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Balaodi Publishers

Seipone Madireng is a fortnightly newspaper that is published in Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi language. It started in August 2002 with seed funding from the Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB). It was one of the two pilot newspaper projects developed to establish newspapers written in all Indigenous South African languages to fulfil the aspirations of the PanSALB Act.

The newspaper was established with the aim of fostering social cohesion between mainly three ethnic groupings of Basotho sa Leboa / Bapedi, VhaTsonga, and Vhavenda. Accordingly, Seipone became a trilingual newspaper that was published in Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi, Xitsonga, and Tshivenda since 2002 until 2007 when the newspaper switched to be written in one language – Sesotho sa Leboa/Sepedi.

The project aims to create a society of truly proud African people who can express their pride through their language of Northern Sotho (Sepedi).

From 2008 until now the newspaper has been published as a fortnightly publication in Sesotho sa Leboa / Sepedi. The newspaper has since developed its own website, which can be accessed at https://seiponemadireng.co.za.

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