Die Akademie en die Afrikaanse radio: 70

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Title:	Die Akademie en die Afrikaanse radio: 70
Author:	Kapp, Pieter
Year:	2007
Periodical:	Tydskrif vir geesteswetenskappe
Volume:	47
Issue:	4
Pages:	587-597
Language:	Afrikaans
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	radio Afrikaans language
Abstract:	The year 2007 is the commemoration of the 70th birthday of the official Afrikaans Radio Service (Afrikaanse Radiodiens), today known as Radio Sonder Grense. The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns played a significant role in promoting the development of quality programmes in Afrikaans, the use of a high standard of the language in public broadcasting and the eventual establishment of a separate Afrikaans radio service. The decision in 1995 to change the name of the SAUK (Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie) to SABC (South African Broadcasting Corporation), and to rename the Afrikaanse Radiodiens Radio Sonder Grense, while the English Service was called South Africa FM, is indicative of the changing attitude towards Afrikaans. It was henceforth to be regarded as not truly South African but as only serving an unspecified community. After 1995 the Akademie experienced the closing of a number of doors to its close cooperation at the SABC. Notes, ref., sum. in Afrikaans and English, text in Afrikaans. [Journal abstract]