angeles. sandra shell was punched in the header she waited to catch a bus the suspect has been charged with murder. progressive la county district attorney is facing a new round of criticism tonight over a light sentence for transgender woman who sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl when the offender was just two weeks shy of turning 18. were taking a closer look at this case live tonight. good evening. this happened years ago but this suspect was only recently discovered after being arrested on a different charge and a whole different state. investigators say that back in 2014 she s now identified as a female and as hannah was just two weeks from their 18th birthday. that is when they say she walked into a woman s restroom and california. tubs hid in a stall and when a ten-year-old girl entered alone, he grabbed her and the less that the girl. five years later in 2019 he
The Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote in 1986 in
Decolonising the Mind that, “Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world… Language is thus inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world.”
In South Africa, the role of language has always been a powerful one. In 1976, the Soweto Uprising was sparked by the forced imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Soweto schools. When our new Constitution was enacted it contained 11 official languages, as well as a section that states: “Recognising the historically diminished use and status of the indigenous languages of our people, the state must take practical and positive measures to elevate the status and advance the use of these languages.”