In a quite bizarre episode in parliament as the budget session winded down, the Deputy Speaker, Pono Moatlhodi, had to beg MPs to speak in Setswana in order that a foreign delegation sitting in the public gallery couldn’t follow a debate in which the Maun West MP, Dumelang Saleshando, had implicated President Mokgweetsi Masisi’s family in suspicious tendering activity. Unfortunately for Moatlhodi, linguistic habit and Tswanglish may have loused up what may otherwise have been a perfect plan.
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