Hello Mzansi, we made it! 🇿🇦
For the first time in history, South Africans can code in their own language.
Introducing CMT-SALanguages — Python in all 11 official SA languages.
isiZulu · isiXhosa · Afrikaans · Sesotho · Setswana · Sepedi · siSwati · isiNdebele ·
Tshivenda · Xitsonga
Read all functions, keywords etc here:👇🏽
https://t.co/fdzmQRxQta
#YouthDay #June16
Growing up in South Africa, coding always felt like it belonged to someone else's language.
So I built my own.
Introducing CMT-IsiZulu — write Python code in isiZulu South African can now write codes in their home language
🇿🇦 Sikhona. We exist.
https://t.co/yPjDg6rN08
In many ways the thesis helps explain why Ndlozi often struggles to engage contemporary socioeconomic issues with analytical depth. The same tendency is visible throughout his PhD work. Personal narrative frequently displaces rigorous engagement with competing evidence, alternative explanations and material realities.
That is why we should be cautious about elevating academic credentials above scrutiny. A PhD is not proof of insight. It is not proof of wisdom. It is not proof that one's conclusions are correct. What matters is the quality of the analysis and the willingness to test ideas against evidence.
The danger arises when people mistake academic status for intellectual authority. Scholarship is a living process of challenge, debate and refinement. Once a scholar stops engaging criticism, stops publishing, stops testing ideas in the marketplace of peer review and public scrutiny, their contribution risks becoming academically inert.
Credentials may command attention, but only ideas can earn respect. And ideas that are insulated from challenge eventually become dogma rather than scholarship. The public should judge arguments on their merits, not on the titles that precede someone's name.