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Translate.org.za is a non-profit organisation producing Free and Open Source software that enables and empowers South Africans. The Translate Project started in 2001 with the vision of providing Free and Open Source Software translated into the 11 official languages of South Africa. Free Software in your language is true empowerment.

Funders & partners

Various organisations have funded the work of Translate.org.za over the years.  We would like to thank them, as without their generous support we would not have been able to achieve what we have to date. In chronological order these are:

Achievements

We at Translate.org.za are proud of what we have achieved over the years. We believe that our solutions not only provide practial interventions to help individuals, and to promote language.  But we also see our work as acting as a catalyst for many proprietary vendors who pay lip service to language but spring into gear when our efforts threaten to demonstrate how little they have done.

The following is a list of key achievements for the organisation:

  • KDE in Xhosa
  • Mozilla localiation
  • Together with PRAESA we host the first Translate@thon, a community driven localisation of Mozilla into Xhosa.
  • Translate parts of GNOME and Red Hat Linux into Afrikaans, Northern Sotho and Zulu.  Creating the first desktop and operating system in a South African language.
  • The first Free Software Afrikaans spell checker released.
  • OpenOffice.org release in 3 South African languages.  The first office suite translated into a South African language.
  • OpenOffice.org releasd in 11 South African languages.
  • Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird translated into all 11 official languages.
  • Creaters and maintainers of the Translate toolkit and Pootle.