{"id":24008,"date":"2026-02-20T09:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T07:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-celebrate-world-mother-tongue-language-day-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:46","slug":"sa-to-celebrate-world-mother-tongue-language-day-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-to-celebrate-world-mother-tongue-language-day-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"SA to celebrate World Mother Tongue Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Pan South African Language Board consider mother tongue-based bilingual education as vital in learning for understanding and education must enrich and solve societal problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The World Mother Tongue Language Day will be celebrated on\u00a0<\/span>February 21.<\/p>\n<p>The board held an event to mark the International Mother Tongue Language Day in Mbombela, Mpumalanga Province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Mother tongue language authors urged government to assist with the circulation of their books.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Sabelo\u00a0Mthobeni has written four books in\u00a0isiNdebele, with topics ranging from albinism, sexual identity to\u00a0Ndebele\u00a0culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">One of his books has been translated into braille.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24009,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-24008","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Mother Tongue Language Day","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26819,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24008\/revisions\/26819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}