Maverick Life

Most ‘words of the year’ don’t actually tell us about the state of the world – here’s what I’d pick instead

By Tony Thorne

Business Maverick

After the Bell: The new language of bribery

By Tim Cohen

South Africa

Much-needed change in deaf education must be ‘led by the deaf’

By Rebecca Pitt

Magazine

Why people hate or love the sound of certain words

By Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater

Magazine

Ukrainian and Russian – how similar are the two languages?

By Neil Bermel

Magazine

Got Zoom fatigue? Out-of-sync brainwaves could be another reason videoconferencing is such a drag

By Julie Boland

Magazine

How I reconstructed an unwritten ancient African language

By H. Ekkehard Wolff

South Africa

An exhilarating linguistic minefield: Be duidelik and dala what you must

By Marianne Thamm

Maverick Life

Scrabbling to the top

By Rebecca Davis

South Africa

Literacy: You just can’t fake it

By Nic Spaull

South Africa

Jeremy Vearey – activist, teacher, gang-buster, top cop with the heart of a poet

By Marianne Thamm

South Africa

Young MPs change the narrative

By Suné Payne, Aphiwe Ngalo and Hlumela Dyantyi