Translation World - translation, translation world, Setswana, Sesotho, Northern Sotho, Sepedi, Zulu, Xhosa, Siswati, Ndebele, Xitsonga, Tshivenda, Afrikaans, English, Shona, French, Portuguese.

Mr Simon Kemisho, the founder and Managing Director of The Translation World, has extensive experience in the translation industry spanning over 20 years. Of those years he has served in various executive positions such as in the Executive of the South African Translators Institute, the Advisory Board of Technikon Northern Gauteng, the Editors Forum of Lesaka (a division of the Department of Communications) Language Portals. He is also accredited by the South African Translators Institute and Sworn by the Supreme Court (now the High Court) of South Africa. Holds a post graduate qualification in translation, from Wits University. He has an immense translation experience in diverse fields such as legal, medical, financial and pharmaceutical texts.

Staff Profile

Our language practitioners team represents the best that the language practicing field has to offer. They are highly qualified professionals and have extensive experience in their field. Every member of our translation and localization team is a trained expert and the majority of them have at least a decade of proven performance in the translation industry. The majority of them hold post graduate university qualifications such as honours, masters and doctorate degrees. They are also mother-tongue speakers of the languages they work with.

Our Mission

We are committed to earning the confidence and loyalty of our clients by an uncompromising commitment to quality, by meeting deadlines, by listening carefully and responding quickly to their criticism and commendation and by using only professional, qualified and experienced language practitioners.

We want to become leaders in the language practicing industry and providing innovative solutions that anticipate new market needs and maintain our clients' competitive edge.

We strive to create and maintain a close bond based on respect, integrity, honesty and professionalism.

We are committed to being good corporate citizens, maintaining our business ethics and conducting ourselves with honesty and integrity at all times.

We are committed to creating an entrepreneurial culture that demonstrates concern for every employee, while producing an energetic, enjoyable, challenging and professional work environment for our employees with a business and profitability mindset.