Possible Clues:

• African wasn't a criminal
• One of South Africa's official languages
• Car for graceful bird - take note, it's the talk of South Africa
• South African tongue
• Volunteers holding pen for an African
• Tribesman wants wild area
• Volunteers seize pen, writing in African language
• A language of South Africa
• Talk in Africa of terriers consuming large bird
• Language that some West Africans naturally acquire at the outset?