A prominent university in South Africa will make learning the Zulu language compulsory for all incoming students starting next year, the first time the country’s higher education sector has ever made ...

One of the most fascinating aspects of traveling to different countries is encountering the various native tongues. Africa is one of the most diverse continents, and a plethora of dialects and ...

The Chicago students in Sam Dyson’s language class at Walter Payton College Prep High School were jittery. They were about to deliver greetings in Zulu to South African students half a world away by ...

When a middle-aged South African engineer recently set out to write a novel in his native Zulu, he found himself hamstrung by a lack of words to describe modern life. When a middle-aged South African ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s most widely circulated weekly will become the first national paper to be printed in Zulu, the language of the country’s biggest ethnic group, the ...

Five newspapers line a vendor's makeshift table built from cardboard and sticks but most customers go straight for Isolezwe, one of South Africa's growing Zulu-language dailies. "I guess people feel ...

Stephanie Rudwick receives funding from the DFG (German Research Foundation). This research was funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation), but the views contained in this article are solely the ...

Some 80% of people in KwaZulu-Natal speak Zulu A leading South African university says it will make Zulu language classes compulsory for all first-year students from next year. The decision by the ...