Latest newsCrop production in South Africa is overshadowed by storm clouds, and not the type that farmers crave. A multitude of uncertainties combine to darken prospects for the country’s crop farmers, which include climate change, water shortages, soil degradation, disease, economic instability and infrastructure and energy restrictions. 9 Dec 2024 Read more The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is intensifying its efforts to support the higher education sector in advancing the implementation of the Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions. Following the successful completion of the national language resources audit in 2023, SADiLaR has introduced a comprehensive higher education support programme aimed at building capacity, enhancing project execution, and fostering resource and infrastructure development across South African universities. 3 Dec 2024 Read more The SADiLaR-Wikipedia-PanSALB (SWiP) project is a collaborative initiative by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), Wikimedia South Africa (Wikimedia ZA) and the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). It aims to strengthen the presence of official South African languages by building language communities equipped to create, edit and manage content on Wikipedia. Through a series of practical workshops across the country, SWiP has successfully trained participants throughout universities across South Africa in digital authorship skills, boosting the digital footprint of official South African languages and content online. 3 Dec 2024 Read more You are cordially invited to attend a ceremony on Thursday 28 November 2024 at which renowned economist Prof Raymond Parsons will be bestowed an honorary doctorate by the North-West University (NWU). 28 Nov 2024 Read more Prof. Waldo Krugell and Prof. Raymond Parsons from the North-West University (NWU) dive into the global implications of former United States of America president Donald Trump’s re-election, specifically the impact he will have on South Africa. 12 Nov 2024 Read more It has happened. The world is 1.5 °C warmer than it was in preindustrial times. A threshold has been breached, and the times they are a-changin’. 8 Nov 2024 Read more The NWU Gallery in collaboration with the Faculty of Education presents a selection of artworks from the Visual Art for Education students from 2024. In their projects, students invent, reinvent and connect to concepts and ideas behind contemporary art practices, as well as to areas of inquiry in the world, with the world, and with each other (Freire 1970: 69). The threads weaving together the various installations allude to this interconnectedness of individuals and communities. In this exhibition, we emphasise the importance of collaboration and shared narratives, celebrating the ways in which our artistic expressions connect us to each other and to our histories, our lived experiences and our future. Mabogo dinku a a thebana. 22 Oct 2024 Read more The pursuit of greatness without boundaries by the North-West University (NWU) has just had an innovative technological boost with the launch of its virtual reality (VR) simulation laboratory at the Faculty of Health Sciences on 23 August. 3 Sep 2024 Read more The principal and vice-chancellor of the North-West University (NWU), Prof Bismark Tyobeka, has a message of congratulations for both the South African Olympic team and especially for NWU students Jo-Ané van Dyk and Bradley Nkoana, who both bagged silver medals in Paris. 15 Aug 2024 Read more The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) had a significant presence during South Africa’s winter conference season. Its digital humanities researchers and operational teams presented their research and organised digital humanities workshops at various conferences and events held across South Africa from April to July 2024. 5 Aug 2024 Read more IsiNdebele has enjoyed a major boost on Wikipedia, thanks to the successful completion of the first phase of the SWiP Project, a collaborative initiative by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), the free encyclopaedia (Wikipedia), and the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). The SWiP Project, launched in September last year, aims to increase the digital footprint of South Africa’s indigenous languages by creating and training a community of indigenous language users that submit and translate content on the free, online encyclopaedia platform. 1 Aug 2024 Read more Learning a new language can be fun but also challenging as you try to navigate your way through a wondrous world of novel sounds and words. Life has just become a little easier for isiXhosa learners with isiXhosa.click, a new online dictionary for isiXhosa and English 29 Jul 2024 Read more Menno van Zaanen, professor of digital humanities at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) recently spent a productive two weeks at the University of Gdańsk in Poland to conduct teaching activities and interdisciplinary research in digital humanities. Dr Karolina Rudnicka invited him from the Faculty of Languages as part of the university's 4th edition of the 'Visiting Professors UG' programme, which is aimed at increasing the internationalisation of education by exposing students and researchers to excellent researchers from around the world. 15 Jul 2024 Read more A study published by the Child Language Development node of the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is the first of its kind to measure children’s utterances in isiXhosa, Sesotho, Setswana and Xitsonga. 20 Jun 2024 Read more The director of the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), Prof Langa Khumalo, has been elected as fellow of the Zimbabwe Academy of Sciences (ZAS). 19 Jun 2024 Read more Stakeholder engagement is a crucial part of the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR)'s strategic mission. With the adoption of a new five-year strategy plan, the infrastructure is dedicated to promoting its mandate and establishing a local and global presence to attract potential partners in the domains of natural language processing and digital humanities. This commitment was reinforced by the infrastructure's acceptance as a full member of Clarin, a distributed European digital infrastructure consortium, as of 1 January 2024. 13 Jun 2024 Read more A former high school teacher's quest to improve the poor reading ability of learners in low-resource languages has resulted in a groundbreaking PhD centered on the development of a means to measure text readability while developing digital language resources for Sesotho. This research is the first of its kind and will also serve as a model for other Bantu languages. 4 Jun 2024 Read more Prof Bismark Tyobeka, principal and vice-chancellor of the North-West University (NWU) has been awarded the prestigious National Order of Merit, also known as the l’Ordre National du Mérite, on behalf of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. 27 May 2024 Read more Moses Radebe, a two-time world Morganti Ju-Jitsu and a five-time national Ju-Jitsu champion, graduated with a PhD in radiation science at the North-West University (NWU) on 20 May 2024. 23 May 2024 Read more
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