A new study of language and social change in post-apartheid South Africa demonstrates that gender is a more powerful determinant than class among black university students. The study “Class, gender, and substrate erasure in sociolinguistic change: A sociophonetic study of schwa in deracializing South African English”, by Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town) will be published in the June, 2017 issue of the scholarly journal Language.