Media personality and global advocate for Deaf Rights and Inclusion, Uyanda Mbuli has recently slammed actress and content creator, Farieda Metsileng better known as Pharoahfi for using sign language as a joke tactic. Pharoahfi who hosts the People Need Comedy (PNC) podcast alongside Mpho Popps, Tsitsi Chiumnya plays a role of a sign language news […]
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Amends can be made between award-winning artist Makhadzi and those who belong to the hearing-impaired community, as efforts have been made to assist the singer in gaining more knowledge about sign language. Following a recent clip in which the singer was accused of mocking members of the deaf community, the Neema Foundation for the Deaf […]
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Award-winning musician Makhadzi has recently rubbed members of the deaf community off the wrong way, this comes after a recent video she posted on social media which received tons of backlash from some internet users. The video posted shows the singer along with a fellow dancer preparing for a shoot of one of her music […]
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Sign language is mainly a visual language that makes use of hand gestures, facial expressions and body language to communicate. It has been found to have a huge positive impact in the acquisition of spoken language for children with hearing loss as it provides them with a visual mode of communication that can assist them […]
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Sign language has officially been added as South Africa’s 12th official language. A statement from the South African Government news agency, reads: “The National Assembly approved the Report of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Constitutional Development on the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill [B1 – 2023] to amend section 6 of the Constitution of the […]
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