Preserving culture through clothing

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Local clothing labels have become the most popular brands worn by the fashion conscious, thanks to many young creative Batswana who are flooding the domestic market with their designs.

 Two of such young innovative entrepreneurs are 24-year-old Dimakatso Kebuang and Chose Ntsheme, 23, who have in fact gone a step further by creating a label promoting their native Kalanga language. 

They told Showbiz that while studying languages of minority ethnic groups in Botswana they realised that their culture was diminishing because of the impact of Western cultural practices on traditional African societies.

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