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Beware of the second wave of the invasion of Africa

Beware of the second wave of the invasion of Africa

DR MATHEWS PHOSA IT is a privilege to be back in Maputo, a city which I regard as my second home. During the struggle for liberation, I spent many happy months here-amongst others as a lecturer, teaching students the creative language of Afrikaans. I am told it was put to good use in the cross-border interaction with South Africa on both an official and unofficial level. Both South Africa and Mozambique come from a scarred history of colonialization. Mozambique from the Portuguese and South Africa mostly from the British, but also from the Dutch and others. I mention this because…
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9 new African languages added to Google translate offline support

9 new African languages added to Google translate offline support

BIRD STORY AGENCY GOOGLE recently announced the expansion of its offline translation by adding 33 new languages, including nine African languages, to the Google Translate app on iOS and Android. This now brings the total number of African languages supported by Google to 12. Arabic, Swahili and Afrikaans have been supported by the Google Translate offline translation tool since 2018 when Google launched the functionality. Nigerian languages Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba and southern African languages, Sesotho, Xhosa, Zulu and Shona, are part of the newly added languages. Additionally, Kinyarwanda, spoken in Rwanda and other parts of East Africa and Chichewa,…
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