Spoken by more than 25% of South Africans, isiZulu is the country’s most widely spoken language. It is a beautiful language with clicks and tones that ingeniously capture the richness of Zulu culture.

Every September, Heritage Month in South Africa, we are encouraged to touch base with “who we are as a Rainbow Nation” through among others, our dishes, music, and speaking our home languages a lot ...

Maria Keet received funding for this research from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. We live in a world where around 7000 languages are spoken, and one where information and ...

In November 2010, YouTube announced it was adding African vernaculars Kiswahili and Amharic to its repertoire of languages. And today, it announced that it’s throwing another two African tongues into ...

With over 88k followers on TikTok, Cliffy “Zuluguy” Govender (33) has made a name for himself as an isiZulu speaking content creator. The Pietermaritzburg native was raised in Northdale and spent ...

AS International Mother Language Day was commemorated this week, the Berea Mail chatted to lecturers from the University of KwaZulu-Natal to find out more about how mother tongue speakers and second ...

You are sitting in a slightly musty-smelling lecture theatre, a physics lecturer at the front of the room, writing an equation on the blackboard. At either elbow, fellow students focus intently on the ...

YOU’RE a teacher and a student raises his hand to ask what the isiZulu word for “values” is. You reach for your trusty English-to-isiZulu dictionary to find the definition, but to your alarm, the word ...

Environmental rights law firm All Rise and some of its funders have developed a first-of-its-kind bilingual environmental impact assessment (EIA) guide in isiZulu and English to ensure that residents ...