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South Africa marks 50 years since 1976 by honouring the students who fought for educaional justice and equality. MEP reaffirms its commitment to African indigenous languages and a multilingual learning future.

MEP led a vibrant Q1 of 2026 with International Mother Language Day events, a PanSALB spelling bee, an international workshop, and a human rights dialogue, concluding with the IsiXhosa Literary Competition awards.

The University of Cape Town (UCT) and Rhodes University (RU) met to explore pathways for collaboration on the language development plans for the respective universities.

The indaba is now an annual platform to track UCT’s progress. In 2024, it introduced the policy. In 2025, it showcased best practice. In 2026, it will focus on lessons learned from the first years of implementation.

MEP successfully hosted the University of Venda and Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University on behalf of UCT as they visited on a multilingualism benchmarking activity.

UCT Celebrated its inaugural International Mother Language Day Celebration as part of its Language Development Plan and to officially launch the newly approved UCT Language Policy

The Multilingualism Education Project (MEP) hosted the first ever UCT Language Indaba on behalf of the university on the 12th of September 2024.

This serves to appraise the university community about language matters at UCT including the UCT Language Development Plan. The 2024 activities are detailed in this update.