Sien, du plessis, dis wat my die josie
in maak. Hierdie stuk Engels het niks
met SA te make nie, en is nie in
Afrikaans nie. Nogtans pos jy dit op
die Afrikaanse nuusgroep in direkte
ontkenning van die oktrooi van hierdie
nuusgroep. En dan is ek seker dis
mense soos jy wat hulle bekke rek
as die SAUK "nie genoeg Afrikaans
uitsaai nie."
Hopelijk kan iedereen dit begrijpen ^_^ . Mijn naam is Andrew en ik
kom uit Nederland. Ikzelf vind Afrikaans een hele coole taal, vooral
omdat het zoveel op Nederlands lijkt. Over het algemeen kunnen
Nederlands sprekende mensen Afrikaans goed verstaan. Ik weet niet of
jullie dit weten, misschien wel, maar er word ook Nederlands gesproken
in Zuid- Amerika in o.a. Suriname en op de eilanden Curacao, Aruba en
misschien ook op St. Maarten. En Vlaams kunnen we al helemaal
verstaan. Verder lijkt Zweeds en Deens en natuurlijk Duits ook een
beetje op Nederlands maar niet zoveel als Afrikaans.
Hoe is hierdie kommentaar van die British Council in Namibië wat ek op
'n blog raakloop: http://vry.blogsome .com/
vry
8 February 2007
How can we get the English off our backs?
Filed under: Africa Politics, Languages, Afrikaans, English
According to the outgoing director of the British Council in Namibia,
Patience Mahlalela, the Afrikaans language is responsible for the slow
development of English in schools and the general public in the
country.
"Too much Afrikaans is still spoken by everyone. This is very
detrimental to the development of English as the official language in
the country in general. But, as long as the political will is there
and the willingness of the people persists, the English language will
eventually take its rightful place as a communication tool."
My question is, is it right that the British council seeks to promote
English in a way that sees indigenous languages as a problem? An
obstable in the way of English dominating everywhere and everything
even more than it is already?
I don't think it is right, and I think we should name it as it is: neo-
colonialism.
Why should English, a world language with powerful financial,
technological and military factors that favour it be promoted? When
will British people begin to seek the promotion and survival of small
languages instead of trying to stamp them out?
Ek het gewonder of daar mense is wat kan help met opleiding van
onbevoegde mense.
My vriende is raadop. Hulle word ge-intimideer deur benadeelde mense
om ander benadeelde mense op te lei en deur te sit wat ten doel is om
Lugbeheerders te word op die einde van die dag.
Lugbeheerders beheer vliegtuie in die lug. Dit beteken dat die
vlieenier van 'n Boeing 777 met +-400 pasassiers, bevele van die
Lugbeeerder moet uitvoer, inderwaarheid, sy pasassiers se veiligheid
moet onderwerp aan die lugbeheerder se besluite.
Al ooit gedink wat 'n benadeelde kan doen by die Johannesburgse
Lughawe met Mbeki se Boeing?
O-ja - ek het vergeet, net begunstigdes land by Johannesburg, die
benadeeldes land mos by Waterkloof Lugmagbasis waar net begunstigdes
as lugbeheerders gebruik word.
Dieselfde geld vir Brandweeropleiding, wie sal nou ooit kon dink dat
water nie op chemiese brande gebruik kan word nie? Wat is chemies tog
in elk geval?
Ek was vir so 2 weke weg gewees, en ek weet nie of daar in die tydperk iets
dramaties gebeur het nie, maar dit wil so voorkom want hier is amper niemand
meer hier nie.
Dit laat my dink aan iets wat die siener gesê het oor 'n burgeroorlog
in Rusland en dan ..........
Filed under: Asia
Do you dare to imagine Russia's reaction if a wolfpack of NATO
helicopters plunged into Chechnya by night, violating Russian air
space to do so, in order to attack Russia-friendly forces seeking to
subjugate the Chechen rebels? Can you imagine how Russia would wail to
high heaven about "provocation" and the "territorial integrity" of
Russia?
Other countries, it seems, are not entitled to any such attitudes.
Especially not Georgia.
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not denying that, as the
Jamestown Foundation reports: "an air attack on Georgia's upper Kodori
Valley during the night of March 11-12 was carried out by Russian
helicopters." JF describes the carnage:
Two or three helicopters violated Georgia's internationally recognized
air space over the upper Kodori Valley that night, flying in from
Russia's Karachaevo-Cherkessia region. The helicopters, apparently of
the Mi-24 type, fired at least 20 guided projectiles, damaging the
local government headquarters, a school, and some other civilian
administration buildings in several villages. The damaged building in
the village of Chkhalta is shared by the government office and a
school. This attack is at least the fifth Russian violation of
Georgian air space in the upper Kodori Valley in the last six months.
It is, however, the first incident when weapons were fired. Georgian
radar recorded all of those incidents, but Georgian police stationed
in the area have long been instructed not to fire.
The Kodori Valley, see map above, borders Abkhazia, a region of
Georgia agitating for independence in exactly the same way Chechnya
has been doing against Russia for years now. Yet while Russia insists
no foreign nation can dare to "interfere" in Chechnya, Russia
apparently has no problem making military incursions against pro-
Georgian forces in Abkhazia. The JF reports:
According to the ministry's chief spokesman, Mikhail Kamynin, the
incident is a "logical result" of Georgia's July 2006 decision to re-
establish control over this part of Abkhazia and install authorities
loyal to Tbilisi there. Even more explicitly, Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Grigory Karasin describes the air incident as part of
an "action-reaction" process, triggered by Tbilisi's "destabilizing"
decision last year, with consequences now and perhaps down the road.
He warns, "This incident sends a strong message to those who are
attempting to destabilize" the situation." By this logic, the re-
establishment of Georgia's legitimate authority in the anarchic no-
man's land that used to be upper Kodori is destabilizing,
notwithstanding the actual stabilization and rapid economic
development of the area in the secure environment that exists since
July 2006. Further, by Moscow's official logic, the air attack on
Kodori should serve as proof that Georgia is destabilizing the area.
It reflects Moscow's traditional belief that Georgia's stability and
prosperity are incompatible with Russian interests.
The JF notes: "An investigative report is due for release in the next
few days under a United Nations imprint. The political issue at hand
is whether the UN would, as usual, seek to obscure Russia's
responsibility." It's more than obvious that if the UN is prepared to
accept the conclusion that "Georgia's stability and prosperity are
incompatible with Russian interests" and therefore sweep this incident
under the carpet, it may have outlived its usefulness. Whether Russia
is seeking to actually annex the territory of Abkhazia by attacking
the chokepoint border area time after time, or just to destabilize the
anti-Russian government in Tbilisi (against which it has already tried
to foment a coup d'etat), the world must send a clear message to
Russia that its actions are intolerable http://publiuspundit.com/2007/03/is_russia_trying_to_annex_a bkh.php
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