On 7 May 2025, Indigenous Languages Action Forum hosted a well-attended webinar on Language and Education with Dr Connie Makgabo from the University of Pretoria. In conversation with Dr Makgabo was Siki Dlanga, ILAF Communications and Coordinator together with Abram Mashatole, who is a multilingual degree lecturer at the University of Limpopo. Mr Mashatole was…
On 7 May 2025, Indigenous Languages Action Forum hosted a well-attended webinar on Language and Education with Dr Connie Makgabo from the University of Pretoria. In conversation with Dr Makgabo was Siki Dlanga, ILAF Communications and Coordinator together with Abram Mashatole, who is a multilingual degree lecturer at the University of Limpopo. Mr Mashatole was…
REGISTER NOW! https://form.jotform.com/243401202279548 17th BIENNIAL CONFERENCE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FORENSIC & LEGAL LINGUISTICS TITLE: Transformative Justice through a forensic and legal linguistic lens DATES 30 June – 04 July 2025 VENUE: President Hotel, 4 Alexander Road, Bantry Bay, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA PROGRAMME : 1ST DRAFT 15 May IAFLL Programme ZD REGISTER HERE A…
In a decade, the world will speak half of the current languages. Most languages will be extinct. Already, more indigenous language speakers are using English to communicate to their children than their mother tongue. More families are speaking English than any other time in our country. This has been identified as our key strategy to…
“When we think of heritage, the first thoughts that spring to mind are culture, family, ancestry and language. We should consider language, culture and heritage as unitary. The ‘common language’ is not at all as common as its reputation might have it—and it empowers above all the generally fluent economic elite. We are counting the costs…
For the first time ever, the international forensic and legal linguistics conference will be hosted in South Africa, Cape Town at the University of the Western Cape. Dr Zakeera Docrat who is the Indigenous Languages Action Forum Chairperson is also the Conference Chairperson for the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Forensic and…
Coauthored by Dr Zakeera Docrat (Chair of ILAF) & Dr Conrad Steenkamp (CEO of Afrikaans Taalraad) When we think of heritage, the first thoughts that spring to mind are culture, family, ancestry and language. We should consider language, culture and heritage as unitary. We celebrate our mother tongues on 21 February (UNESCO) as part…
Koketso Sachane of SAfm The Meeting Point in conversation with ILAF Chair, Dr Zakeera Docrat. Dr Docrat described Ilaf as a bottom up network of educators, artists and activists for the promotion of indigenous languages alongside English in the country. Docrat said language is central to the legal system of South Africa. Language is fundamental…
Upapasho ndaba SiliQumrhu leeLwimi zoMgquba, siyakwamnkela ukubekwa kukaJaji Mandisa Maya, njengenina lokuqala ukuba yintloko yeeJaji eMzantsi Afrika. Iintliziyo zethu sileliQumrhu zithe gcobho emafutheni luvuyo, kuba oku kubekwa kukaMandisa Maya kuza kuvulela amathuba amaninzi okuphuhlisa nokusebenzisa iilwimi zomgquba. UJaji Maya ngomnye weenjinga ekukhuthazeni ukusetyenziswa kweelwimi zesiNtu kwiinkundla zeli. Inkxaso yakhe nenkuthazo koogxa bakhe ekubeni basebenzise…
FOR IMMEDIATE Release Indigenous Languages Action Forum (ILAF) welcomes the appointment of Justice Mandisa Maya, as South Africa’s first woman Chief Justice. As the ILAF community, we are elated to exist in an era where our Chief Justice has openly promoted and used the indigenous languages in the legal system. Justice Maya’s calls for…