The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn't happened.
Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government's ploy to construct it as a "white language", with a "white history", denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
A South African novel, published in 1980 and dealing with the Soweto student uprising four years earlier, still provides lessons for students today.