4 second language has some significant degree of constraint especially when competing with first language speakers. It is also evident that access to enablers such as recording avenues and promotion on media, are not available for minority peoples performing in their languages as much as it is for the Tswana and those who sing in Tswana. The education of minority children in a second or third language continues to contribute to high failure rates in minority dominated areas. Relocation of citizens from their ancestral land and destruction of their property by Land Boards is a common act for many years. These acts aggravate the poverty situation, which is more severe among minority communities. Equality before the law continues to be a concern. Sections 77-79 of the Constitutions were revised to protect the discrimination of the non-Tswana tribes, and continues to exclude their designated chiefs from participating in the House of Chiefs. Access to information in the language of their competence is yet another serious challenge facing rural minority people. In this regard, I note that while the spirit of the Declaration has been implemented to extent, knowledge about the Declaration at the national level remains low. Hence there is limited compliance with articles: 1.1, 2.3,3.4, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 8 of the Declaration.

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