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MEP staff are preparing for the USAf supported language resources audit coordinated by SADiLaR on the 31st of July 2023. UCT is one of the 26 universities participating in the audit.

On 19th July 2023, South African Sign Language (SASL) was made South Africa's 12th official language at a signing ceremony held in Pretoria.

International, African, and local universities converged at the Academy for Multilingualism at the University of the Free State to converse and discuss Language, Multilingualism, and Decolonization Practices in Higher Education.

21 February is International Mother Language Day. This day is celebrated and commemorated annually around the world for the promotion, preservation and revitalisation of the languages of all people around the world. 

The Multilingualism Education Project based in the Centre for Higher Education, handed 43 certificated to a group of excited isiXhosa and Afrikaans Communication Skills courses learners. These students completed the courses in the second semester and w

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” – Nelson Mandela. That was the message Professor Mbulungeni Madiba,

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