JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) South African Sign Language is now the country's 12th official language . Parliament approved a constitutional amendment in a bid to“promote the rights of persons who ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently ...

South Africa is set to announce its 12th official language. This after a hybrid plenary session held by the National Assembly earlier this week, approving South African Sign Language (SASL).

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law the South African Sign Language Bill during a ceremony at the Union Buildings. The country now has 12 official languages. The Presidency said recognising ...

India's former President Pranab Mukherjee speaks at the podium as a fake sign language interpreter (right) punches the air beside him during a memorial service for late South African President ...

NEARLY two years since South African Sign Language (SASL) became the country’s 12th official language, there has been little ...

The amendment is to include South African Sign Language (SASL) as an official language to promote the rights of persons who are deaf and hard of hearing. Until now, the South African Constitution ...

Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community. The board can’t give languages official status, so nothing came of the ...