This morning The Chatroom on SABC 1 dealt with the issue of language purism. They had DJ Sbu Leope in the studio, who was earlier accused of speaking impure isiZulu on Ukhozi FM. Sbu's argument was that, through his show, he was trying to reach young Zulu-speaking people who needed to be guided and who looked up to people like him.

A white lady on the panel also spoke out about what she called purism, saying that the English we speak today was very different from Shakespeare's English.

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