Good news in fight for minority rights

For years, minority groups have been agitating for the promotion of their languages and now it seems that the efforts are about to bear fruit.  The agreement by government to a meeting is in itself a good omen after years of resistance.  The world is moving forward and granting rights to previously marginalised groups. 

Hence it is encouraging that Botswana is trying to be in tandem with the times.  The prime place of Setswana as the lingua franca of Botswana has been a source of deep unhappiness among certain ethnic groups and this is public knowledge.  Besides being the national language, Setswana is a subject of study in schools while other languages feature nowhere in national affairs.  Nobody can fault the Bakalanga for feeling hard done after their language was removed from the education system in 1972.  Since then, efforts by minority groups to promote their languages, especially as mediums of instruction in schools have met with resistance from government.