Faeem Karodia said the introduction of the SASL as an official language will open doors for people in the deaf community. Faeem Karodia, a sign language activist, believes making South African Sign ...

The Minister of Cultural Affairs and Sport, Anroux Marais, has welcomed the announcement of the decision by the National Assembly to adopt a bill to declare South African Sign Language (SASL) as the ...

Officialising South African Sign Language (SASL) as the 12th official language will, in principle, have no significant effect on any of the linguistic human rights listed in the Bill of Rights. The ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) South African Sign Language is now the country's 12th official language . Parliament approved a constitutional amendment in a bid to“promote the rights of persons who are ...

South African Sign Language (SASL) has been officially recognised as a home language in the country's education system. "It is a source of great elation for all in the education sector that SASL is ...

South African sign language (SASL) is the smallest recognised language in South Africa. Although some of the country’s Deaf organisations claim that more than one million South Africans use this ...

The lack of adequate training for teachers meant to cater for deaf pupils is leading to literacy issues among the deaf. While the country has 43 schools for the deaf, 38 of which use South African ...

The agreement was recently signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings in Tshwane. This followed the National Assembly approval in May that Section 6 of the Constitution be amended to ...

Despite claims that more than one million South Africans use this language, South African Sign Language (SASL) is the least-recognised language in the country. The 2011 census survey indicated that ...