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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. |

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