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Research outputs: INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES
2018 Youth theory in South Africa: an indigenous African perspective derived from Sepedi idioms and proverbs
While there is general underdevelopment of social theory within African scholarship, where the latter tends to rely heavily on borrowing fr...
2015 Community support: the missing link in indigenous language promotion in South Africa?
Literature on the challenges facing indigenous languages in South Africa often highlights the proverbial policy-practice gap among many othe...
2012 Reclaiming indigenous languages for posterity
Two pieces of legislation and one policy framework inform the language policy in South Africa: Constitution of South Africa (1996); SA Langu...
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