From Weltevrede/Siyabuswa, it is again not far to the third place we shall visit – Moloto, right on the border of the Mpumalanga and Gauteng Provinces, and in fact quite close to Pretoria, South ...

Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and ...

Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South Atlantic Ocean in the south-west and the North Atlantic Ocean in the north-west.

Lesotho is the largest sovereign enclave in the world, sharing a 687-mile border with just one other country, South Africa.

A new education law in South Africa is dividing lawmakers and sparking angry emotions in a country with a complex racial and ...

When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language”. Now at age ...

In May 2016, our group of researchers and students headed to South Africa, and learned how to carry out linguistic fieldwork, conducting their own small research projects in teams, guided by ...

English is the preferred language of instruction for many in South Africa. Afrikaans language policy has historically been used to exclude black learners in a country where racism remains deeply ...

A recent change to South Africa’s national health research guidelines contains newly added language that appears to permit the use of genome editing to create genetically modified children.

“When I see the face of our children, full of hope and energy and bound by the borders of yesterday, I dream of an Africa where those borders and colonial languages no longer divide us. My ...

ABUJA – Professor Alex Igbiniweka, an evolutionist and creator of the Guosa language, has assured that this indigenous lingua franca will break barriers and unite West Africa. He made this ...