Implementing and Promoting Multilingualism: Speaking Through Different Tongues in South African Higher Education Spaces

The new South Africa inherited a history of linguistic marginalisation, and the dawn of democracy ushered in a period of redressing and reclaiming African languages to their rightful place. The country has had to live its true multilingual nature, a project that continues to evade former colonial states. True to the commitment of a linguistically equitable society, this collection of research papers, written in isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa, and Sesotho, amongst other Indigenous languages, argues for the centrality of multilingualism as means of intellectualising, utilising, and developing African languages. The book has been published in the nick of time because technology within the current South African dispensation is rapidly developing and therefore requires a new and equivalent terminology to be created in African languages. This is indeed the time when terminology in the world of work, as well as in science, requires new terms to develop a metalanguage that can effectively explain the phenomena underlying any form of science.