UKZN graduate Akhil Hansrajh develops AI technology translating South African Sign Language into speech to help deaf people ...

Sign Your Clan` has brought South African Sign Language, African heritage and linguistic innovation together, creating a more inclusive way for more than 4-million Deaf and hard-of-hearing South ...

A UKZN engineering graduate has developed a prototype that uses computer vision and AI to convert selected South African Sign Language signs into spoken words in real time.

South Africa is known as the Rainbow Nation because it is home to people from diverse cultures, races and religions. We pride ...

Deaf students at the Khulani Special School learning sign language. Leisa Tyler/LightRocket via Getty Images Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after ...

Africa's media sign language interpreters have raised concerns over low payment, inadequate training, and the absence of interpretation services in important programs meant to cater to the deaf ...

On May 4, 2023, South Africa’s parliament voted for an amendment to the constitution that added sign language as an official language. It was a historic moment, three decades of struggle in the making ...

UKZN computer engineering graduate Akhil Hansrajh developed an AI system that translates South African Sign Language into ...

KAMPALA, Nov 30 (IPS) - Since the onset of the Covid19 pandemic, at least two deaf people were shot and killed in Uganda by state law enforcement officers. Their ‘crime’ was being deaf and uneducated.