Khelobedu To Be Recognized as 12th Official Language

Request by Modjadji Royal Council To Perceive Khelobedu As Twelfth Official Dialect

The dialect is believed to be spoken by more than 1 million individuals.



The Modjadji Royal Family and Council, known for their supposed heavenly rain-making powers, have begged Limpopo Premier Stan Mathabatha and President Cyril Ramaphosa to make Khelobedu the twelfth official dialect in South Africa.

Director for the board John Malatji said amid the residency of Nelson Mandela numerous advances were made in enhancing the family and their faction's status. Be that as it may, Malatji said the family, which leads more than 129 communities with demographics of more than 1.1 million people, needs one additionally thing: "Mandela has allowed all we requested, aside from the Khelobedu dialect to be made the twelfth official dialect."

Malatji said this request originated from the reality the community's kids continually get the short end of the stick due to the non-official status of the dialect.

"Kids regularly understand better when they talk in their own dialect. Yet, that isn't the situation with Balobedu-talking youngsters.

"They are typically compelled to make an interpretation of Khelobedu into Sepedi when they sit for educational tests in school. That is the reason some of them come up short their first language: when they get into test rooms they begin to keep quiet, in light of the fact that Sepedi isn't their primary language," included Malatji.

The family and the chamber have written to Mathabatha and previous presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma without any result. They have additionally spoke to the Commission for the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities for the dialect's acknowledgment.

Mathole Motshekga, Chairperson for the Kara Heritage Institute, which manages the advancement of African Renaissance by advancing social legacy, showed that the supplication by the Modjadji Royal Family and Council was certifiable.

He said the request was taken to parliament for thought.

"It is simply an issue of time before the kids in Bolobedu begin to utilize Khelobedu as their first language in classrooms. In any case, the dialect still should be created and enhanced before it is made an official dialect," he said.

ArchBishop Prince Madlakadlaka Molewa of Motupa, a conspicuous writing and language structure fundi who composes books and sonnets in Khelobedu, said Khelobedu had just been created and is prepared to be conveyed to libraries in Limpopo for understudies and understudies in Bolobedu to learn and peruse in their first language.

Molewa said Khelobedu was a rich dialect, established with social substance, and is spoken by communities from along the Great Letaba River to Phalaborwa, Hoedspruit, Tzaneen, Modjadjiskloof and parts of Polokwane.

Prominent performers King Monada, The Double Trouble (Janisto & CK) and Master KG, all from Tzaneen, additionally use Khelobedu to compose their music which is of recent widely know throughout the country and neighboring countries.

King Monada and Master KG asserted first and second places in the current year's South African Music Awards for Song of the Year.

The Limpopo Department of Education recognized the Modjadjies for their supplication and said the Department was prepared to help the dialect's acknowledgment.