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Mother-tongue learning gains ground as basic education expands bilingual education

As South Africa celebrates International Mother Language Day, the department of basic education says it has made steady ...
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White South African inspires by learning isiXhosa, gains community support on TikTok

A South African woman showed people that she was learning an African language as a non-native speaker The lady let people know that she was making progress learning one of the biggest languages in ...
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Here’s how much learning South African children lost in the pandemic

Servaas van der Berg receives funding from the Millennium Trust, the National Research Foundation, the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies and the MS Dell Foundation. Chris van Wyk receives funding from ...
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Last Known Speaker Fights to Preserve South African Indigenous Language

When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is ...