Across South Africa, there are 44 schools for the deaf, offering sign language as a subject and using it as a medium of ...

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

The contentious Basic Education Laws Amendment Act, 2024 officially came into effect in full on 20 December 2024, as gazetted on Christmas Eve. Minister Siviwe Gwarube is now on the clock to introduce ...

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.

While the president had signed the long-awaited bill into law in September already, some parties objected specifically to ...

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.

Ramaphosa signed the Act into law on 13 September, but he suspended the implementation of clauses 4 and 5 for a three-month ...