AI and sign language: 2025 timeline set for language policy changes in schools

After years of teaching African languages as subjects, the focus now shifts to using them as vehicles for teaching, learning, and assessment.

Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga confirmed the empty teaching posts at schools across the country recently. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/The Citizen

This means that learners from Grade 4 through to matric will gradually be given the option to learn content in their mother tongue. Furthermore, Motshekga explained that the new batch of pupils in 2025, from grade 4 will go through their entire primary schooling education in their home languages. Motshekga said that sign language and Indigenous non-official languages would gradually be developed to realise multilingualism.

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