On the 6th-8th of October 2021, The English Academy of Southern Africa hosted its 20th International Conference. Due to Covid restrictions, the conference was held online but even so, it was well attended and the participants came from all over the world. The conference was opened by Prof Rajendra Chetty and the first Key note speaker of the day was Dr Sindiwe Magona. Highlights of the conference included a key note by Marianne Thamm, on her book 'Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me' and Prof Albert Weideman's talk on 'The alignment of academic language development and language policy in education' provided food for thought. Another international key note speaker was Prof Renato Tomei, who spoke about 'South African Landscapes: translations and multimodal analysis of Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country'. It was a fascinating conference with wonderful insights into the use of English in South Africa today.