Zulu, Afrikaans contests are permitted in D74!
Exciting news!
District 74 now has permission to run Speech Contests in more than one language!
This means, that District 74 will be running the International Speech Contest in Zulu as well as English at Maxicon in 2012.
This also opens the door to run the Humorous Contest at Minicon in Afrikaans and English in Cape Town in September.
It also means we can run the International Speech Contest in international regional languages: Botswana and South Africa for seTswana; Swaziland and South Africa for Swazi; Zambia, Lesotho and South Africa for seSotho and Lozi (a Sotho derivative spoken in southern Zambia); as well as siNdebele for Zimbabwe and South Africa.
District 74 will still be running only four contests per year. The difference is that we will be running them in more than one language.
Western Europe already runs contests in German, French, Dutch and English and will be running a contest in Polish, German and English at their Maxicon in May.
Other districts run district-wide speech contests in Hindi and English.
With this development, District 74 puts the “international” back into Toastmasters “International.”
FANTASTIC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This will arguably open more doors for toastmasters, can’t wait to see the our vernacular languages on stage..
I pledge to complete a Setswana CC in this Toastmasters year. I challenge more toastmasters to do the same.
Just wondering how we are going to get past the rule in the contest handbook that says… “The International Speech Contest, which must be conducted in English only, follows all rules outlined in the General Rules section of this rulebook. In addition, the following additions and exceptions apply.”
Looks very clear to me.