In this blog, Science educator, Nosimo Ndzotyana, writes about her experience with the bua-lit materials ‘iSayensi Yethu’. Natural Sciences and Technology aims at equipping and preparing the learners for the changing world. Without any doubt we cannot resist the...
On the 11 July 2023, the Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at UWC, in collaboration with bua-lit, held a bilingual learning materials workshop to discuss introducing these new learning materials in schools. They have already identified two...
South African media has been saturated with opinion pieces about the ‘literacy crisis’ in our schools. This comes in the wake of the release of the PIRLS 2021 results where South Africa once again fared poorly. bua-lit has inserted our voice into the...
On 29 October, Dr Xolisa Guzula was interviewed by Prof Carolyn McKinney at a workshop for high school teachers in South Africa. She explains the difference between translation and versioning and her process of creating an isiXhosa version of ‘George’s...
Read Gugulethu’s thoughts on Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us and why these books are important to her – First surgeon to perform a human-to-human heart transplant surgery: Dr Chris Barnard. First man on the moon: Neil Armstrong. Ngingumfundi oqavile esikoleni...
In March this year, Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga announced the government’s plan to introduce Mother Tongue Based Bilingual Education for all South African children. We welcome this direction by the DBE and wrote a piece in The Conversation outlining...
