Hlumelo Makunga, a 19-year-old Wits University student, is living proof that learning in one's mother tongue can be beneficial to schoolchildren. In 2016, when Makunga entered grade 4 at Ngubezulu Primary School in Tsomo, he was introduced to Mother Tongue-Based Bilingual Education MTbBE. IsiXhosa was the primary language of instruction 80 and English was a secondary language 20 until he passed grade 7.
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