The CASAS Project, which is supported by the Ford Foundation Special Initiative for Africa (SIA) is making rapid progress towards the development of harmonized orthographic and spelling rules for the large trans-border and regional languages of Africa. The project, which is Africa-wide, has done work in all the major regions of the continent including the West, North, Eastern and Southern sub-regions of the continent. The latest of such work has recently been taken forward to a successful conclusion in Johannesburg, 11 ? 14 June 2003, for the two principal languages which are spoken in Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia. The focus of the work was the Nguni cluster, the Sotho/Tswana cluster and the Tsonga/Shangaan cluster.