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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A TikTok video of a little boy reciting an isiZulu speech went viral. South Africans were touched by the little boy as he was ...

Meet Qhawekazi Mazaleni, the 24-year-old speech and language therapist from Gonubie in the Eastern Cape who walked away with ...

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

Human language technologies and AI must serve to expand access, safeguard diversity, and ensure that no language and no ...

A Johannesburg mall has launched on-demand sign-language interpreting via QR codes. Here’s how the service works, why it ...

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 ...