The HLS Unit of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature forms part of the Commonwealth Hansard Editors’ Association (Africa Region), as well as the international Commonwealth Hansard Editors’ Association (CHEA). To date the unit has represented the KZN Legislature at various meetings and conferences held in South Africa, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Tanzania, Uganda, the United Kingdom, India and the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Hansard editors are also involved in national and provincial structures of the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB), the Department of Arts and Culture and tertiary institutions which offer language training.