Cape Town - Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga on Tuesday said the department’s plans to implement Kiswahili in South African schools are underway and that the department identified pilot schools and have started with the process.
“We are looking at what comes out of the pilot to help us to plan for implementation next year in other schools,” he said. “I know people who speak English very well but they don’t necessarily meet the best people. So the key thing in education is cognitive development and it’s best served in the language you are comfortable in. If most African homes now speak English, it’s fine in the homes if that has become their home language, its fine for them because it will assist them cognitively,” Motshekga said, adding that speaking and learning in mother tongue helped in thinking well and proper.
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