A degree with a difference: using South African sign language instead of the written word

By Ruth Zilla Morgan and Andrew van der Spuy. Nyeleti Nokwazi Nkwinika was a year into her Master’s dissertation in English, and she was struggling. This has nothing to do with her work ethic: the problem lay with her hearing. Nyeleti was born deaf and like many others in her situation, she battles with written language. More...