{"id":247772,"date":"2026-10-22T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mp-proposes-sign-language-as-official-language\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:00:31","slug":"botswana-mp-proposes-sign-language-as-official-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-mp-proposes-sign-language-as-official-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: MP Proposes Sign Language As Official Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Mochudi \u2014 Introduction of sign language as the country&#8217;s third official language could promote inclusivity and improve communication between hearing and deaf members of society, Kgatleng Central MP, Mr Mpho Morolong has asserted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Speaking at a kgotla meeting at Ntshinoge Ward in Mochudi recently, Mr Morolong said the proposal formed part of ongoing policy initiatives aimed at addressing communication barriers faced by people who relied on sign language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">He noted that several countries have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610210582.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mochudi \u2014 Introduction of sign language as the country&#8217;s third official language could promote inclusivity and improve communication between hearing and deaf members of society, Kgatleng Central MP, Mr Mpho Morolong has asserted. Speaking at a kgotla meeting at Ntshinoge Ward in Mochudi recently, Mr Morolong said the proposal formed part of ongoing policy initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":247773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,9308,257,5092,7995,4368,254],"class_list":["post-247772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-language","tag-news","tag-official","tag-proposes","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}