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From Umlazi to Washington DC: Dr. Sipho Sithole’s journey of teaching isiZulu abroad

At Howard University, Dr. Sipho Sithole is reshaping global perspectives on Zulu culture — one classroom, conversation, and cultural exchange at a tim

Stellenbosch University’s future success requires white people within its wider community to articulate anti-racism as a genuine political position. (Photo by Gallo Images/ER Lombard)

Stellenbosch must tackle overprivileged indifference to become more inclusive

Stellenbosch University’s future success requires white people within its wider community to articulate anti-racism as a genuine political position.

Chasing Shadows: Shebeen. (Copyright Santu Mofokeng Foundation, courtesy Lunetta Bartz MAKER )

Sixosh’ abathakathi: Ukuthwebula and the photographic image

Reimagining image making through concepts found in isiZulu

Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs during the opening ceremony of the 123rd IOC session on July 5, 2011 in Durban.  (Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

How Joseph Shabalala’s Mambazo chopped the competition down

The founder of the group’s openness to collaboration took Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s isicathamiya music around the globe

Cultural ambassador: Ndabo Zulu has been working with both South African and Norwegian musicians, which has helped him to navigate different traditions. (Siphiwe Mhlambi)

Ndabo Zulu hails the queen

While trumpeter Ndabo Zulu was studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music (from 2017 to 2019) and building on the idea that would become his opus, Queen Nandi The African…

(John McCann/M&G)

Africans deserve to hear their stories

As African literature becomes more accessible, it must be canonised like Tolstoy and Shakespeare’s

Musical confessions: Zoë Modiga has had a busy year touring and working in Germany and the US. But now she’s back home and putting together another album. (Tatenda Chidora)
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Zoë Modiga: Many colours after Yellow

Zoë Modiga has not been home for a while because she’s “getting money three ways”. At first she was occupied with the duties of being a member of Afro jazz band, Seba Kaapstad. A…

South African-ness is a concept beyond merely nationality or citizenship. It is a set of ideas, traditions, values and behaviours. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

The torment of being a ‘questionable’ South African

25 years into our democracy, South Africans are using similar tests on Africans.

Software tools can take multiple languages to entirely new spaces. Zubada/Shutterstock

Connecting isiXhosa, isiZulu to the digital age

Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.

Expand: English is used in other languages

At a loss for words in vernacular

This was the central message of Ngugi’s message — of alienation and injustice because of the use of language.

Students who enrol next year for the Bachelor of Education degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal will be taught the bulk of their courses in isiZulu

Aspiring teachers will have to ukufunda ulimi lweSintu

You’ll be able to read this whole headline by the time you’ve trained to be a teacher at South Africa’s universities.

The University of KwaZulu-Natal is considering undergraduate courses in isiZulu. (Gallo Images)

Physics needn’t be Greek to isiZulu

The University of KwaZulu-Natal wants to introduce undergraduate courses in isiZulu but students are concerned technical words don’t translate well.

The Gupta saga comes to Parliament; isiZulu for all school children; and shock

Weekend 101: Guptagate heats up Parliament

The Gupta saga comes to Parliament; isiZulu for all school children; and shock, horror from the BBC over poor whites in SA.

Court rules on ‘kitchen’ isiZulu case

Durban High School did discriminate against its isiZulu-speaking pupils by offering Afrikaans at a higher grade than isiZulu in 2007.