Afrikaans speakers are embracing the word “gemoedsbekakking”, a colloquial term describing deep hopelessness and mental strain amid South Africa’s daily pressures. Afrikaans speakers are embracing ...

Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof has been crowned the top Afrikaans school in South Africa with 3.62 distinctions per candidate in the 2025 matric exams. Hoër Meisieskool Bloemhof is a government high school ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

You may already have experienced an inxumano yomuntu nomshini – a human-machine interaction – without even realising it. Thanks to a new AI glossary by Google, in partnership with the Pan South ...

Google – in partnership with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) – has launched a new AI Glossary for isiZulu, isiXhosa, and Afrikaans giving millions of South Africans the language tools ...

The AI glossary launch took place at Google’s South Africa offices in Johannesburg. Google, in partnership with the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), has launched an artificial intelligence ...

At 92, Katrina Esau fights to preserve N|uu, South Africa’s ancient San language, endangered with her as its last first-language speaker. She started a school, wrote a book, and helped create a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For some readers, a dictionary opens up a world. This is my tribe: all of us dinosaurs from the genus ...

Not long after my arrival, though, everything changed. Pageviews were declining for Merriam-Webster.com, the company’s free, ad-driven revenue engine: Tweaks to Google’s algorithms had punished ...