This may be useful to some of you out there. A spell checker for Firefox and Thunderbird for many of South Africa’s indigenous languages including Afrikaans.

http://translate.org.za/content/view/1610/54/

This open source project is a managed by translate.org.za a non-profit organization. Read more about them here: http://translate.org.za/content/view/1587/53/lang,en-za/