South Africa is a linguistically diverse country with 11 official languages, including English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, and many others. The importance of medical translation in South Africa is to ensure clear and accurate information exchange between patients and healthcare providers. Healthcare providers often need to communicate with patients in their native […]
Portuguese is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, that originates from the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Portuguese is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages, placed sixth behind Chinese, Spanish, English, Hindi, and Arabic. The language has two main kinds of Portuguese, namely Brazilian and European. Brazilian […]
Legal translation. Legal translation can be described as the process of transforming legal materials from one language to another. Unlike other fields of translation, this one involves finding comparable theory in two different legal systems. The target text must be of the same meaning, yet not identical, to the source text. [...]
In South Africa, sworn translations commonly known as certified translation are legally valid translations that are done by a translator who has been sworn in before a court of law. The term Sworn translation is little-known but necessary and mandatory for any documents that have some legal significance and which need […]
A will also call a Testament is a signed, written, and legal document that outlines how a person wishes to distribute their estate after their death. Most people can write a simple will without a lawyer, but some situations require professional help. It also nominates who is responsible for the management […]