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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

This comes after the decision by the National Assembly to pass a bill to declare South African Sign Language (SASL) as the 12th official language of South Africa.

South African Sign Language and English are differently structured. This can make it hard to learn for deaf people who’ve only ever used sign language to communicate.

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 ...

Reigning Miss South Africa Mia le Roux and sign language advocate says differently abled people should stop apologising for not being what society deems “normal”. Le Roux, the first ...

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 ...