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Learn Afrikaans with AfrikaansPod101.com! Welcome to the Afrikaans Reading Comprehension for Absolute Beginners series. In this series, you will start to build up your Afrikaans reading skills through lessons focussed on everyday activities like taking the bus or train. You'll learn how to read tickets, notices in the station, timetables, and more. Improve your reading with this useful AfrikaansPod101.com series!

In this lesson, we'll show you how to read a notice at the station. Visit us at AfrikaansPod101.com, where you will find Afrikaans lesson notes and many more fantastic lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

 

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Francois Pienaar is 'n afgetrede rugbyspeler van Suid-Afrika.

Hy het gespeel as 'n flank vir die Springbokke tussen 1993 en 1996.

In daardie drie jare het hy nege-en-twintig internasionale verskynings gewen as kaptein van die span.

Hy het internasionale sterstatus bereik nadat hy die Suid-Afrikaanse span gelei het na oorwinning in die Rugby Wêreldbeker in 1995.

Die volgende jaar het die Springbokke hom laat gaan en die Londen-gebaseerde Sarahhcens het hom opgeraap.

Pienaar het rugby gespeel op 'n belangrike tyd in Suid-Afrika se geskiedenis.

In 1993 toe hy by die Springbokke aangesluit het, was die nasie in 'n staat van verwarring, aangesien apartheid uit die saal gelig is deur onderhandelings tussen destydse President F.W. de Klerk en die anti-apartheidsbeweging gelei deur Nelson Mandela.

Een van die maniere waarop Mandela die gelykskakeling van die rasse bemiddel het, was deur rugby, want hy het die sport gesien as 'n manier om Suid-Afrikaners bymekaar te bring om op te kom vir hul nasionale span.

In die tyd was Mandela en de Klerk besig om Suid-Afrika weg te beweeg van gewettigde afsondering en in die rigting van demokrasie. Chester Williams was die enigste swart speler van die Springbokke.

Pienaar het egter sy beroemdheid gebruik om te eis vir die gelykskakeling van alle rasse in Suid-Afrika.

Hy het beklemtoon dat die span die hele land verteenwoordig het en nie net die wit minderheid nie.

In 1995 het Suid-Afrika opgetree as gasheer van die Rugby Unie Wêreldbeker-toernooi en die Springbokke was verafsku in daardie stadium.

Omdat hulle negende gekeurd was, is daar nie van hulle verwag om goed te doen in die beker nie en daar is nie van hulle verwag om die amptelike wenner, Australië, ooglopend te oorweldig as kampioen nie, maar hulle het uiteindelik Australië verslaan in die eerste rondte en het toe voortgegaan om al die ander spanne te verslaan en aanspraak gemaak op die kroon.

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Francois Pienarr is a retired rugby player from South Africa.

He played as a flanker for the Springboks between 1993 and 1996.

During those three years, he won twenty-nine international caps as captain of the team.

He rose to international stardom after leading the South African team to triumph in the Rugby World Cup in 1995.

The following year, the Springboks dropped him, and the London-based Sarahhcens picked him up.

Pienaar played rugby at an important time in South Africa's history.

In 1993 when he joined the Springboks, the nation was in a state of turmoil as apartheid had been unseated through negotiations between then-President F.W. de Klerk and the anti-apartheid movement led by Nelson Mandela.

One of the ways Mandela brokered the unification of the races was through rugby, as he saw the sport as a way to bring South Africans together to champion their national team.

At the time Mandela and de Klerk were maneuvering South Africa away from legalized segregation and toward democracy, Chester Williams was the sole black player on the Springboks.

However, Pienaar used his celebrity to call for the unification of all races in South Africa.

He emphasized that the team represented the entire country and not just the white minority.

In 1995, South Africa hosted the Rugby Union World Cup, and the Springboks were detested at the time.

As they were seeded ninth, they were not expected to do well in the cup and patently weren't expected to usurp the incumbent winner, Australia, as champion, but they ended up defeating Australia in the first round and then went on to defeat all of the other teams [...]

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Ek vee die venster af.

Ek stofsuig die mat.

Ek maak die oond skoon.

Ek stof die rakke af.

Ek betaal die rekekninge .

Ek gee die plante water.

Ek doen die wasgoed.

Ek gebruik versagmiddel.

Ons gebruik die nuwe eetgerei.

Ek verander die gloeilamp.

Ek vra die kinders om te help met die huiswerk.

Ek maak middagete.

Ek koop kruideniersware.

Ek stel 'n nuwe boekrak op.

Ek herrangskik die meubels.

Ek verf die mure.

Ek maak die gebreekte stoel reg.

Ek was die familie kar.

Ek gaan by my ouers kuier.

Ek was die hele dag lui gewees.

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I wipe the window.

I vacuum the carpet.

I clean the oven.

I dust the shelves.

I pay the bills.

I water the plants.

I do laundry.

I use fabric softener.

I wash the dishes.

I change a lightbulb.

I ask the kids to finish their homework.

I make lunch.

I buy groceries.

I assemble a new bookshelf.

I rearrange the furniture.

I paint the walls.

I fix a broken chair.

I wash the family car.

I visit my parents.

I spend the day being lazy.

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Desmond Tutu is 'n burgerregte-aktivis wat Kaapstad se eerste swart aartsbiskop geword het.

Hy was ook biskop van die Anglikaanse Kerk van Suid-Afrika.

In die tyd wat hy biskop was is dit genoem die Kerk van die Provinsie van Suidelike Afrika.

Tutu het bekendheid verwerf tydens die kruistog om apartheid te verwyder.

Na afloop van die 1976 Soweto Onluste, wat protes-aksies was teen die verpligte gebruik van Afrikaans as die onderrigtaal in swart skole, het hy begin om 'n ekonomiese boikot van Suid-Afrika te ondersteun.

Hoewel die onluste oorspronklik gefokus was op die gebruik van Afrikaans in swart skole, was hulle fundamenteel 'n opstand teen apartheid.

Die sanksies wat Tutu ondersteun het is uiteengesit deur die Verenigde Nasies Algemene Vergadering as 'n manier om internasionaal te protesteer teen die rassistiese bewind van Suid-Afrika.

Hy het ook vreedsame protes-aksies teen die regering ondersteun en optogte gelei deur die strate van Kaapstad waaraan tienduisende mense deelgeneem het.

Hy het reguit gepraat oor wat hy gedink het van die regering en apartheid ondubbelsinnig vergelyk met Nazi-Duitsland. Hy het sy posisie gebruik as biskop om ooreenkomste te kry van amper al die kerke om voort te gaan met sy kruistog teen apartheid deur lesings en geskrifte.

Hy het gesoek na versoening tussen beide kante van die stryd en gewerk as 'n bemiddelaar om albei kante weg te hou van 'n volskaalse oorlog teen mekaar.

Na apartheid se ondergang het Tutu die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie gelei.

Hy het uitgetree as aartsbiskop, maar die seldsame eretitel ontvang van Emeritus Aartsbiskop.

Hy gaan voort om te veg vir burgerregte, hou veldtogte teen HIV en VIGS, rassisme, armoede, seksisme, homofobie en ander sake.

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Desmond Tutu is a civil rights activist who became Cape Town's first black archbishop.

He was also the Anglican Church of Southern Africa's bishop.

It was called the Church of the Province of Southern Africa at the time he was bishop.

Tutu rose to prominence during the crusade to extirpate apartheid.

Following the 1976 Soweto Riots, which were protests against the compulsory use of Afrikaans as the instruction language in black schools, he began to support an economic boycott of South Africa.

Although the riots were originally focused on the use of Afrikaans in black schools, they were fundamentally a revolt against apartheid.

The sanctions Tutu supported were set forth by the UN General Assembly as a way to internationally protest the racist regime of South Africa.

He also supported peaceful protest against the government and led marches through the streets of Cape Town in which tens of thousands of people participated.

He spoke candidly of his thoughts on the government, unequivocally comparing apartheid to Nazi Germany, using his position as bishop to get agreements from almost all of the churches to continue his crusade against apartheid through lectures and writings.

He sought reconciliation between both sides of the struggle and worked as a mediator to keep both sides from a full-blown war against each other.

Following apartheid's demise, Tutu led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

He retired as archbishop but received the rare honorary title of Emeritus Archbishop.

He continues to fight for civil rights, campaigning against HIV and AIDS, racism, poverty, sexism, homophobia, and other causes.

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