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Dr Zakeera Docrat is the first South African elected to the executive board of the International Association for Forensic and Legal Linguistics.

Forensic and legal linguistics is the study of language and its role in legal systems, and it's a relatively new field in Africa.

But since 2017, the country has emerged as a key contributor, thanks largely to the groundbreaking work of Dr Docrat, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of the Western Cape.

*This article was first published by eNCA News