The South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), is non-profit organisation that was founded in 1966 as the South African Language Study Group. Since then its membership has increased to such an extent that the Association has become representative of a large number of people involved in language and language teaching. They serve language teachers…
South Africa has 11 official languages, but the majority of computer software is in English. This creates a language barrier for some citizens who don’t speak English and further expands the digital divide Zuza Software Foundation, a non-profit organisation, responded to this hindrance by launching an open-source translation software (www.translate.org.za). Although this does not necessarily…
Heritage Publishers was launched to tell the previously unpublished stories of all South Africans before these are lost to us. Through the Our Story series, Heritage Publishers hopes to preserve the future of our past. They hope that the Our Story series will generate new interest in the remarkable story of the people and events…
Soweto-born Siya Masuku ran a successful online crowdfunding campaign in July and August 2016 to launch his own publishing platform, Siyafunda Online. The alphabet book, Siyafunda: isiZulu (2016), has colourful images of lino-printed animals.Siya has collaborated with Book Dash South Africa to illustrate children’s books; UDaisy Omangalisayo (2015) and Isitsha Samakhekhe Masiwe (2016). With The…
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…