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CLICKED ON PHONICS

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November 6th 2007
CLICKED ON PHONICS Sometimes I wonder. I wonder what South Africa would be like for us if only Afrikaans and Xhosa were spoken. No accented English. Just the throat clearing guttural sounds of the old Dutch, and the clicking, wood on wood sounds of this local African language. If English were not universally spoken here we would no doubt resort to a little phrase book a ... read more

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more