Language: genuine or token?

The city was perhaps the right location for such an event given that this is where one of the most widely spoken minority languages, Ikalanga, is spoken.

In the lead-up to the day, RB1 produced jingles which, not surprisingly, featured a line or two of some of these minority languages. They were interesting jingles, though they ultimately showed the cynicism with which the mainstream of Botswana society views serious issues like the languages of the vast majority of our people.