Mukondli Dumela’s Twitter bio reads: ‘Tech • African Languages • History’, summing up the work the 30-year-old has been doing through his language platform, Xitsonga.org.

Xitsonga.org started as a dictionary for Dumela’s mother tongue, Xitsonga, when he couldn’t find certain words while doing a research project while at university. “I grew up in Limpopo, only coming to Gauteng to study (at the University of Pretoria). I started realising that there’s a lack of content available in African languages, especially the minority groups such as Xitsonga and Tshivenda. Being a native speaker of Xitsonga, I decided to use that to my advantage.”