Bakalanga given hope

The willingness of the ministry to dialogue is the culmination of two years  of consultations between Bakalanga representatives and the ministry.

On October 3, 2009 Domboshaba Cultural Trust wrote a letter to the ministry on the authority of the Domboshaba Festival of Culture and History. Co-signed by the chairman and secretary of the Trust, Modisaotsile Mothibi and Kangangwani Phatshwane respectively, the letter to the minister requested government to take active steps "by initiating the teaching of Ikalanga in schools, essentially re-introducing the Kalanga teaching system that was in place prior to independence until government withdrew it in 1972".