With completion of the New Testament in one of the San languages and ikalanga recently, three more translation projects are in the offing. While the San project is headquartered in Ghanzi at D'kar, the Kalanga Translation Project, which is currently about to complete its translation of the Old Testament, is based in Francistown. The three new Bible translation projects, sponsored by different churches, will be working among the Yeyi in Maun, Bakgalagadi in Kgalagadi and the San in Shakawe. Translation of the New Testament into one of the San languages and ikalanga were recently completed.
To facilitate the translation effort for the new projects, a workshop was recently held in Gaborone where translators and coordinators from the old projects interacted with their counterparts on the new ones. Said the coordinator of the Kalanga Bible Translation Project (KBTP), Tafuluka Kubuya: "We met at a workshop to know each other as we shall be working together. Most importantly, the interaction gave the just-started projects an opportunity to learn from the old projects about the challenges they are going to encounter as they go about their work."
