Dinaka has roots stretching back generations, a dance and music tradition where men blew the kudu horns to announce milestones and great events, victories in…
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“Far too many girls remain unable to fulfil their right to education: poverty, child marriage, early pregnancy and child or domestic labour hold them back,” Audrey Azoulay.
UNESCO’s World Inequality Database on Education shows that, globally, children being taught in a language they speak at home are 30% more likely to read with understanding by the end of primary school than those who do not speak the language of instruction. Evidence also shows that learning in first language or mother tongue education improves children’s social skills.
GRADE 11 learner Charles Hlongwane had never been in a library until the recent official opening of the Seleteng Library in Seleteng, Ga-Mphahlele in Limpopo.…
BY resolution 59/26 of 22 November 2004, the UN General Assembly declared 8–9 May as a time of remembrance and reconciliation and, while recognizing that Member States…
The tragedy with history is that it offers so much yet still so little in answers to understanding the past. It’s a never ending process…
Music giant Dr Jonas Gwangwa who passed away on 23 January used his influence to promote the language of his people MaNdebele ase Nyakatho writes…
The United Nations has designated the period between 2022 and 2032 as the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Malesela Maubane pays tribute to a pioneer…
LUCAS LEDWABA looks back to a different time as the world observes World Teachers Day Everyone dreaded the revision classes of our General Science and…
At a time when newspapers are battling to survive due to dwindling sales and revenue - one man is determined to keep his publication going despite the odds as part of his mission to keep his mother tongue alive.