{"id":11126,"date":"2013-10-16T06:16:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2013-10-16T06:16:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T06:16:48","slug":"moshekga-supports-mother-tongue-education-against-jansens-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11126","title":{"rendered":"Moshekga supports mother-tongue education, against Jansen&#8217;s imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3315\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angie-motshekga1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3315\" alt=\"Angie Motshekga\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angie-motshekga1-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angie-motshekga1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angie-motshekga1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie Motshekga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Children are likely to achieve higher levels of literacy when using a home language in schools, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Research shows that children are likely to achieve higher levels of literacy when using a home language in school, in our case, African languages like IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Setswana and others,&#8221; she said in a speech prepared for delivery at the 10th international language and development conference in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Developing and speaking the languages of the land and the languages acquired as part of the colonial enterprise would bring to speed the realisation of a united and integrated Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;South Africa&#8217;s experience will assist the conference to deeply appreciate the importance of language in society and how it is critical to liberating the mind,&#8221; said Motshekga.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said that even beyond apartheid and its discourses of difference, language still affected on relations and opportunities in life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This conference is of importance as it gets us thinking and reflecting on an important review of the Millennium Development Goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conference promised to provide a useful lens through which everyone could interrogate critically the extent to which countries had performed in pursuance of the Millennium Development Goals, she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Millennium Development Goals are set targets to be reached in eight areas, including poverty, unemployment, and education, by 2015. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children are likely to achieve higher levels of literacy when using a home language in schools, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. &#8220;Research shows that children are likely to achieve higher levels of literacy when using a home language in school, in our case, African languages like IsiZulu, IsiXhosa, Setswana and others,&#8221; she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11126\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moshekga supports mother-tongue education, against Jansen&#8217;s imperialism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[460,6975,6977,6974,6976],"class_list":["post-11126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-angie-motshekga","tag-home-language","tag-millennium-development-goals","tag-minister-of-basic-education","tag-mother-tongue-education"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/angie-motshekga1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11127,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions\/11127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}