Branch: Language Services
 
Dr Mbulelo Jokweni
Chief Director: National Language Service
Tel: +27 (12) 441 3255
Fax: +27 (12) 441 3860
Email: Mbulelo.Jokweni@dac.gov.za
Purpose

The National Language Service (NLS) is a Chief Directorate within the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) with the broad task of meeting the constitutional obligations on multilingualism by managing language diversity through language planning, human language technologies and terminology projects, and providing a translation and editing service in the official languages and foreign languages.

Functions and Activities
• To develop, promote and protect the 11 official languages through policy formulation, legislation and
the implementation of the language policy in order to allow South Africans to realise their language
rights.
• Promotion of multilingualism.
• Language bursary scheme.
• Human Language Technologies (HTL).
• Literature development.
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