This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association on ICT Education, SACLA 2021, held in Johannesburg, South Africa in July 2021.  The 9 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected fromthe 23 submissions. One invited paper was also included in this volume. The papers are organized in following topical sections: ​past, present and future; teaching innovation; teaching methods and strategies.