The African Literature Association (ALA) is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists. The organization welcomes the participation of all who produce the object of our study and…
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…
In a multilingual environment, language is not a cost but a valuable corporate resource. This was heard at the webinar held by the Indigenous Languages Action Forum (ILAF) in partnership with the Pendoring Awards and the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). The webinar under the topic, Language: A strategic resource, brought linguists and the business…
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…
The School of Languages and Literatures at Rhodes University is an exciting and dynamic unit within the Faculty of Humanities. They currently offer courses in the following areas of language and literary studies: African Language Studies Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies Chinese Studies Classical Studies Creative Writing Cultures and Languages in Africa French Studies German Studies…
The department of African languages at the university is committed to offering high-quality courses and programmes that will equip our students with cutting-edge knowledge and make them prominent leaders and trailblazers in their respective areas of specialisation. Their vision is to empower students with language competencies and skills that will make them dynamic language practitioners…
The Discipline of African Languages at UKZN aims to be a premier discipline of African Scholarship in language studies through excellent and innovative teaching, research and community service grounded in an ethically-based understanding of a multilingual South Africa in the global context. Their vision is to work individually, collaboratively, creatively and efficiently, as part of…
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…