The British Council has signed a Declaration of Intent (DOI) to work with the South African Department of Basic Education (DBE) to improve the country’s English as a First Additional Language (EFAL) ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge ...

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 ...

Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Steve Letsike has warned that the constitutional promise of equality will remain unfulfilled if deaf South Africans are unable to access ...

IN July 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the constitutional recognition of South African Sign Language (SASL) as the 12th official language of the Republic. This was not a symbolic or ...

Africa's media sign language interpreters have raised concerns over low payment, inadequate training, and the absence of interpretation services in important programs meant to cater to the deaf ...

NEARLY two years since South African Sign Language (SASL) became the country’s 12th official language, there has been little ...