A TikTok post sparked a debate about which of the 11 official languages could be used if there had to be one. South Africans ...

When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed ...

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...

Ryanair made Dinesh Joseph take a test in Afrikaans when flying back from a vacation. The airline has said it is issuing the tests to guard against fraudulent South African passports. This is how ...

The newly crowned Miss South Africa is a speech therapist, author and an advocate for education who hopes to use her reign to ...

JOHANNESBURG/TULSA, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The words "facemask" and "hand sanitiser" are now familiar the world over, but for isiZulu speakers in South Africa those terms did not exist ...

When Andiswa Gebashe was growing up in Soweto in the 1990s, she had two dreams. "I wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be the president," she says. Today, improbably, she is both – thought not ...

For two decades, SALA has promoted inclusivity, amplified diverse voices, and upheld literature as a living expression of heritage and identity.

Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence ...