While many people think of Kaaps (or Afrikaaps) as ‘slang’ or as a variety of Afrikaans, scholars like Quentin Williams contend that Kaaps first cohered as a language during intercultural encounters in the 1500s between indigenous Africans in the Cape, traders,...
Some South African student teachers began their first and only teaching practice for the year this week in schools. As well as the novel challenges that Covid-19 has thrown their way, they are faced with the usual questions about the language practices they observe in...
For those of you who missed Dr Ramadiro’s powerful address on ‘Futures of Literacy in African Languages’ at the recent LITASA conference, here it is for you to read and share.
A group of concerned teacher educators who work in universities and NGOs write to President Cyril Ramaphosa on the “ideological positioning of our education system which privileges the voices of white academics over and above black thinkers and academics”....
