YOUR MESSAGE, MY WORDS: 
A TRANSLATION MATCH MADE IN CAPE TOWN*

Afrikaans, English or Dutch your jam?

Hop in and enjoy the ride!

Hello, I’m Laetitia aka TranslatorBee

Award-winning Accredited Professional Sworn Translator and Accredited Text Editor

A mouthful, I know! But what does it mean for you?

You are:
• emigrating
• going to work or study abroad
• a party in a court case
• in the import or export industry
• an emigration agency
• a law firm 
• a conveyancer, attorney or chartered accountant representing a client in matters of family, company, property or contract law

You need: 
Afrikaans to English legal translation
English to Afrikaans legal translation
Afrikaans to English sworn translation of:
• degree certificates
• school reports
• birth, adoption, marriage and death certificates
• divorce orders
• bank statements
• WhatsApp messages
• payslips
• testimonials
• affidavits
• last wills and testaments
• title deeds
• court transcripts
• lease agreements
• and a ton of other official, personal and legal documents

You are:
• a digital marketing agency
• an e-commerce company
• a Software as a Service (SaaS) firm wanting to expand into the South African market
• a translation agency (LSP) offering UI/UX localisation or machine translation post-editing (MTPE) services

You need:
South African English localisation
English to Afrikaans localisation of:
• app or software user interfaces
• help files
• software strings
• legal terms and conditions
• marketing material
• website copy
• social media posts
• and a ton of other technical and instructional documents

You are:
• a company secretary
• a government director
• an office manager
• a communications manager
• a marketing manager

You need:
English to Afrikaans translation, editing or proofreading
Afrikaans to English translation, editing or proofreading
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Dutch to English translation of:
• annual reports
• press releases
• presentations
• newsletters
• brochures
• proposals
• marketing texts
• and a ton of other client and buyer communication

You are:
• an educational publisher
• a trade publisher
• an independent publisher
• a custom publisher
• a book packager
• an author wanting to self-publish

You need:
English to Afrikaans translation, editing or proofreading
Afrikaans or English translation, editing or proofreading of:
• textbooks
• study guides
• business titles
• self-help books
• cookbooks
• self-published memoir
• narrative non-fiction 
• and a ton of other reading material

Laetitia Sullivan, Afrikaans to English sworn translator

THE GOOD NEWS

I’m accredited by the South African Translators’ Institute as English to Afrikaans translator AND Afrikaans to English translator (APTrans) AND provide professional Afrikaans and English editing and proofreading services as an accredited member (ATE) of the Professional Editors’ Guild.

THE BETTER NEWS

I’m accredited by the South African Translators’ Institute for Afrikaans to English sworn translation (APSTrans) AND I have been admitted to the High Court of South Africa (Western Cape Division) as Afrikaans to English sworn translator AND I’m accredited by the Professional Editors’ Guild as Accredited Text Editor (English).

THE BEST NEWS

I’m an award-winning translator. In 2019, I received the prize for outstanding service translation from the South African Translators’ Institute for the Afrikaans translation Insigte uit Opvoedkundige Sielkunde of the English university textbook Understanding Educational Psychology, published by Juta & Co.

TRANSLATION

Looking for professional translation services (Afrikaans, English, from Dutch) by an award-winning accredited sworn translator with 20+ years’ experience?

EDITING

Does the difference between a comma and a semicolon make your head spin? Let me polish your manuscript, report, manual, website copy so your words can shine.

PROOFREADING

Does your document or text need a last check and quality control for those glaring erors and embarrassing tipos before you send it off into the big bad world?

PORTFOLIO

Selection of 300+ books translated, edited or proofread by me.
Check out my full portfolio.

CLIENTS

Selection of past and present clients.

WHAT MY CLIENTS SAY

Check out more happy words from happy clients.

Kiara Nirghin

Thank you so much for working with me on this book! It has been great having your input on many areas of the book and its structure. I look forward to hopefully working with you in the future! 

Prof Irma Eloff, Chairperson, SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Dit was vir my een vreugde om saam met jou te kon werk! Ons terugvoer van die hoofstukouteurs rakende die kwaliteit van jou vertalings is ook baie positief. Hulle praat met groot lof van jou!

Lenore Hammond, Senior Managing Editor, Cambridge University Press

Laetitia’s work is always of a high standard and she is able to work well on a variety of lists. Her friendly and professional manner, organisational skills and reliability make her an absolute pleasure to work with.

South African Translators' Institute
Professional Editors' Guild
Trados Studio

Talk to me

Let ME help YOU:

Email: hello@translatorbee.co.za
Phone: +27 (0)84 511 5079

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*Cape Town is the beautiful city I call home and where the picture on my home page of Cortie the blue Ford Cortina was taken:
Photo by Leon Škrilec on Unsplash

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