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Sibeko, J. and van Zaanen, M. 2024. Developing and testing syllabification systems for South African Sesotho. Language Resources and Evaluation, pp.1-16.
Ngcungca, N., and Sibeko, J. (2024). Unmasking Deception: An Exploratory Study of Viewers’ Attitudes Towards Romantic Betrayal. Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, 5(1):1-11.
Gabby Sipho Dlamini. (2023). Dualism’s dilemmas: citizenship and migration in contemporary eSwatini, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 41(2):141-151.
Sibeko, J. and Van Zaanen, M. 2023. A data set of final year high school examination texts of South African home and first additional language subjects. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 9(1):9.
Sibeko, J. 2023. Using classical readability formulas to measure text readability in Sesotho. Selected papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2022. Ed. by Tomaž Erjavec and Maria Eskevich. Linköping. Electronic Conference Proceedings, 198, pp. 120–132.
Sibeko, J. and Setaka, M. 2022. An overview of Sesotho BLARK content. Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, 4(1): 1-12.
Sibeko, J. 2022. Exploring linguistic complexity of English First Additional Language Grade 12 and Grade 11 exam texts. Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, 4(2):1-11.
Jess Auerbach & Gabby S. Dlamini (2021) Introduction: When the scaffolds give way, Anthropology Southern Africa, 44(3):105-108.

Sibeko, J. and Van Zaanen, M., 2024, May. Adapting Nine Traditional Text Readability Measures into Sesotho. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages@ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 66-76).

Ngcungca, N., Sibeko, J. and Rudman, S., 2024, May. A Qualitative Inquiry into the South African Language Identifier’s Performance on YouTube Comments. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages@ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 45-54).

Sibeko, J., 2024, May. Compiling a List of Frequently Used Setswana Words for Developing Readability Measures. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages@ LREC-COLING 2024 (pp. 37-44).

Sibeko, J. and De Clercq, O. 2023. A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho. Proceedings of the fourth workshop of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL), 2-6 May, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Sibeko, J. and Setaka, M. 2023. Evaluating the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system on Sepedi and Setswana words. Proceedings of the fourth workshop of Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL), 2-6 May, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Sibeko, J. 2023. Developing Sesotho Readability Assessment: Challenges and Solutions. First Workshop on Readability for Low-Resourced Languages (RLRL 2023). 5 September 2023. ONLINE.

Sibeko, J. and Lemeko, PA. 2023. Developing a Text Readability Corpus using Google Translate for Low-Resourced South African Indigenous Languages. Sol Plaatje University International Language Conference. 6 – 8 September 2023. Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

Sibeko, J. and van Zaanen. 2022. Developing a text readability system for Sesotho based on classical readability metrics. Digital Humanities DH2022 conference: Responding to Asian Diversity. July, 25 – 29, 2022. University of Tokyo, Japan. [Short paper]. pp. 571 – 572.

Sibeko, J. 2022. In Erjavec, T., and Eskevich, M (eds). CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, CLARIN Annual Conference Proceedings, 10-12 October, Prague, Czechia. [PhD student paper]. [ABSTRACT]

2023 Book Creative Output: Illustrations, design and layout Author: Sutherland, Paul 2023, Interfaith Parenting with Love and in association with Edwina Cowell, founder of Spiritual Playdate. Book presented at United States parliament in August 2023.

De Raedt, A, Rennie, T and Van der Walt, L 2021, Book Bag [Project]. Nelson Mandela University. Available at: https://news.mandela.ac.za/News/Mandela-Uni-Convergence-Fund-s-Book-Bag-Project (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Designer and Illustrator for the following publications: Sutherland, P, 2023, Interfaith Parenting with Love, STEPi, South Africa: pp. Cover, 1,3,5,7,9-12,14,16,19,20,22,24,25,27,29, illus. Available at: https://www.flipsnack.com/readforfun/interfaith-parenting-with-love-ukib8f9xu3/full-view.html (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Sutherland, P, 2021, Parenting with Love, STEPi, South Africa: pp Cover 1-7,8-10,14, 17, 18, 21-23, 25-29, illus. Available at: https://www.flipsnack.com/readforfun/parenting-with-love-south-africa/full-view.html (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Rennie, T and Moodley, S, 2022, Online Repository, Available at: 2022 Online Repository https://www.mandela.ac.za/flipbooks/Online%20Repository%2022/mobile/index.html (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Rennie, T and Moodley, S, 2021, Media and Communication Design Student and Film Festival [Exhibit], Available at: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=4cDWfDsSkVT (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Rennie, T and Moodley, S, 2020, Media and Communication Design Student and Film Festival [Exhibit], Available at: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=Gxhvoo2T3pJ (Accessed 21 November 2023)

Konik, I. 2018, Whitehorsepress: Transversal bridging of African and womanist standpoints: Seeking a life-affirming global ethic. Available at: https://whitehorsepress.blog/2018/02/27/transversal-bridging-of-african-and-womanist-standpoints-seeking-a-life-affirming-global-ethic/ (Accessed 21 November 2018)