IsiZulu News (articles and headlines) and Siswati News (headlines) Corpora

Dataset for both isiZulu news (articles and headlines) and Siswati news headlines. Process included scraping the data from internet, from Isolezwe news website isolezwe.co.za and public posts from the SABC news LigwalagwalaFM Facebook page facebook.com respectively.

The obtained datasets are isiZulu news articles, isiZulu news headlines, and Siswati news headlines.

Post data collection the datasets were then sent to annotators, and they were sent back after the annotation process. The datasets contain special characters, some English words and characters that are not ASCII encoded which must be removed prior to model training. The aim of these three datasets is to create a baseline news categorisation model for the two South African low resources languages i.e. isiZulu and Siswati.