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<p><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">Maseru-
The Sesotho Academy held a press conference on Thursday last week at the
State Library, to discuss the implementation of the language policy
that Lesotho does not have and giving a reward to a student who made
good poetry last year. <span style> </span></span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">According
to Malisema Makoa, Teboho Lefosa from Sebapala High School was the
winner in last year’s poetry competition for a good Sesotho poem. On
behalf of Lefosa,<span style> </span>a teacher from Sebapala High School has received a medal<span style> </span>and a floating trophy <span style> </span>for the school.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">Makoa
said that every year they host Sesotho poetry, where all schools are
invited and their focus is on high school level but as time goes they
will include primary and secondary levels.</span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">Professor
Francina Moloi said that a language policy is designed to favour or
discourage the use of a particular language or set of languages. She
said that Lesotho uses two languages to communicate and for educational
purposes, which are Sesotho and English.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">She indicates that here in Lesotho, <span style> </span>there
are some languages that people speak and are their mother tongue or
first languages, but are not officially recognized to be used when
communication and in educational purposes.</span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">She
further said if such people sent their children to school, they are
forced to speak Sesotho, whereas they do not know Sesotho, and that made
children drop out of school before they complete their studies.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">Furthermore,
she mentioned that Lesotho depends on foreign languages to communicate.
In addition, professor Moloi said South Africa has eleven different
languages that are officially used for communication and in educational
purposes. She said that a mother tongue makes a better foundation
especially in education.</span><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">She
said that they heard one of the local Radio stations which reads news
in Xhosa at 17:30 and another one that have a herbal advert which uses
Xhosa also.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9pt" lang="EN-ZA">She noted
that the government should have a plan for implementing the language
policy, saying that Lesotho had a language policy during independence
but a written document is not available. In 1970 the language policy
began to shake, and now English is a powerful language in
Lesotho.Professor Moloi said they will never keep quiet to let Sesotho <span style> </span>die
a natural death, but they will fight for that until Sesotho can be
recognized, and the Sesotho Academy wants to have a ministry which will
make sure that Sesotho, English, Xhosa and others are used correctly.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://www.informativenews.co.ls/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7154:sesotho-academy-needs-language-policy-to-be-implemente">http://www.informativenews.co.ls/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7154:sesotho-academy-needs-language-policy-to-be-implemente</a><br clear="all">
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