This corpus project, set up by the Department of English Language and Linguistics at Rhodes University, collaborating with staff from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Stellenbosch University, explores to what extent variables such as ethnicity, first language, class and education, play a role in English language variety in South Africa, focusing mainly on accent. The compiled corpus comprises the speech of white educated mother-tongue speakers of South African English, as distinct from Afrikaans English and Indian English, and the English second language (L2) varieties, employed by speakers of indigenous African languages.