August 4, 2024

Olebeng's visit to Bathurst

It was my pleasure to host Dr Olebeng Mahura in Bathurst this weekend. I first met Olebeng at the ICPLA conference in 2016 in Halifax, Canada. We have kept in touch - and Olebeng co-authored four chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Speech Development in Languages of the World that I edited. 

  • Setswana speech development
  • Xhosa/isiXhosa speech development
  • Zulu/isiZulu speech development
  • English (South African) speech development.

It was great to show her around Charles Sturt University and Bathurst.

Olebeng saw 144 kangaroos at CSU and Mt Panorama
including the rare albino and a wallaby

Olebeng visiting the TRex in the Fossil and Mineral Museum

Sharynne and Olebeng next to the replica of the
largest gold nugget ever found in the world (near Bathurst)

Olebeng in my office at CSU

Olebeng visited The Treehouse
Olebeng is working on a website - SpeechOn - to provide resources in indigenous African languages (Setswana, isiZulu, isiXhosa).


SpeechOn: https://www.speechon.co/about