Our Mission

We are committed to:

• Functional multilingualism: Coordinating responsive language services across academic, administrative, and social platforms.
• Digital Innovation: Developing and digitizing multilingual resources and pedagogies that reflect South Africa’s linguistic landscape
• Epistemic Justice: Fostering an institution wide culture of recognizing Afrikaans, English, Setswana and Sesotho language can be a producer of knowledge.
• Knowledge Equity: Providing professional translation, interpretation, editing and terminology development to empower our diverse community.

Leadership 

The Language directorate is position strategically within the 

• Deputy Vice Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, ensuring that the Directorate remains intertwined with the university’s core function,
• Director of the Language Directorate: Drives the strategic oversight of the language planning and decolonial pedagogies.
• Manager: Oversees the delivery of educational interpreting across all sites of delivery.
• Section Heads: Lead specialist units in Translation (Ms Onkutlwile Mere), Interpreting (Mrs. Mpho Mhonyera), and Language Education to maintain operational excellence.

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