Stellenbosch Publishers

Stellenbosch Publishers was started in 1989 in the town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. We were the first to publish an Afrikaans book on DOS (for the IBM PC). This was followed by Afrikaans and English books for the local market on Lotus, Quattro Pro, Word for Windows, Pascal, BASIC, Fortran and Excel for the local market.

As there was no Afrikaans spelling checker or thesaurus in Word for DOS nor in Word for Windows at that time, we filled this gap by developing ProefLeser (a Spelling checker) and GrEAT (an Afrikaans thesaurus). To keep pace with the subsequent versions of Word for DOS/Windows we continuously adapted and improved our ProefLeser and GrEAT.

At the same time, we branched out towards general IT, computer programming and publication services (editing, proofreading and translation). Our European customer base started growing faster than the local one, due to all the visiting overseas academics at the University of Stellenbosch.

Today, we are based in the Voorburg (near The Hague) in the Netherlands and our main activities comprise editing and translation services for academics and professionals (German, Swiss, Italian, Finnish, Dutch, French, South African and Israeli) who have to publish in English, as well as specialised translation services. The latter two are translating German medical reports into English and translating examination papers for auditors and accountants from English into Afrikaans. We use TextDynamika for these translations. This is not a pure machine translation program but is an aid to translate consistently and to build up lists with relevant words and translations,

Our part-time co-workers comprise eleven highly qualified editors and translators in South Africa, the Netherlands and Germany.

We also maintain, adapt and improve our range of linguistic software: ProefLeser, GrEAT, AeEADict and TextDynamika (see Software).

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