Over the past few years, the world in general has been influenced by several rapid changes and disruptions including climate change, globalisation, economic developments, the fourth industrial revolution, technological ...
Nine of South Africa's eleven official languages are African languages: Xhosa, Zulu, Venda, Tsonga, Swati, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho and Tswana. They belong to a large family of languages, comprising more ...
South Africa has 11 official languages and the 12th one was gazetted recently. It would seem that almost all these languages, except English and Afrikaans, have been approved just for ceremonial purposes as they are still ...
Historically the socio-political landscape in South Africa has been shaped by colonial rule and
segregation policies. Some ethnic groups were from the outset of colonial rule suppressed and according to the
social identity ...
Quan-Baffour, Kofi Poku; Lebeloane, LDM "Oupa"(Journal of Educational Studies, 2008)
Letsema is an important indigenous practice, in existence since time immemorial among many Africans especially the Batswana speaking people of Southern Africa.
The medieval period (approximately 800 to 1300 AD) in Western Europe is noted for its rich tradition in religious Roman Catholic iconography. Frequently the only art works to be produced in the period, or to have survived, ...
The study sought to investigate how the symbiotic relationship between amaXhosa and amaNdebele impacted on IsiXhosa language and amaXhosa culture in Mbembesi area in Zimbabwe. The study was conducted where two ethnic groups ...
This study deals with the influence of other languages on Venda. It begins by looking at the various contact situations and then analyses the adaptation of foreign linguistic forms and their impact on the Venda language. ...
This is a transdisciplinary study of how ‘popular cultures of survival’ regenerate and rehumanise township residents and communities whose social fabric and intergenerational bonds have been violently torn by endemic ...
Transformation of the higher education system has come under the spotlight recently. At the core of this debate are issues pertaining to access and throughput rates at universities. Although access has improved significantly, ...
Botha, Nico Adam(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011-12)
This study is an historical delineation of the struggle between
empire and Christianity. After presenting characteristics of
hegemony, empire and Christianity, imperialistic tendencies
and empire are described historically ...
Hendricks, Gavin P(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012-08)
This article focuses primarily on meaning and representation of the “other”. The
collective memory of primarily oral cultures about the ways in which knowledge about
them was collected, classified and then represented ...
Snyman, Gerrie (G. F.)(Old Testament Essays, 2011)
Employing a hermeneutics of vulnerability to unmask privileged po-sitions, this article intends to provide a reading from a white per-spective of The Africana Bible. Reading Israel’s Scriptures from Africa and the African ...
This thesis interrogates García Márquez’s representations of sexualities in the following selected novels: Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The ...
Lutheranism in Southern Africa was part of the missionary enterprise. The missionary enterprise
was interwoven with colonialism. It was in this context that the beginnings of the Lutheran
theological education took ...
The thesis of this study is that both Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal churches can
grow at a time when only the Pentecostal churches have grown. The stagnation that
has occurred in many ''mainline" churches.need not be ...
This thesis is focused upon the political philosophy of Niccolò
Machiavelli. It is a study of both the philosophical presuppositions
of this philosophy and its practical implementation. The aim is to
determine and ...