Tag: language

Artificial intelligence (AI) has loomed large in our world recently. With it have come dire predictions of humanity’s impending doom – or at least, the end of our careers. But does AI want to do us in? Does it really have a dark side?

More South African businesses than ever before are looking to globalise as they seek to take advantage of our country’s competitive currency, optimal time zone and low cost environment. In fact, South Africa's Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector experienced an average compound annual growth rate of around 25% between 2015 and 2021, according to a recent report published by Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA).

Focuses on the divide between Zulu and Xhosa speakers, Divided by the Word offers a refreshing new appreciation for the deep historicity of language and ethnic identity in South Africa, by reconstructing the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences.

I will open by saying, Heritage is essentially who I am. Yes, it is tradition, but it goes beyond that. As an individual, my heritage informs a lot about me. It informs what tribe I’m from and far more insightfully how I eat, what I eat, where I go, why I go there, who I associate with and why, how I speak, how I want to be spoken to, what I wear and what I don’t, how I wear it, what I care about, what I love, who I love, what I believe and don’t, and what matters to me et cetera.

In her latest book, five-time #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr Brené Brown, writes, 'If we want to find the way back to ourselves and each other, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories, and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. This is the framework for meaningful connection'.

A new study challenges the presumption that all South-Eastern-Bantu speaking groups are a single genetic entity. The South-Eastern-Bantu (SEB) language family includes isiZulu, isiXhosa, siSwati, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Sepedi, Sesotho and Setswana.