Sonja Loots is treading deep tracks in the Afrikaans literary world - she recently joined an elite list of novelists recognised for their early work. Loots, a lecturer in the Afrikaans and Netherlandic Studies section in the School of Languages and Literatures, has won this year's Eugene Marais prize from the South African Academy for Science and Art, for her book Sirkusboere. Read more...

There's good reason UCT's submission for the 2010/2011 Multilingualism Awards of the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) ran into a few hundred pages; there was a lot of ground to cover. Read more...

In a career first, Associate Professor Mark Fleishman of UCT's Drama Department has directed his first Afrikaans production. Die Vreemdeling, which ran at UCT's Magnet Theatre from January to February, is the result of Fleishman's Donald Gordon Creative Arts Award 2010. Read more...

Talk about the launch of the Clinical Skills Language CD-ROMs, and Zukile Jama glows with excitement. Jama, based in the School of Languages, has co-ordinated the project from the onset, and has seen it overcome the odds to become a potential model for bridging the communication gap, not only at UCT but also in the public and private sectors. Read more...

The Faculty of Law will present an actuality programme in Afrikaans at the 11th annual Woordfees (Wordfest) in Stellenbosch from 1 to 5 March. This will be the first law programme to be presented at this festival. The discussion programme, Reg met Afrikaans (Law in Afrikaans), is a contribution by lawyers to the recognition of Afrikaans as a language that has a vital role in discussion and debate on law subjects. Read more...