As South Africa’s education system undergoes pivotal reforms and rising challenges, attention is turning not only to infrastructure and resources—but to the building blocks of communication itself.

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 agreed ...

The Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ms Nomalungelo Gina, has emphasised the urgent need for South Africa to strengthen the commercialisation of university-based innovations, ...

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 ...

Claudine Storbeck has received research funding from the UK-MRC (Medical Research Council) and the Global Challenges Research Fund (UK-MRC/AHRC). She is a visiting researcher at the University of ...