Bursaries for Language Practice Studies
Call for applications from South African Universities for a Bursary in Language Studies for 2021/22 – 2023/24 Financial Years
The Use of Official Languages Act, 2012 (Act No. 12 of 2012), among other things, aims at promoting the equitable use of the 11 South African official languages, in facilitating access to government services, knowledge and information and ensuring redress for the previously marginalised official languages.
This Act implies increased demand on language services and properly qualified language practitioners are needed to meet this demand. The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, therefore, is offering bursaries for students to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate studies in any three (3) of the following areas of study:
Any of the 11 South African official languages with emphasis on nine previously disadvantaged indigenous languages
Human Language Technology
Interpreting
Language Planning
Lexicography
South African Sign Language
Terminology Development and Management
Translation and Editing
For more info visit: https://www.dac.gov.za/bursaries/
