Administrative members

Michelle Rabie

Co-founder · Operations and quality · Multilingual workflows

Michelle Rabie is an Afrikaans language practitioner and translation operations consultant based in Cape Town.

She has worked in the language industry since 1999, building a career that spans agency ownership, quality management, multilingual workflow design, pharmaceutical and educational publishing projects and hands-on linguistic work. Over the years she has worked across South Africa’s official languages and in broader African contexts, with a particular interest in nonstandardised and low-resource languages.

Michelle works at the intersection of language, ethics and systems. Her focus is not only on words, but on how multilingual projects are structured, how quality is safeguarded and how client expectations align with the realities of language work in Africa. She has designed quality frameworks for pharmaceutical and educational accounts, developed multilingual clinical trial workflows and delivered workshops on plain language, translation technology and professional practice.

She is a member of SATI, PEG and SACRA, has served on professional councils and regularly contributes to industry discussions on AI, quality standards and the future of African language practice.

In August 2025, she co-founded The TaalKraal with Charles Scheepers as a space for African language practitioners to connect, share knowledge and strengthen professional resilience.

At heart, she is a logophile who believes that language is both craft and responsibility – and that practitioners are stronger when they stand together.

Charles Scheepers

Co-founder · Systems and operations · Language technology

Charles is a systems-focused operations specialist with a background in IT, process engineering and language technology. He is the founder of PyTools.tech and co-founder of The TaalKraal. He is the developer of tools such as TermFlow and ProofFlow, designed to strengthen quality control, terminology governance and workflow integrity in the language industry.

His professional focus has consistently centred on building resilient systems that reduce operational risk, protect data integrity and prevent avoidable failure. With experience in system administration, automation, translation memory management and operational oversight, he approaches workflows from a structural perspective – identifying weak points, eliminating ambiguity and reinforcing accountability.

A growing concern about online fraud, identity misuse and weak digital governance in freelance ecosystems led him to contribute to scam prevention efforts through The TaalKraal. His work emphasises practical security awareness, disciplined processes and informed scepticism as essential tools for professionals operating in increasingly complex and AI-driven environments.