Afrikaans literature is literature written in Afrikaans – especially since the standardization of the Afrikaans language from 14 August 1875 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Afrikaans is a daughter language of Dutch and is spoken by the majority of people in the Western Cape of South Africa. Afrikaans used to be one of two official languages of South Africa, (the other being English,) but it currently shares the status of an 'official language' with more than ten other languages.
Afrikaans is the language of the Afrikaners, many of them descendants of the Dutch. Afrikaans was encouraged by the Society of Real Afrikaners. There is an Afrikaans Language Monument which was opened on 1975 in Paarl, South Africa.
Notable people who spoke Afrikaans would include, but not be limited to, Jan Smuts, Hendrik Herzog, Louis Botha, and Dan Pienaar.