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The department hosted 13 Multilingualism Awareness Campaigns to educate and enlighten the community about their linguistic human rights as well as encourage learners to write in their indigenous languages and promote the use of these languages. Of these, 10 events bene ¿ tted a total of 1 094 participants (403 male, 689 female and 2 LGBTIQA). The campaigns included Indigenous Languages on the GO! held at the Kagiso Memorial and Recreation Centre in Kagiso on 5 June 2019; and the Deaf School Sports Tournament was held on 13 September 2019 at Ekurhuleni School for the Deaf. Two Writer’s Competitions were held: on 13 June 2019 at the Barcelona Primary School in Daveyton and on 17 September 2019 at Boksburg Correctional Centre with participation by inmates from Boksburg and Heidelberg who wrote poems in their mother languages. Multilingual debate eliminations were held in collaboration with GDE in all 4 districts in

Tshwane primary and high schools. The Multilingual Debate Finals were held at the Ikageng Community Hall in Mamelodi, Tshwane on 18 October 2019. The Indigenous Languages Word Ruf À e was held on 11 December 2019 at Boksburg Correctional Services; and International Mother Language Day was celebrated on the 21 February 2020 in partnership with the Department of Arts and Culture and other provincial departments in Kwa Mbonambi in KwaZulu- Natal. The Pan SouthAfrican Language Board (PANSALB) appointed its 13-member Provincial Language Committee on 1 June 2019 to advise PANSALB and the MEC for Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation on matters related to the promotion of multilingualism in the province. The committee was inducted from 12–13 August 2019 at the Intercontinental Hotel at O.R Tambo International; and hosted one language coordinating structure, on 22 January 2020, at PANSALB’s of ¿ ces in Pretoria.

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