'Language policy discriminates'- UB academic

By choosing to use only two languages, English and Setswana as a medium of instruction in schools, government has formalised some form of cultural discrimination, a University of Botswana academic, Dr. Rebecca Lekoko has stated.

Through this discriminating language policy, government was denying people their birth right identity and culture, the don said.

Dr. Lekoko was speaking yesterday at a roundtable discussion of inequalities and marginalisation in Botswana organised by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA).

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