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Hip Hop Pantsula making Setswana fashionable: impact on Setswana orthography South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kgomotso Mothokhumo Ambitious Theledi
The aim of this article is to investigate how South African hip-hop lyrics break language rules and promote South African indigenous languages. The article focuses on youth participation in linguis...
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Revisiting isiZulu noun classes: a lexicalist approach South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Nhlanhla Mathonsi, Ernestina Maleshoane Rapeane-Mathonsi
This article seeks to question the lexical integrity (lexicality) of isiZulu noun classes. A noun is a lexical category, hence it would be expected that a noun classifier be a lexical or derivation...
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Political euphemisms in Tshivenḓa: a sociopragmatic analysis South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mmbulaheni Lawrence Mudau
This article explores various political euphemisms in Tshivenḓa that politicians deploy in daily social interactions. Politicians use political euphemisms strategically to control the flow of infor...
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Identifying and naming number digits in Setswana South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Naledi N Kgolo-Lotshwao, Thapelo J Otlogetswe
This study experimentally tested how well Setswana native speakers know numbers in their language, and whether they can articulate numbers of varying complexities in Setswana. To this end, we prese...
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The emergence of praise-poetry recitation in the Ịjọ community South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Imomotimi Armstrong
This article focuses on the emergence of praise-poetry recitation among the Ịjọ of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. It argues that until the contemporary period, the Ịjọ had no such poetic form. The a...
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An investigation of the language attitudes, identity and power perspectives of isiZulu home-language-speaking students towards isiZulu and other Black South African languages South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Mashadi Masha-Sambo, Tilla Olifant, Mzwamadoda Phillip Cekiso, Thabo Ditsele
IsiZulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, and most of its home language (HL) speakers reside in KwaZulu-Natal. Outside this province, there are significant isiZulu HL speakers who...
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Understanding character naming in Khaketla’s Mosali a Nkhola: a literary onomastic analysis South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Sol Chaphole, Madira Thetso
This article aims to understand Khaketla’s intent in naming the characters in Mosali a Nkhola. As one of its key features, a novel has characters whose main purpose is to carry readers through the ...
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Responding to xenophobic violence in South Africa: identity negotiation and language practices of Nigerian immigrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Chimaobi Onwukwe
This study reflects on language use and identity navigation in the context of xenophobia. It specifically examines language practices by Nigerian Igbo immigrants as they relate to negotiating socia...
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The adoption and proliferation of clicks in Bantu languages: the role of hlonipha revisited South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hilde Gunnink
While the use of clicks in certain Southern Bantu languages is recognisable as the result of contact with speakers of Khoisan languages, the occurrence of clicks in inherited Bantu lexemes defies a...
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Historical evolution of the -ile suffix and language genetic relationship in the Nyasa-Tanganyika Corridor South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Nichodamus Robinson
This article examines the extent to which the changing morphological and phonological properties of the -ile suffix illuminates change in the genetic language relationships among four languages in ...
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The role of narrative stories in interpreting male dominance: Ndilunge ngoku ndingumabuy’ ekwendeni! (I’m better off as a divorcée!) South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sebolelo Mokapela, Russell Kaschula
This article focuses on how some women in a patriarchal and culture-bound community, after enduring different forms of abuse, decide to leave their husbands. This phenomenon is also reflected in is...
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The potential of artificial intelligence (AI) for decolonising education in South Africa through the development of indigenous languages South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Burgert Senekal, Susan Brokensha
Despite having 12 officially recognised languages (with the addition of South African Sign Language on 3 May 2023), South Africa’s education system is becoming increasingly monolingual. The current...
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The challenges of translation in multilingual South Africa with specific reference to selected public space signage in the Western Cape province South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sebolelo Mokapela
This article seeks to raise awareness of the impact – positive and negative – of practices that are perceived to be contributing towards the realisation of multilingualism in South Africa. The 1996...
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The use of proverbs and metaphors in isiXhosa football reporting South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Enongene Mirabeau Sone, Nangamso Gubelana, Neliswa Nkosiyane
This article explores the different uses of colourful and military language in the commentaries of isiXhosa football reporters, and highlights an interesting relationship between football and war i...
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The syntax and morphosyntax of questions in Shinyiha South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Devet Goodness
This article examines the syntax and morphosyntax of questions in the Shinyiha language. It surveys the different sentence structures and strategies Shinyiha speakers use in forming questions. It p...
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The effect of phonetic harmony in causative morphemes in Kiswahili South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hossam Mohamed Ramadan
This article focuses on the causative morpheme in Kiswahili. It notes that the causative morpheme has many allomorphs. The study explains the relationship between the verb root and the causative fo...
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Language ideologies in the promotion of English in Uganda’s educational system: a historical overview from the 1890s to 2007 South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Medadi E Ssentanda, Ruth S Wenske
This article is a historical investigation of language-in-education policy in Uganda. It compares educational reports from the 1890s to the 2000s with research from cultural history to trace how la...
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Nyalano ya matseno le bokhutlo jwa khutshwe Magana go utlwa jaaka dithapo tsa leselo South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Richard Lepheti Moloele
Khutshwe ke mofutakwalwa o o seng bonolo go kwalwa. Bakwalakhutshwe ba le bantsi ba a atlafa fa ba leka go o kwala. Ditlhangwa tse dintsi tsa dikhutshwe di kwadilwe ka mokgwa o o sa useng pelo. Bot...
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A descriptive analysis of Xitsonga contemporary music South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Nyikelani Davis Mabasa
Indigenous music and dance can help one to vividly fathom the behaviour, values and morals of particular cultural groups, who perform its music and dance for various reasons. The indigenous music a...
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The impact of non-standard varieties of isiZulu language learning on students’ performance at a university of technology in Gauteng South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Zempilo S Gumede, Yanga LP Majola, Nontobeko T Mbatha
The impact of non-standard varieties of isiZulu language learning on students’ performance at a university of technology (UoT) in Gauteng incorporates the investigation of the positive and negative...
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Incazelo nomlando oqukethwe emagameni aqanjwe abesifazane abashade ngaphambi konyaka we-1990 esigodini sakaGcaliphiwe eMaphephetheni South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Sabelo Zamani Msomi, Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa
Leli phepha lihlola ukuqanjwa kwamagama abantu besifazane abashadile ngenhloso yokuthola umlando nencazelo. Ezikhathini eziphambili bekuwumkhuba ojwayelekile ukuthi umuntu wesifazane uma ezogana af...
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The names of the supreme being in Bemba: some critical morphological insights South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Hambaba Jimaima, Susan Matukuto, Gabriel Simungala
In this article, we use lexical morphology to account for names of the supreme being in Bemba, a Bantu language spoken in Zambia as rendered by various translators in the Christian holy book, the B...
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Enhancing the vocabulary inventory of Xitsonga in the academic domain by importing from initiation schools and traditional health practice South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Mafemani Joseph Baloyi
The article aims to discover how university students and their lecturers can contribute to the valuing of Xitsonga as one of the South African indigenous languages in the academic domain. It focuse...
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Proverbs based on the people domain in David Mkhize’s Ngavele ngasho South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Zilibele Mtumane, Rachel Tengetile Antones-Dlamini
The article seeks to provide a critical analysis of selected proverbs based on the people domain in the isiZulu drama, Ngavele ngasho (‘I told you so’), by David Mkhize. The proverbs are sampled pu...
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Malawian and Nigerian migrants’ perceptions of the isiZulu interlocutors’ values and the effects on their willingness to acquire isiZulu South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Shoaib Mzoma
This article explores Malawian and Nigerian migrants’ perceptions of their isiZulu interlocutors’ values in Johannesburg. The aim was to determine the effects of such perceptions on the migrants’ w...
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Exposing impropriety and the degeneration of ubuntu through satire in selected isiZulu poems South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Isaac Mndawe
This article examines the skill employed by poets in creating satirical isiZulu poems and the extent to which these satirical elements have been used in exposing indecent and immoral acts that reve...
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The impact of poor reading skills on Grade 12 isiXhosa Home Language exam results South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Pumla Cutalele-Maqhude
IsiXhosa is one of the 11 official languages offered as a subject in the South African school curriculum at Home Language (HL) level. The examination of this subject in grade 12 (the school-exit ye...
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Ukushayisana kwesiko nemfundo enovelini ethi lmpi yabomdabu isethunjini South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Melusi Msomi
Leli phepha lihlaziya ukushayisana phakathi kwesiko nemfundo okwenzeka enovelini ethi: lmpi yabomdabu isethunjini ebhalwe ngu JC Buthelezi ngowezi-2015. Kule noveli kubonakala sengathi kukhona ukun...
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Advanced tongue root effect in Igbo affixation: perspectives from Èwùlù South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Don Chukwuemeka Utulu
Èwùlù (Igboid: West Benue–Congo, southern Nigeria) is a type 2IU dialect with a rather pervasive advanced tongue root (ATR) effect in its productive affixation morphology. Consequently, all vowels ...
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Ubugqirha: healing beyond the Western gaze South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zethu Cakata
This article explores what African languages teach us about the concept of healing using the Xhosa language (isiXhosa) of South Africa as a model. From an African perspective, the names used to lab...
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Expressions from Zulu proverbs on the uniqueness of motherhood in mitigating the adverse effects of orphanhood South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Mfundo Mandla Masuku, Nomusa M Mlondo, Tholakele Henrietta Chiliza
Proverbs are labelled as the expression of messages embedded in a language. This article analyses a selected proverb which reflects on motherhood and orphanhood and which is used to show the value ...
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COVID-19 crisis communication in Sepedi: the quality of translation by the Limpopo Department of Health South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Napjadi Letsoalo, Tshepho Justice Kgasago
There is a paucity of literature on the importance of translating health risk messages into South Africa’s indigenous languages as a tool for crisis prevention and management. This article focuses ...
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The categorisation of questions in the assessment of language subjects for multilingual learners in South African primary schools South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Nonhlanhla Ntuli, Ramona Kunene Nicolas
This study examines the structure and cognitive demands of questions found in Grade 5 learners’ English first additional language (FAL) and isiZulu home language (HL) subject workbooks. Using docum...
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Personal names and naming theoretical concepts in selected texts of Yvonne Vera and Petina Gappah South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Tendai Mangena
This article analyses the ways in which two internationally renowned Zimbabwean women writers, Yvonne Vera and Petina Gappah, show a fascination with names in their novels, and in the process call ...
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Lexical change: a case of the Hehe language South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Ernest Mapunda, Chrispina Alphonce
The article reports the results on the lexical change in Hehe, grounded in substratum theory. This exploration focused on the extent of lexical change. The qualitative data were collected in Kilolo...
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Gender stereotyping in Indlela yababi and Kuxolelwa abanjani?: a corpus linguistics approach South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Lungile Mncwango, Jacomien van Niekerk, Elsabé Taljard
In this article, we use corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine gender stereotyping in three isiZulu novels, namely Indlela yababi (‘The path of the wicked’) by RRR Dhlomo, In...
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Future-time markers in expressing English future time by Sesotho L1 speakers South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 'Matšitso Eugenia Morato-Maleke, Francina Liako Moloi
The expression of future time in the English language seems to lack uniformity. The lack of consistency is influenced by speakers’ intentions, so these various ways of marking future time in Englis...
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Morphophonological realisation on inflected verbal roots with initial vowel sounds in Sepedi South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Napjadi Letsoalo
In instances where verbs that start with vowel sounds and a vowel prefix is attached, the hiatus is repaired through resyllabification, i.e. the manifestation of an initial underlying sound called ...
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In India and East Africa/E-Indiya nase East Africa: a travelogue in isiXhosa and English South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Lukhanyo Elvis Makhenyane
Published in South African Journal of African Languages (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Semantic features in English print advertisements: a Xitsonga translation perspective South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Mafemani Joseph Baloyi
Authors’ writing styles and diction applied in advertisements give the language a specialised aspect in translation. The translation of advertisements from English into Xitsonga is still undervalued, based on the observation that Xitsonga newspapers prefer to advertise in English. This article explores a corpus of two print advertisements and employs a descriptive qualitative design by document analysis
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Power relations in Bible translation: a sociolinguistic analysis of selected English and Kinyarwanda passages from the book of Genesis South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Vedaste Ndizera, Telesphore Ngarambe, Evariste Ntakirutimana
This article applies sociolinguistic and descriptive translation studies approaches to identify and analyse aspects of power dynamics embedded in the English and Kinyarwanda versions of the book of Genesis in the Christian Bible. The major aspects described include imperative/compulsion, warnings/prohibitions, curses/punishments, supremacy, authority/fear, solidarity/cooperation, deference and politeness
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Syntactic differences between adjectives and relative words in Setswana and isiZulu South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Kgomotso Ambitious Theledi
The study investigates the syntactic differences between adjectives and relative words in Setswana and isiZulu. Setswana and isiZulu are from the same Bantu language family and both share certain general characteristics such as agglutinative morphology, but they differ in orthography, i.e. conjunctive and disjunctive orthography. The aim of the article is to show the differences between the adjective
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Water as a metaphorical marker in Setswana and Afrikaans poetry South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Daniel Sekepe Matjila
The finding of this article is that water in poetry serves specifically as a marker of metaphorical information in the sense that it accentuates, continues and establishes relationships between elements of metaphorical constructions. To Raditladi and the Batswana in general, rain is compared to cattle, which provide and sustain life for the people. To Marais and the Afrikaner tradition in general,
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Language function and literary translation: the realisation of transculturation in the translation of Sans Famille from French to Igbo South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Chimmuanya Pearl Ngele
Translation as an exercise was born out of the need to comprehend texts written in foreign languages. There are two sides to this comprehension; the text and the reader of the translated version. Every literary text has its target audience; in the same manner, the translated versions have their target audiences. In translating, one tries to create a text that would be comprehensible to the target audience;
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The literary production of KPD Maphalla: an introduction South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Nogwaja S Zulu, (Guest Editors) Elias N Malete
Published in South African Journal of African Languages (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2023)
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The application of appraisal theory in Maphalla’s poem: ‘Ditema’ South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Mathai Monyakane, Elias Nyefolo Malete
Evaluative language includes any linguistic expressions (written or spoken) that may be perceived as conveying stances or attitudes (feelings and views) towards entities and people in the real world. It also utilises the material presented and the parties involved in the communicative exchange. The poetic text is that which utilizes numerous figures of style to provide emotions and feelings while respecting
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The literary oeuvre of KPD Maphalla: a thematic analysis South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Nogwaja S Zulu
KPD Maphalla won several accolades for his literary achievements and was prolific in all literary genres, but his forté was poetry. This article investigates the prominent themes of his thirteen novels by employing biographical literary criticism as the theoretical framework, which connects the content of texts, or parts thereof, to the author’s life. The article concludes that biographical literary
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The significance of the naming technique in KPD Maphalla’s novel, Kabelwamanong South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Pule Phindane
This article is a conceptual study of onomastics in KPD Maphalla’s novel, Kabelwamanong, focusing on the naming of characters and places. The study intends to determine the extent to which naming is utilised as a technique to show how the author presents his characters and how they contribute towards the development of themes in this text. Maphalla’s choice and use of names is deliberate, and the technique
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Naming technique in Maphalla’s drama Tahleho South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Rethabile Possa-Mogoera
The main objective of this article is to investigate the naming technique in Maphalla’s drama Tahleho. Naming is a very important tool used in various African cultures to convey certain messages, either to an individual, family members, or a community. The naming of various objects is linked with the socio-political factors of countries where anthroponyms and toponyms are found. Naming in literary
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KPD Maphalla’s autobiographical poetry: narrating oneself in verse South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Sol Chaphole
Self-writing is a literary site that seeks to interrogate issues of subjectivity, experience and laying oneself bare. Its proponents immerse themselves in a particular spatial and temporal frame such as the colonial times, the apartheid era and the democratic moment. There are autobiographical writings that celebrate individual consciousness, style and experience during the apartheid era in South Africa
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A critical discourse analysis of Maphalla’s selected poems: South Africa’s pre-democratic election messages South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Mantoa Motinyane
The years 1990 to 1994 were the most critical years in the lives of all South Africans. For writers, this period presented an opportunity for expressions that have long been suppressed due to the censoring of writers in South Africa. Poetry was one of the ways in which a writer was able to reveal and express his or her thoughts about what they see, hear and the general events that are related to their
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Reflections on KPD Maphalla’s poetry: political, spiritual and social perspectives South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Johannes Seema
This article explores the poetry of KPD Maphalla as a distinguished creative writer who left his footprint on African literature, Basotho literature in particular. His creative writings has brought significant changes in the lives of Africans who found hope in poetry. His creative writing reflects an African worldview because his poetry is like a mirror that Africans can hold up to look at themselves
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Uhlalutyo bunzululwazi ngokomxholo ochongiweyo kwingqokelela yesihobe sikaWelile Shasha ethi Umsila Wembulu South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Mlamli Diko
Olu phando lusebenzisa uphando ntyilazwi, lujolise ekugrombonceni isihobe sikaWelile Shasha kwingqokelela yakhe ethi Umsila Wembulu. Apha kweli phepha, eyona nkalo umphandi ajonge kuyo kukuchonga umbongo omnye ogxile kumxholo ongempilo, ze loo mxholo usetyenziswe ukusunduza nokugqwesisa iingxoxo bunzululwazi kuncwadi lwesiXhosa ezingena ncakasana nakwixesha langoku lentsholongwane yeCOVID-19. Isizathu
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Royal identities and social relations in MER Mathivha’s drama Mabalanganye: a critical language awareness perspective of knowledge regeneration South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Thomas Maitakhole Sengani
There is an unfair view that writers in African languages are artists who mostly focus on aspects of literary genres such as theme, plot, characterisation, conflict, setting, time, language and style. From a thematic point of view, Mathivha’s (1974) drama Mabalanganye is often regarded as one that depicts the Tshivenḓa-speaking community of yesteryear, when African royal leadership were a law unto
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Negotiating marital challenges through classic wedding songs: a case of the Ndebele in Zimbabwe South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Lickel Ndebele
In African cultures, the Ndebele included, a strong society is one that is made up of healthy and robust family relationships, with the family institution serving as a foundation for the survival and continuity of society. However, the frequency of divorce nowadays suggests that the foundations of marriages are not as strong as they ought to be. Thus, this article seeks to examine how traditional Ndebele
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Ukuhlaziywa kwezincazelo nomlayezo owethulwa emagameni emiziyenkosi uMzilikazi South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Dumisani Ephraim Khumalo, Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
Amagama emizi abamba iqhaza elibalulekile ekuqinisekiseni ukugcinwa komlando kanye nokufundisa izizukulwane ngolwazi, umlando kanye nendlela yokuphila eyabe ilandelwa yizizukulwane ezandulele esizweni. Ukuqinisekiswa kokuhunyushwa ngendlela komlayezo oqukethwe emagameni emizi kubamba iqhaza elibalulekile ekuqikeleleni ukuthi umlando wesizwe udluliselwa ezizukulwaneni ngendlela efanele nelindelekile
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A critical analysis of Mthunzikazi Mbungwana’s protest in ‘Ababuyanga’ South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Lukhanyo E Makhenyane
Despite the substantial research on poetry produced by female Xhosa poets on sociopolitical issues, there is little commentary on their poetry on sociocultural issues in the post-apartheid era. As a result, their voice and role in sociocultural issues is misunderstood. Using textual analysis, this article critically analyses Mbungwana’s sociocultural protest in her poem ‘Ababuyanga’. The poem stems
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Ukuqanjwa kwezikole zaseMaqadini NaseMaphephetheni ngamakhosingenhloso yokulondoloza umlando South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Melusi Ernest Msomi, Zamani Msomi
Amagama ayinto esemqoka kakhulu. Ayikho into engenalo igama emhlabeni. Amagama aveza okuningi mayelana nomqambi kanye nalowo oqanjwayo. Aqukethe izincazelo eziningi, amanye aqukethe umlando wokuzalwa kwalowo oqanjwe igama kanti amanye aqukethe imizwa yabaqambi begama. Leli phepha licwaninga ukuqanjwa kwamagama ezikole zaseMaqadini naseMaphephetheni ngamagama amakhosi akhona ngenhloso yokulondoloza
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Mofokeng’s dramatic play, Senkatana, epitomises intertextuality South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Johannes Seema
SM Mofokeng’s dramatic text Senkatana (1982) is a classic Sesotho tragedy. The drama has been adapted from the well-known Basotho folktale Moshanyana wa Senkatana. There are also certain authors that inspired Mofokeng to create Senkatana. Intertextuality has played an important role in creating Mofokeng’s masterpiece. The protagonist is Senkatana, whose fall is caused by his own good intentions. Audiences
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Kagego ya padi ya Phitlhelelo kwa setlhoeng ya ga J Malao South African Journal of African Languages Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Richard Lepheti Moloele
Padi le kgankhutshwedi batlile go bopega ka mokgwa o o tshwanang. Kgankhutshwe e ngangegile thata go gaisa padi. Seno se dirwa ke gore mopadi o na le nako ya go tlhalosa ditiragalo ka tsenelelo, mme ga a gapelediwe ke sepe go ngotla tiriso ya mafoko, mme mokwadi wa kgankhutshwe ena, o eta a nna bofitlha. Patlisiso e, e leba ka moo padi Phitlhelelo kwa Setlhoeng e agilweng le ka moo e tsamaelanang le