For many isiXhosa-speaking residents, disaster warnings arrive too late, or in language that is difficult to understand.
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Despite a lack of enforceable remedies, international experience suggests the proposed new ‘plain language’ law should improve official communications.
As more data are collected, it’s important for the public to understand how their health information is being used. But user agreements are often complex, lengthy and written in inaccessible language.
Because judges have a secondary audience when issuing jury directions - appeal court judges - the language used has become too wordy and confusing. It needs to change.
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