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South Africa Twenty

TRANSCRIPTION
I’m a third year drama student at the Tshwane University of Technology, which used to be the, be the old Pretoria Technicon. I’m a twenty one year old Pisces and I went, I went to a bilingual high school, so I had class in Afrikaans and English.  Both of my parents are Afrikaans and so I grew up in an Afrikaans family which obviously then I spoke Afrikaans the whole time.  I was born in a small little town on the east rand of South Africa called Nigel. It has always been a little farm town where most of the people only speak Afrikaans. And that’s about it for  me, because I don’t, because I grew up in an Afrikaans family and only when I got to the Technicon, the tertiary institution where I study now, I really started speaking English, more often.

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY KARINA LEMMER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR SOUTH AFRICA,  12 April, 2008

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