Tswana translator

Yes. Ecrivus is a Tswana translation agency that translates into and out of Tswana (Setswana). We provide both certified translation — with a signed statement of accuracy — for authorities that require it, and standard professional translation for family documents, NGO material and business papers for Botswana and South Africa.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance we provide certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). A certified Tswana translation is relatively uncommon, so we arrange it on request and confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority needs.

That depends on your audience. Tswana has two standard orthographies: a strongly disjunctive South African variant and a Botswana variant. We match the spelling to the country where your document will be read and confirm that choice up front in the quote, so a document for North West Province does not read as out of place to a reader in Botswana, or the other way round.

Common cases include birth, marriage and death certificates, school reports and asylum-related statements for immigration files handled by the Home Office and UKVI, and awareness and project material for NGOs active in Botswana and North West Province. Personal certificates may need certification, while NGO and business material is usually standard professional translation. We confirm the approach and any certification per document in the quote.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, language pair and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

A Tswana translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We select a translator who knows the right spelling variant and register for your target country, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer where the field, risk profile or volume requires it. You keep one point of contact for variant, terminology, scheduling and delivery, all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.