OK, Alexandra as a township around Johannesburg is very unique in that it is maybe one of the oldest and it accumulated people from all over the country so you find that all languages are spoken in Alexandra. All eleven languages are easily spoken in Alexandra because people come from many different places to here. So the churches as such do not have one single language that they use, the preachers will use in one sermon, they would use four languages, they would use six languages, it would depend on which congregation they are in or which section of the... because the churches are also divided, you find that the Lutheran church is divi... our church for example, the church that we are in now, 12th Avenue has got Tswana, Setswana speking people and Zulu speaking people, the other one has got mostly Pedi speaking, Venda, Afrikaans and English, but English gets used interchangeably very easily which is I would say the kind of language that we speak in our homes as well, we speak, we interchange our African languages with English very easily without thinking about it. 11


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