World maps are showing country sizes to be geographically inaccurate depending on their placement near the Poles.

Thanks to the continued support of the Government of Flanders (Belgium), the World Heritage Online Map Platform is being expanded to include World Heritage properties in Africa, thereby extending the ...

One of the critical conversations that needs to take place is whether Afrikaans should continue to hold a place in our school curricula. As a language that has deep historical ties to colonialism ...

Ismail Lagardien is a writer, columnist and political economist with extensive exposure and experience in global political economic affairs. He was educated at the London School of Economics, and ...

The Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act makes provision, among other things, for the government to control what languages are taught in schools. South Africa has 11 official languages and ...

As seen on the map, it's also a language ... are the largest ethnic group in western Africa, and this is their native tongue.

Christian Elongue, Managing Director of Ghana-based consulting firm and language service provider (LSP) Kabod Group, joins ...

The Department of Basic Education must ensure that it rolls out the new policy in a carefully scaffolded way right up to ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean in the east, the South ...

GENDER activist and author Rita Mae Brown once exquisitely said: “Language is the road map of a culture ... by the School Governing Body (SGB). Afrikaans schools in particular have been the ...

Africa’s enduring challenges and vast opportunities continues to focus the minds of governments, civil society, and private corporations alike. Drawing on the continent’s complicated history ...

Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and Dutch colonisers, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, each group ...