Dr Diane Bell is affiliated with the Carel du Toit Trust, a Not-for-Profit Organisation that supports children who are deaf. According to the World Health Organisation report on hearing, mild hearing ...

Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Steve Letsike has warned that the constitutional promise of equality will remain unfulfilled if deaf South Africans are unable to access ...

In a first for South African higher education, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has launched a pilot project to make its National Benchmark Test (NBT) website accessible in South African Sign ...

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 ...

IN July 2023, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the constitutional recognition of South African Sign Language (SASL) as the 12th official language of the Republic. This was not a symbolic or ...

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For International Day of Sign Languages on September 23, 2025, Kaizen Aid collaborated with the West African Civil Society Institute and Wilde Ganzen to mark the day at the Cape Coast School for the ...

When Andiswa Gebashe was growing up in Soweto in the 1990s, she had two dreams. "I wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be the president," she says. Today, improbably, she is both – thought not ...

After complaints, Pretoria High is under pressure to look at its policies for black students, who say they should be able to wear natural hair and speak their native languages. There's a protest ...