Chapter 1: Totobolepung ya diema: Kgoboketšoema ya Soshanguve

Soshanguve paremiology is an ongoing project that intends to preserve, revitalise, and promote indigenous knowledge contained in proverbs, as well as mainstream linguistic diversity and multilingualism aspects, in sustainable development efforts. The management of indigenous knowledge contained in proverbs should be part of the main focus in the archive conversation. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the process of digitising proverbs in institutional websites in South Africa. Sufficient research has been conducted on proverb dictionaries in other languages such as Portuguese, Italian, and English, among others. Nevertheless, there is still a gap in the availability or publication of online proverbs dictionaries for South African indigenous languages. This study used the qualitative research approach, which is associated with the interpretivist paradigm. It used a case study to explore the development of a multilingual quaddirectional proverbs website. The study reveals that web archiving is a vital tool for preserving and revitalising proverbs. Moreover, features of the proverbial dictionary microstructure can be made accessible through an electronic medium as an effort to digitise indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). Furthermore, in-depth knowledge of web archiving as a digital preservation measure is a vital component of online dictionary writing. We propose that for the purpose of revitalising the use of proverbs, an online dictionary and its website should be responsive so that it can be used on various devices, not just on a desktop computer.