Pendoring embraces country and industry to promote, unify and celebrate the richness of South Africa’s creative content in all its indigenous languages. Originally created in 1995 to promote and stimulate the use of Afrikaans in advertising, Pendoring has gone through a number of changes to celebrate all our indigenous languages. In 2016, they amended their rules so…
Founded by the wRite associates, in partnership with the national Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) in 2005, the main aim of the South African Literary Awards (SALA) is to pay tribute to South African writers who have distinguished themselves as ground-breaking producers and creators of literature, while it celebrates literary excellence in the depiction…
The Directors and Editors of the South Africa National Lexicography Units present the first comprehensive catalogue of dictionaries they have developed on behalf of the Government of South Africa, in partial fulfilment of Constitutional and Legislative mandates on indigenous languages. Developed in response to our Constitutional mandate that all languages must be treated equally and…
The Molteno Institute for Languages and Literacy (MILL) is an independent national literacy Non-Profit Organisation dedicated to improving literacy levels across the African continent. They promote mother tongue particularly African indigenous languages and work to improve the reading, writing, speaking as well as listening skills in disadvantaged communities. To learn more visit: https://molteno.co.za/
Saide’s African Storybook initiative, launched in 2014, responds to the shortage of local language early reading materials in sub-Saharan Africa through a digital open license publishing model. Saide is a non-governmental organisation in South Africa and the legal body managing the African Storybook initiative. It is an organisation with a mission is to enable successful…
Book Dash began in 2014 as a vision project among friends who wished to pool their collective skills in the publishing industry to flood the country with new, high-quality, affordable African picture books for all. Since then, they’ve created more than 100 books and distributed more than a million copies. They gather creative professionals who…
The vice-chairperson for ILAF, Dr Zakeera Docrat has recently been awarded the most outstanding emerging researcher award in Southern Africa at the African Languages Association of Southern Africa’s annual conference last week. The recognition was for active contribution to research around the role of African languages in the legal system, which includes her handbook…
Igalelo athe walenza kulwimi lesiXhosa yinto engenakuphikiswa, kungoku nje iRhodes University eMakhanda imwongile ngomsebenzi wakhe. UGqirhalwazi Noxolo Grootboom uthweswe isidanga esiyiHonorary Doctorate yeDoctor of Letters (D. Litt) yiYunivesithi iRhodes, eMakhanda. Esi sidanga sale yunivesithi yindlela yokumbulela ngomsebenzi omkhulu athe wawenza ukuphuhlisa ilwimi lesiXhosa kumabonakude. Isekela-ngqonyela lale yunivesithi u Gqr. Sizwe Mabizela uthe isizwe…