International Mother Language Day

The United Nations' (UN) International Mother Language Day annually celebrates language diversity and variety worldwide on February 21. It also remembers events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh. So today we look at whether there is still space for mother language in this forever changing world, be it professionally or socially. African Dialogue’s Benjamin Moshatama spoke toDr Thabo Ditsele senior lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Applied Languages, Ms Ntsiki Mazwai a Poet & Activist and Carrien Bloem, the project coordinator at Afri-Forum.