South Africa: a sociolinguistic overview / Khoesan languages / Bantu languages: sociohistorical perspectives / Afrikaans: considering origins / South African English / South African sign language: one language or many? / German speakers in South Africa / Language change, survival, decline: Indian languages in South Africa / Fanakalo: a pidgin in South Africa / Mutual lexical borrowings among some languages of southern Africa: Xhosa, Afrikaans and English / Code-switching, mixing and convergence in Cape Town / Code-switching in South African townships / Intercultural miscommunication in South Africa -- Women's language of respect: isihlonipho sabafazi / Sociohistory of clicks in SOuthern Bantu / Political economy of language shift: language and gendered ethnicity in a Thonga community / From second language to first language: Indian South African English / Black South African English / Lexicon and sociolinguistic codes of the working-class Afrikaans-speaking Cape Peninsula coloured community / Introduction to Flaaitaal (or Tsotsitaal) / Language and language practices in Soweto / Language planning and language policy: past, present and future / Language issues in South African education: an overview / Recovering multilingualism: recent language-policy developments