Afrikaans wording on road markings

In the past, municipalities in South Africa used to use both English and Afrikaans in road markings. After 11 languages became official in 1994, the use of Afrikaans has diminished, as shown in the disappearance of Afrikaans road markings.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Afrikaans
• road
• markings
• South
• Africa

[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.

[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!!

[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...  :)

[benbezuidenhout]

@Ewekansig geen probleem :)

[Ewekansig]

@benbezuidenhout Ek sien nou ek was verkeerd, dankie!

[benbezuidenhout]

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

[benbezuidenhout]

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

[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.

[chanctonbury63]

@stefan610

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

[Ewekansig]

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

[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?

[Trafalgar8766]

Just imagine the crazyness of 11 words on signs!!

[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

[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

[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.

[rcmasterJ]

ratama troppa

[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.

[windowsofmymind]

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

[NeoFalcon69]

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

[Nettaiya87]

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

[NeoFalcon69]

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

[rigolissimo]

Good ! Well done.