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They just spoke Afrikaans; still common to the mines/rural jobs today, regardless of genetics.
by armatav 3y ago
They just spoke Afrikaans; still common to the mines/rural jobs today, regardless of genetics.
- ggm 3y agoOdd. I have a history book I can't lay my hands on right now (books in storage) which said there was a mining jargon for the Swahili, Xhosa, Sesotho and Swazi workers they all had to learn. It's called Fanakalo. Apparently its like a pidgin with a lot of Bantu. But if you say they gave up and just used Africaans I can believe it.
- hobs 3y agohttps://www.sahistory.org.za/article/fanakalo-language-mining-culture https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/fanakalo-language-minin...