Ikalanga promotion needs focused leaders

The observation was made by Tshidzanani Malaba, secretary and co-founding member of the Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association in Zimbabwe. Malaba was the guest speaker at the Domboshaba Cultural festival on Monday.

He highlighted that the use of Ikalanga was stifled in various key platforms in the country such as the education system. The arrangement he said has resulted in most indigenous knowledge systems that came with the language being lost, ultimately resulting in the language played a very minimal role in various aspects of development of their country.