Kenyan innovator Elly Savatia wins major award for Terp 360, an AI app translating speech into sign language via 3D avatars, ...

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 agreed ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

A Johannesburg mall has launched on-demand sign-language interpreting via QR codes. Here’s how the service works, why it ...

Deputy Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Steve Letsike has warned that the constitutional promise of equality will remain unfulfilled if deaf South Africans are unable to access ...

Shopping has become easier for deaf and hard-of-hearing customers at Clearwater Mall with the launch of Convo Access, an on-demand service for sign language interpretation in partnership with Convo ...

South Africa becomes the first nation to robe court interpreters, highlighting their essential role in the justice system.

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.” Now at age 90, she is ...

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 ...

Russell H. Kaschula receives funding from the National Research Foundation and the National Department of Higher Education and Training (UCDG Grant funding) Mbali Sunrise Dhlamini does not work for, ...