Russell H. Kaschula receives funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF). Zakeera Docrat receives funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF). Karien Brits does not work for, consult, ...

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 ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

JOHANNESBURG (dpa) – South Africa’s Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel had no problem switching to the clicking language of Xhosa during the recent budget debate and interspersing his speech with some ...

Between April 20 to May 22, 2020, Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa in conjunction with Rising Voices hosted a Twitter conversation as part of the project, “The identity matrix: Platform regulation of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...