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Translanguaging in the International Year of Indigenous Languages
Language intellectualisation is a complex process that is influenced by many non-linguistic factors, such as the lack of systematic approaches, the prevailing gap between policy and practice, continuing marginalisation, and the need for innovative approaches and strategies. Read more
Young go-getter to watch
Well done to Unisa Communications Science lecturer Dr Rofhiwa Mukhudwana for being selected as one of the Mail & Guardian 200 young South Africans for 2018. Read more
Africa Speaks interrogates decolonising higher education
Speaking at Unisa, UCT’s Dr Shose Kessi said that, in time, practices currently seen as resistant and radical would become entrenched and normalised, thus giving rise to a new institutional culture. Read more
Afrikaans translation of iconic African novel
Thomas Mofolo’s classic literary work on the legend of the Zulu King, Chaka, has been translated by Prof Chris Swanepoel, a research fellow in the Department of African Languages. Read more
