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The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language

The 100-year-old story of South Africa’s first history book in the isiZulu language: Detail from the cover of the book Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual. UKZN Press This year marks the centenary of the publication in 1922 of Abantu Abamnyama Lapa Bavela Ngakona (The Black People and Whence They Came), the first …

How we’re making the tools to connect isiXhosa and isiZulu to the digital age

How we’re making the tools to connect isiXhosa and isiZulu to the digital age: Software tools can take multiple languages to entirely new spaces. Zubada/Shutterstock We live in a world where around 7000 languages are spoken, and one where information and communication technologies are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. This puts increasing demands on more, and more …