In South Africa, for example, there are 11 official spoken languages and scientists use Latin names for species. Most people aren't familiar with the scientific names.

What’s South Africa’s new school language law and why is it controversial? Afrikaans-speaking groups say sections of BELA threaten to ‘erode’ their mother tongue.

President Donald Trump was basking in the praise of a group of African leaders on Wednesday, many of them speaking a ...

Five different languages are used in the National Anthem of South Africa, three of which are sung in Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and two in Die Stem van Suid-Afrika.

The research found that multilingual strivings are not common among South African Indian pupils, instead, it found that different varieties of English serve as different languages within the ...

Having a recognised official language goes beyond recognition, for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community it is a right long denied.

Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy is awarded the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy, for its programme ‘School Readiness through Community Participation’. The Molteno Institute for Language ...

That’s why we extended the list of scientific, Afrikaans and English names of South African frogs and reptiles to include names in the country’s other nine official languages.