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Want to learn a South African language? Your options are limited – here’s why

It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...
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SADiLaR digitises 5 decades of South African language teaching scholarship

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is proud to support the preservation and long-term accessibility of South Africa’s language teaching scholarship through the ...
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Sign language is set to become South Africa’s 12th official language after a long fight for recognition

Deaf students at the Khulani Special School learning sign language. Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after ...
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"Absolutely correct": Woman begs white South Africans to learn Bantu languages, SA agrees

Cape Town woman advocates for white South Africans to learn isiXhosa, isiZulu or isiNdebele, sparking national dialogue on language integration and unity.
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Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...
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UJ introduces African languages to its chatbot

UJ introduces African languages to its chatbot By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 13 Aug 2026The University of Johannesburg introduces African languages to its chatbot, MoUJi. The University of ...