Languages

Governments use digital platforms to communicate with society but, on a continent with more than 2 000 languages, it remains stubbornly monolinguistic

The Schools Act considers South African sign language as an official language for the purposes of learning in a public school

Because of the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of innovation, human foolishness and pettiness are often thwarted in favor and pursuit of the bigger picture which, in…

Analysis of news coverage in May shows a governing party that is broke — and bitterly at war with itself

George Euvrard spoke to Athandiwe Saba about his passion for education, clues on how to solve his crosswords and the importance of celebrating South Africa.

Advocates of retaining Afrikaans as a language of instruction are blind to their own prejudices

But librarians face difficulties in a society where the culture of reading is not widespread

Whether in comic books, novels or academic work, African languages are increasingly becoming the norm

Technology is not necessarily the panacea it’s said to be, de-skilling further the under-skilled

Educating our children in their mother tongues will help to address underdevelopment in Africa

Although English may not be the de facto talk of the town in South Africa, in written form it continues to dwarf others

Almost all teaching in Mozambique is in Portuguese but the majority of Mozambicans speak one of more than 40 local languages

The combination of knowledge and communication leads to social, cultural and technological development

"The quality of ‘input’ or the language exposure students receive is a big factor in the learning of new languages"

Digital and print have distinct advantages – and even the online version is compiled by a publisher.