If South African Sign Language is recognised as one of the country’s official languages, it will considerably ease many of the deaf community’s problems of access, education and equality.

People have been campaigning for more than a decade to get sign language officially recognised South Africa could soon give sign language official status, one of a few countries in Africa to do so.

including three for South Africa. The platform now includes 11 of the country’s 12 official languages, with only sign ...