[Image: Facebook / Graaff-Reinet Magazine] Graaff-Reinet’s 240-Year Language Secret Is Written On A Letter Box For close to two and a half centuries, the oldest town in the Eastern Cape has been doing something linguistically rare in South Africa. English and Afrikaans have not merely coexisted in Graaff-Reinet. They have interwoven so thoroughly that locals routinely hold conversations in which each person speaks a different language, and neith…
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