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This is not a problem peculiar to DOSAE ; rather, it is one of the strongest challenges facing lexicographers of a vast number of languages in the twenty-first century, as English continues to spread, influence, and be influenced by languages all over the world in situations of intimate language contact.
(To be consistent, the DOSAE would have to indicate the word for left in all languages that appear in road signs in different parts of the country--Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana).
Yet, the citations they give afford a clue to the real status of this and numerous other items in DOSAE : This wall chart, attractive ... and tweetalig nogal [bilingual, what's more], is to be distributed to all hospitals.... and Four years in the charge office as a fraud detective.
On the whole, I recommend DOSAE highly for anyone wishing to get to grips with English in South Africa.
There is certainly a need for words of Afrikaans origin that recur in English texts (often for local color effect) to be glossed somewhere: a reference work like the DOSAE might be more convenient for readers than an Afrikaans or Xhosa or some other dictionary.