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We need to get the editor on this wiki. It would help get people who are willing to contribute but are not that happy to do text edits. Mohau Talk 11:04, 27 Diphalane 2016 (SAST)[reply]

Bošušumetša

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Anyone knows what Bošušumetša is? Mohau 18:33, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

I think we should remove it, have no idea what it is.


I cant help on that one but go sussumetsa is to force through pushing mostly to a heat concentrated environment. Is widely used when dry cattle dung (disu in N. Sotho) is forced underneath the 3-legged pot for fire. Futher more the BO as a prefix to the word makes it a place as per language structure. kgomo waKganakga (motlokwa yo mogolo,2010'02)


Motšhošetši is terrorist, so that might have been the intent. Boitumelo 17:49, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Thutaswika

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Any idea what this might be, Geology maybe? But then Geology includes liquids and it is not just the study of rocks. Boitumelo 19:24, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

Thutaswika is definately Geology irrespective of what the study details. It should be noted that language has been in existance for a long time and our forefathers where not studing in fields like Geology. Kgomo waKganakga 2010'02

Question about geographical names

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Can anyone translate to Sepedi geographical names listed below? Aotearoa 08:21, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

  • Crocodile River
  • Bushveld
  • Veld
  • Murchison Range
  • Kruger National Park
  • Transvaal

Help Needed

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Century and Decade

I have changed the template on the dates artles to use Year Nav as attached on this page.

Ngwagakete: Ngwagakete 3
Mengwagakgolo: Ngwagakgolo 20Ngwagakgolo 21Ngwagakgolo 22
Mengwagasome: 1980s  1990s  2000s  – 2010s –  2020s  2030s  2040s
Mengwaga: 2007 2008 200920102011 2012 2013

Can anyone please add the missing articles to the project.

Thanks in Advance Mohau 13:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)


  • Done Ngwagakete 1,2,3 and 4 Fahlaza 19:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)


VisualEditor coming to this wiki

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Hello. Please excuse the English. I would be grateful if you can translate this message!

VisualEditor is coming to this project on December 2, 2013. VisualEditor is software in development to allow people to edit pages in MediaWiki without needing to learn wikitext syntax (like typing [[ to start a link). It is already available and in use on some Wikipedia projects. Please see mw:Help:VisualEditor/FAQ for more information.

When this software arrives, you will have the option to use it or to use the current wikitext editor. When you press “edit”, you will get the new VisualEditor software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press “edit source”. For more information about how to use VisualEditor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.

We hope that this software will be useful to people in your community, and we can really use your help to make it better! Please let us know if you find any problems. If you're willing and able, please report the issue in bugzilla in the "VisualEditor" product. If you would prefer not, please explain the issue you found on the central feedback page on mediawiki.org. Once VisualEditor is made available, if there are any urgent problems, like an unexpected bug suddenly causing widespread severe problems, please e-mail James Forrester, the Product Manager, at jforrester@wikimedia.org for immediate attention.

We would also appreciate help with translation with the pages about VisualEditor here and on MediaWiki.org, and its user interface. To translate the user interface, start by creating an account at TranslateWiki. Once your account request is approved, all you need to do is select your language from this list. This will give you a list of individual lines and paragraphs. The English original will be on one side, with the option to “edit” on the other. Pressing “edit” will open an edit window where you can work.

The User Guide is another important document. To translate this, simply go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select “translate this page”. Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. If you want to help with translations and would like to talk about how, please leave a message for me on my talk page.

Thank you, and happy editing! --PEarley (WMF) (talk) 21:44, 19 Dibatsela 2013 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor global newsletter—June 2014

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This is a one-time mailing to projects that may need this information. Future newsletters will be available as opt-in only. To receive future newsletters (about one per month), please add your page to the subscribers' list at m:VisualEditor/Newsletter. You're welcome to translate to your language.


The character formatting menu

Did you know?

The character formatting menu, or "Style text" menu lets you set bold, italic, and other text styles. "Clear formatting" removes all text styles and removes links to other pages.

Do you think that clear formatting should remove links? Are there changes you would like to see for this menu? Share your opinion at MediaWiki.org.

The user guide has information about how to use VisualEditor.

The VisualEditor team is mostly working to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

  • They have moved the "Keyboard shortcuts" link out of the "Page options" menu, into the "Help" menu. Within dialog boxes, buttons are now more accessible (via the Tab key) from the keyboard.
  • You can now see the target of the link when you click on it, without having to open the inspector.
  • The team also expanded TemplateData: You can now add a parameter type  "date" for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format, and  "boolean" for values which are true or false. Also, templates that redirect to other templates (like {{citeweb}}{{cite web}}) now get the TemplateData of their target (bug 50964). You can test TemplateData by editing mw:Template:Sandbox/doc.
  • Category: and File: pages now display their contents correctly after saving an edit (bug 65349, bug 64239)
  • They have also improved reference editing: You should no longer be able to add empty citations with VisualEditor (bug 64715), as with references. When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to replace it with another reference instead. 
  • It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor. Remember that inline images cannot display captions, so existing captions get removed. Many other bugs related to images were also fixed.
  • You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the "Page options" menu, rounding out the full set of page options currently planned.
  • The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler.

Looking ahead

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The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki

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Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact us if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at Meta (or at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only). Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 00:33, 26 Phupu 2014 (SAST)[reply]

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Please help translate this message in your language. Thanks :)

Hi, everybody. This is a reminder that we invite you to discuss VisualEditor's recent development and plans ahead during the next office hours with James Forrester (Product Manager):

If you are not able to attend but have a question for James, you can leave your question at mediawiki.org or on my talk page by the day before, and I will try to get a response. We plan to continue these monthly sessions as long as there is community interest, and to announce them through the VisualEditor global newsletter as well (please subscribe your talk page there to get the latest news about the software).

Most of the VisualEditor team will be at Wikimania in London in August! You'll be able to meet the developers during the Hackaton or at the following sessions:

WMF community liaisons will share a booth with community advocates at the Community Village and look forward to talking to you there. Thanks for your attention! --User:Elitre (WMF) 18:02, 31 Mosegamanye 2014 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor global newsletter—July and August 2014

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The VisualEditor team is currently working mostly to fix bugs, improve performance, reduce technical debt, and other infrastructure needs. You can find on Mediawiki.org weekly updates detailing recent work.

Screenshot of VisualEditor's link tool
Dialog boxes in VisualEditor have been re-designed to use action words instead of icons. This has increased the number of items that need to be translated. The user guide is also being updated.

The biggest visible change since the last newsletter was to the dialog boxes. The design for each dialog box and window was simplified. The most commonly needed buttons are now at the top. Based on user feedback, the buttons are now labeled with simple words (like "Cancel" or "Done") instead of potentially confusing icons (like "<" or "X"). Many of the buttons to edit links, images, and other items now also show the linked page, image name, or other useful information when you click on them.

  • Hidden HTML comments (notes visible to editors, but not to readers) can now be read, edited, inserted, and removed. A small icon (a white exclamation mark on a dot) marks the location of each comments. You can click on the icon to see the comment.
  • You can now drag and drop text and templates as well as images. A new placement line makes it much easier to see where you are dropping the item. Images can no longer be dropped into the middle of paragraphs.
  • All references and footnotes (<ref> tags) are now made through the "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" menu, including the "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-reference-tooltip⧽" (manual formatting) footnotes and the ability to re-use an existing citation, both of which were previously accessible only through the "Insert" menu. The "⧼visualeditor-dialogbutton-referencelist-tooltip⧽" is still added via the "Insert" menu.
  • When you add an image or other media file, you are now prompted to add an image caption immediately. You can also replace an image whilst keeping the original caption and other settings.
  • All tablet users visiting the mobile web version of Wikipedias will be able to opt-in to a version of VisualEditor from 14 August. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu.
  • The link tool has a new "Open" button that will open a linked page in another tab so you can make sure a link is the right one.
  • The "Cancel" button in the toolbar has been removed based on user testing. To cancel any edit, you can leave the page by clicking the Read tab, the back button in your browser, or closing the browser window without saving your changes.

Looking ahead

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The team posts details about planned work on the VisualEditor roadmap. The VisualEditor team plans to add auto-fill features for citations soon. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for adding rows and columns to tables. Work to support Internet Explorer is ongoing.

Feedback opportunities

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The Editing team will be making two presentations this weekend at Wikimania in London. The first is with product manager James Forrester and developer Trevor Parscal on Saturday at 16:30. The second is with developers Roan Kattouw and Trevor Parscal on Sunday at 12:30. There is a VisualEditor Translation Sprint going on during Wikimania; whether you're in London or not, any contributions are welcome!

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at the VisualEditor feedback page or by joining the office hours discussion on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 09:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East and Asia) or on Thursday, 18 September 2014 at 16:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas; evening for Europe).

If you'd like to get this newsletter on your own page (about once a month), please subscribe at w:en:Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Newsletter for English Wikipedia only or at Meta for any project. Thank you! --Elitre (WMF), 16:40, 9 Phato 2014 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor News #8—2014

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11:49, 13 Diphalane 2014 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #9—2014

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01:29, 15 Dibatsela 2014 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #10—2014

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20:59, 26 Manthole 2014 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #1—2015

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20:30, 5 Dibokwane 2015 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #2—2015

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21:48, 10 Moranang 2015 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #3—2015

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12:44, 13 Phupu 2015 (SAST)

VisualEditor News #4—2015

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Elitre (WMF), 00:28, 15 Phato 2015 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Elitre (WMF), 20:17, 30 Diphalane 2015 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor News #6—2015

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Elitre (WMF), 02:06, 25 Manthole 2015 (SAST)[reply]

VisualEditor News #1—2016

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Elitre (WMF), 22:22, 26 Dibokwane 2016 (SAST)[reply]

Editing News #2—2016

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m:User:Elitre (WMF), 19:20, 3 Mosegamanye 2016 (SAST)[reply]

Editing News #3—2016

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19:49, 15 Diphalane 2016 (SAST)

Editing News #1—2017

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20:05, 12 Mopitlo 2017 (SAST)

Editing News #1—2018

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22:56, 2 Hlakola 2018 (SAST)

Editing News #2—2018

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16:17, 2 Dibatsela 2018 (SAST)

Editing News #1—July 2019

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20:32, 23 Mosegamanye 2019 (SAST)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

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13:12, 29 Diphalane 2019 (SAST)

Editing news 2020 #1 – Discussion tools

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21:25, 8 Moranang 2020 (SAST)

Editing news 2020 #2

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22:33, 17 Phupu 2020 (SAST)

Editing news 2020 #3

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14:55, 9 Mosegamanye 2020 (SAST)

Sepedi

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Poledisano Chezzy K (talk) 07:33, 14 Diphalane 2020 (SAST)[reply]

Translation of "Free Encyclopedia"

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Hi!

The current logo of Wikipedia in your language says "Ensaeklopidia ya mahala". Is this a good translation of "The Free Encyclopedia"?

The word "Free" is supposed to be in the sense of "liberated", "not constrained", "unfettered". More like "free country" or "free people", and not like "given without paying money".

In the Oxford English - Northern Sotho Dictionary I can find these words as translations of free: lokologile, ntle le tefo, sesolo, go se be. Looking at the examples, the most appropriate word for me appears to be "lokologile".

I cannot find the word "mahala" in this dictionary at all.

What do you think? Given this information, do you still think that "Ensaeklopidia ya mahala" is a good translation for "The Free Encyclopedia", or should it perhaps be changed with the word "lokologile", or some other Northern Sotho word?

Thanks!

Tagging hopefully relevant people: User:Mohau, User:Aliwal2012, User:Thuvack. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:13, 11 Manthole 2020 (SAST)[reply]

Hello Amir! I took note of your question above, but don't have an answer for you at the moment, sorry. You are correct in your argument about what "Free Encyclopedia" should mean. Regards, Aliwal2012 (talk) 10:30, 11 Manthole 2020 (SAST)[reply]

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

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Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:18, 16 Phupu 2021 (SAST)[reply]

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Editing news 2021 #2

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16:14, 24 Phupu 2021 (SAST)

Fatima Meer

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Fatima Meer o belegwe ka la di 12 Phato 1928 gola Durban nageng ya Kwa Zulu Natal .A hlokofala ngwageng wa 2010 hlakola kadi 12 .Fatima ebe ele mongwadi wa di puku wa go tuma kudu nageng ya South Africa.

Obe a tumile bakeng sa go ngwala ka tša thuto ammogo le tshedimošo ya tša golwela tokologo ya Afrika Borwa ka bophara. Ebe ele yo mongwe wa bao ba bego ba le kgahlanong le kgatelelo ya tokologo ya batho baso yes be bego e atile pele kudu ke batho bašweu.

Fatima Meer o ile a ithuta gota pele oa morago ga go fetša marematlou unibesithing ya Wits,university of johannesburg ammogo le University of Kwa Zulu Natal .

Fatima Meer ebe ele omongwe wa ba thomi ba Jubilee South Africa ,Bathomi mmogo ba Tshepetšo ya mokgahlo wa Jubille 200 movement, Yeo e bego e eme pele bakeng sa go lweša phumolo ya melatonin ya dikoloto tša Dinara tšeo di saitekago ka tša boikemelo. Fatima Meer ke moabi wa dipoelo tše botse kudu gotšwa go ba mmušo le ba lefapha la ditokelo tša botho le batho.Moo a ilego a thopa sefoka aba a lebogwa ka di Mpho tša mangwalo Onase.

Fatima Meer ebe ele profesa ka mangwalo a thuto , Ebe ele yo mongwe wa bagwera ba Morena Mandela bao ba bego balwela tokologo ya ditokelo tša batho baso ebile ale gare alwela tikologo ka go lweša kgatelelo ya ditokelo .

Fatima oile a tlogela lefase la kakeko ka morago ga bolwetši bjo bo kopana bja kgatelelo ya marapo (stroke) ka morago ga beke tše pedi . Otlogetše bana ba gagwe elego  Rashid Meer, Shehnaz Meer, Shamin Meer.

Mongwadi Mmamoloko Engelinah Buthane. Ms C4H10 (talk) 17:22, 16 Dibatsela 2021 (SAST)[reply]

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) 20:55, 2 Mopitlo 2022 (SAST)[reply]

Deployment of FLORES Machine Translation to Northern Sotho Wikipedia

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Hello Friends!

Apologies as this message is not in your native language Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team plans to introduce a machine translation (MT) support for the Content Translation in Northern Sotho Wikipedia called FLORES. This means that you can choose to use FLORES machine translation when translating Wikipedia articles to Northern Sotho using the Content Translation tool.

The FLORES Machine Translation is provided by an AI research team at Meta through a free for use API key that allows the Content Translation to access the service on the FLORES server for an evaluation trial period. This MT will be set as default in your Wikipedia, but you can choose not to use it by selecting "Start with empty paragraph" from the "Initial Translation" dropdown menu.

The Wikimedia Foundation has worked out an agreement that allows the use of FLORES without compromising Wikipedia’s policies about attribution of rights, your privacy as a user, and brand representation. You can find more information about the FLORES Machine translation on this page.

Please note that the use of the FLORES MT is not compulsory. However, we would want your community to:

  • use it once it is deployed to improve the quality of the Machine Translation service
  • provide feedback about our plans, its quality once deployed and ask any questions you might have about this addition.

We trust that introducing this MT is a good support to the Content Translations tool towards having better quality articles in Northern Sotho Wikipedia.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 01:35, 1 Phupu 2022 (SAST)[reply]

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

  1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
  2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Screenshot showing the talk page design changes that are currently available as beta features at all Wikimedia wikis. These features include information about the number of people and comments within each discussion.
Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for Discussion tools.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "Lokela sererwa" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for Discussion tools on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with Discussion tools. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "Publish changes". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

Whatamidoing (WMF) (bolela) 01:24, 23 Dibokwane 2023 (SAST)[reply]