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.

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 ...

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 ...

The call to action by President Ramaphosa and key stakeholders invites all sectors of society to come together, and it is imperative that SASL and the Deaf community occupy a central role in this ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...