September is Deaf Awareness month. Here are some tips on making your organisation more inclusive for Deaf people and people with hearing loss.
Deaf Gain: What the Deaf community brings to society
When people think of the Deaf community, the conversation often begins with what is ‘missing’ – hearing, spoken words, sound. But this way of seeing is incomplete, and it limits everyone. The truth is that Deaf people do not live with less. Instead, they live with ‘different’, and what they bring to society is profound.
Celebrating women in Women’s month: Faika’s trip to Tarragona in Spain
Faika at the BIP Faika Haroun, an Academic and Professional Literacies lecturer at the Language Centre, had the privilege of visiting the Roviira i Virgili University (URV) from 9 to…
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Language Day 2025
About Language Day Language Day is hosted every two years at Stellenbosch University (SU). It is an opportunity for SU staff and students to learn from each other and to…
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The days of the week in isiXhosa
Why do we say ‘Monday’ for Monday? Where do the names for the days of the week come from in isiXhosa, English and Afrikaans? uMvulo (The day opening the week)…
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Meet our English teachers!
Meet our English portfolio! Our teachers are all experts in teaching English as a second language and thrive in seeing their students reach new limits. The English portfolio aims to…
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Africa Day 2023: Our Africa, our future
The practice of interpreting from one language to another on the African continent, as elsewhere, goes back thousands of years. In many African societies, the professional linguists or praise singers belonged to a long line of gifted multilingual orators …
So many kinds of freedom
“I never even knew that such a kind of personal freedom existed, because I had never experienced it before.” In celebration of Freedom Day on 27 April, a Belgian exchange students shares her thoughts on freedom with us, originally in Afrikaans, but translated into English below.
Mother language, heart language
Mother Language Day: A day dedicated to the language in which our very first thoughts were verbalised – that’s a world we can believe in. We’re so different, but this…
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