I suppose you can say so, yes. We have 11 official languages and some unofficial ones too, so almost everyone speaks English to some extend. Most as a second language, some as a first and some speak only English. The native African languages are divided by region, like Tswana is spoken mostly up...
I couldn't resist
It means "Afrikaans is my mother tongue. We speak it here in South Africa" It's one of those not-widely-known languages.What the article didn't say is that for some reason Afrikaans speakers understand Dutch and Dutch speakers don't understand Afrikaans