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South Africa is not only a multilingual country because of the different languages spoken by its citizens. Rather, the country has throughout the years attracted many nationalities from mainly the African continent and across other parts of the world. This brings attention to the need for the development of multilingualism in education at different levels. This could be first initiated at tertiary level during the training of teachers who would in turn be able to do so at school level when they start teaching. The teaching approach that could be promoted in this regard is translanguaging, that is , a shift between two or more languages when speaking, reading and writing for learning and assessment. In a country where resources in African languages are limited because of the dominance of an ex-colonial language, English, the workshop proposes various ways in which student-teachers could develop lessons that promote social justice. These lessons would promote equality especially for the majority of South African students who often find themselves marginalized because of education that is transmitted through a language that is not theirs.
