Let your language loose with the 2022 Pendoring Awards
Are you a wizard with words in your mother tongue? Enter this year's Pendoring Awards and get rewarded for your creativity.
Around 4 892 623 South Africans speak English as their first language. That’s about 9.6% of the population. This means that over 90% of us dream, think, and start our mornings in an indigenous language mother tongue. But that doesn’t mean we just stop talking. The average South African uses 2.84 languages.
Most South Africans start their day by packing away their first language in a metaphorical suitcase. This language has no choice, this language did not ask to be shut up and hidden away from the world. When we stow away our isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Afrikaans, Siwati, Xitshonga, isigiNdebele, Setswana, Tshivenda, and Sepedi for the day, something is happening in that suitcase while we are chatting away in English, our second, third or fourth language…
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Like an angry mother waiting in dim light after midnight, it’s heaving and breathing, it’s stretching and scheming, it’s puffing and panting ready to get out and give you a good talking to.
The Pendoring Awards provide the opportunity for you to #LetYourLanguageLoose. Pendoring is looking for the best indigenous language creative content that South Africa has to offer – there are a range of categories available to both students and professionals.
A reminder that the Pendoring Awards are unique in that it is the only advertising competition in South Africa with substantial cash prizes, not only for the overall winners, but also for gold and silver winners in each category.
Your language wants to win a #Pendoring2022. Visit www.pendoring.co.za for entry details and more information.
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