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Language issue remains pertinent to Africa’s decolonial project

In 1985, the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union (AU), adopted the Language Action Plan for Africa as an Africa-wide drive to centre African languages in the continent's post-independent development programmes. The language issue remains pertinent to the continent's decolonial project.

Language pioneer OK Matsepe paved the way for preservation of Northern Sotho

Furthermore, Prof LenkaBula is spot on with the observation that Matsepe was “a product of history grounded in Sepedi tradition wherein we can draw on him as a source of the usage of ‘kgoro’ or ‘royal courtyard’ as a traditional place of resolving societal issues and disputes including gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) and all forms of women abuse.”