Submissions were received in 2015 from Deaf South Africa, among others, saying while sign language was well recognised in the Constitution and given a special status, it was not sufficient to ...

World Atlas, an online site that studies demographics, says only 41 countries recognise sign language as an official language, just four of them in Africa - Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.

And yes, while there's still a long way to travel to ensure all out inclusivity for South Africa's deaf community, the signing of the South African Sign Language Bill into law was a key step taken.

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently ...

In apartheid South Africa, most white deaf children attended schools where they were told to sit on their hands, and punished if they were caught using sign language with their peers.

A growing literature deals with various aspects of South African Sign Language (SASL), including works on the history, lexicography, sociolinguistics, and educational uses and implications of SASL ...

The South African deaf community is not too thrilled with Limpopo popstar Makhadzi, after she was seen mocking SA Sign Language in a recent video. Members of the deaf community have expressed ...

On July 19, president Cyril Ramaphosa officially signed into law SA Sign Language during a ceremony at the Union Buildings in Pretoria with activists and organisations working to promote the deaf ...

When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".

South Africa's deputy disability minister says the government is investigating how a man who faked sign language at the Mandela memorial was given security clearance. Thamsanqa Jantjie, who stood ...

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 breakthrough that will help him ...