NRF SARChi Chair

NRF SARChi Chair

IsiXhosa lolona lwimi luthethwa kakhulu apha eMzantsi Afrika.

A three-day, International Conference of African Languages and Literature held on July 30 - August 1, 2014 at the University of Botswana under the theme Language, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century urged the media to employ indigenous languages as medium of communication.

A CHANCE meeting in a Gra­hamstown supermarket be­tween a social worker and a Rhodes University professor has in­spired research into the origins of a Stutterheim family thought to be the descendants of two freed American slaves.

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Language is one of the pivotal tools to effect transformation at a university like Rhodes

Kwinqaku lethu elidlulileyo besathule iinkcukucha ezithile malunga nokhuphiswano leelwimi ezininzi oluqhuba unyaka nonyaka apha eRhodes Univesithi.

Tomorrow is International Translation Day, and so it is an appropriate day on which to ask: Why is literacy important?

Russell Kaschula, the author of Displaced, will be a keynote speaker at The Reading Association of South Africa’s ninth annual conference this month.

Rhodes University will hold its annual Multilingual Colloquium early in the fourth term. This year, the Rhodes University Language Committee, under the School of Languages, is hosting their inaugural Multilingual Writing Competition as part of the colloquium.

The Rhodes University Language Committee is engaged in a project to raise awareness on campus about multilingualism in Higher Education in South Africa. As part of this project the annual colloquium will take place on 22 September 2014 in Eden Grove Red at 17:30. All are welcome to attend and participate.

Grahamstown is home to a number of multilingual activists, and recently hosted the isiXhosa Children's Literacy Festival, organised by Elinor Sisulu and the Puku Foundation.

Higher education in an African context is the focus of two Research Chairs that explore fundamental issues about the delivery of higher learning.

THE ninth Reading Association of South Africa (Rasa) conference, to be held on the Rhodes University campus this weekend

On 16 October every year, the world celebrates the birthday of Noah Webster, born in 1758, as International Dictionary Day.

A history lecturer teaching a class about the history of the Xhosa people in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province stops speaking English for a few minutes.