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EPISODE · Jan 29, 2026 · 24 MIN

South Africans share why they sometimes don’t speak their home language

from Breakfast with Martin Bester · host Jacaranda FM

Martin Bester has been wondering why some Afrikaans people choose to speak to each other in English. The conversation quickly broadened to South Africans as a whole, exploring why people sometimes opt not to speak to one another in their home language. This is what South Africans had to say.

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