Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in ...

What were the new living conditions like? What type of work was allocated to the deportees? Do you think the authorities had given much thought to who should do what work? What could have motivated ...

The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...

As we celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February, we are reminded that South Africa’s linguistic diversity is one of our greatest cultural assets. Yet for decades, African languages ...

“Sorry, I didn’t catch that” – a familiar frustration for millions of Africans using voice technology like Siri and Alexa, where common phrases and names like ...