Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Release of Nelson Mandela as the Advent of Democracy -- 2. Shifts in the Linguistic Landscape, post 1994 -- 3. Linguistic Changes in Parliament 1994-1998: Paving the Way for Linguistic Democracy -- 4. Reconfigured Features of the African Oral Tradition -- 5. Recontextualised Residues of Rhetoric from the Previous Era -- 6. Historical Explanations for Literacy Backlogs in South Africa -- 7. Black South African English Versus Other African Englishes in the 1990s -- 8. The Rhetoric of Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance -- 9. The Debate on African Identity in South Africa -- 10. Expressions of Neo-Traditional Patriarchy in the Speeches of President Zuma -- 11. Return to Self-Censorship in Political Journalism: Echoes of the 1950s and 1960s -- 12. Localisation Initiatives -- 13. The Position of African Languages -- 14. Superdiversity and Translanguaging: A New Discursive Order -- References -- Index