans street names, even then you will be fighting a losing battle.Just enjoy how it is now.

[jameskap]

well then please go and write all road marking in the 11 official languages, Stop being jelous, i know you would like to be like us sproudly south africans (not afrikans) but obviously you cant, pls leave leave country cause you cant bare it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA­AHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap,

You are being obstinate. I have already told you, a practical solution : paint the two most spoken languages or the most spoken local one and English, this on a municipality basis (for instance in Wierda Park, Pretoria this is a solid Afrikaans neighbourhood, Afrikaners pay local taxes, why not *respect* them and also right Afrikaans on the streets ?). Is thi sso difficult for you to understand?

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap again tried to make sense (and failed).

1) I suppose for you any kind of injustice is just jealousy.

2) Being proud South Africans does not mean worshipping English only (which you defend)

3) The Afrikaners cannot get more Afrikaans by leaving South Africa, it is not written anywhere else (except Namibia but there again English was promoted as only official languages).

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap said: "South africa is way better than it ever used to be and i couldn give a crap about those few who are moaning, because it is only a selective few that still have this present day racist mindset."

There we have it: simplistic "logic". Apartheid is gone, thus for you all other hypocrisies, crimes, injustices are nothing compared to it, in fact if you dare complain about them you are a obviously a racist.

This rhetoric may appeal to, but from a far it is plainly ludicrous.

[rigolissimo]

3) Obviously, this is hypocrisy. You cannot at the same time say that you are for diversity (the 11 official language bit on paper) and then in reality only promote a single language.

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap,

I thought I already answered, but let me try again:1) By your reasoning the Blacks (or anyone else) should not have complained about the injustices inflicted upon them, they shoiuld just have left.

2) You are really turning tables when you say that the Afrikaners are unwilling to "accomodate our fellow cultures" when the only culture being accomodated is English !

[jameskap]

Rigo, I am saying to those few if you dont like the new south africa tough go else where because you are all unwilling to change and accomodate our fellow cultures. .

South africa is way better than it ever used to be and i couldn give a crap about those few who are moaning, because it is only a selective few that still have this present day racist mindset.

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap:

"if you dont like the new south africa tough go else where because you are all unwilling to change and accomodate our fellow cultures. ."

[jameskap]

who gives a dam, tough crap you dont like it leave

[rigolissimo]

Jameskap, a rather stupid comment if I may say.

1) Leave to go where to have afrikaans respected (English is spoken by less people than Afrikaans as a mother tongue in SA).

2) With your kind of "reasoning", the Blacks should have left SA if they did not like Apartheid, not fight it and denounce it.

[ExpatJ]

Ek hou ook Afrikaans suiwer hier in Nederland....

[SAinAucklandNZ]

come on, I agree let it go, don't rely on writing in the road to keep Afrikaans alive!! english is a good choice of language to put on the road as it works well for the people of south africa and tourists!! to keep all SA happy you'd need to write every sign in 11 languages!! Well look at it this way atleast dit is nie in n swaarte taal nie, that way nobody would ever stop!!

[rigolissimo]

This is the typical argument to remove Afrikaans from everywhere except from the home: it is too expensive to do it in two languages or, of course, 11. So let everything be only in English: roads, airports, forms, public announcements, TV shows, memos at work.

This is how language are suppress and die.

[rigolissimo]

Forgot to say, that there is another solution: regional bilingualism (for instance at least Afrikaans everywhere where it is a majority language, viz. the Cape, in the suburbs where it is, viz. Pretoria, Centurion, Bloemfontein, etc.)

[tantjies]

Gaan check die video out 'Orania'. Praat van opbou uit niks nie. Werk vir wat jy wil hê. My twee dogters in Engeland verstaan Afriaans baie goed, praat maar swaar, maar verstaan - dit is so naby aan flaams en Hollands - so Europa kan ook nog 'n toekoms wees. Ons vir jou Afrikaans. 'F' SA!

[Hansie0Slim]

Mense sal eers wakker word wanneer Pretoria Tswane word en Suid-Afrika iets anders - waarskynlik nie Azania nie, maar iets met 'n Khoi-San inslag - soos die nuwe landswapen en leuse. Dink vooruit mense, ons moet vir ons 'n hartland vestig waarvandaan ons weer ons trots en ons mag kan opbou.

[Kopskoot]

"Let go" se gat. Ons word nou alklaar lelik verengels. Hou vas aan jou taal en moet nooit ophou die huidige regime te taster nie.

[praatafrikaanz]

Let go man, let go! Move on!

[snippie123]

let go jou gat. Move on to what? Killing of our language?

[soaressoaressoares]

Get over yourselves!!

[switch3332003]

Jy weet mos hoekom dit nie meer gedoen word nie. Maar baie dankie vir die video nou het ek ook weer a straat van RSA gesien.

[punklet88]

kom engeland toe