This study is an analysis of the nature of possession in siSwati from a socio-cultural perspective. The study seeks to uncover how possession is expressed in siSwati and also the socio-cultural traits of the Swazi people ...
The study adopts a theory of Descriptive Translation Studies to undertake a comparative analysis of stylistic devices in Shakespeare’s two plays, Julius Caesar and Macbeth and their Xitsonga translations. It contextualises ...
This study examines contemporary Sesotho proverbs with an attempt at establishing
whether they perform a significant role in society. The research highlighted the fact that
they have a role to play in the 21st century. ...
This thesis is an exegesis of the portrayal of deviance in selected post-independence Shona fictional works. The analysis is done within the context of moralisation in Shona literature. The forms of deviant behaviour ...
Dames, Gordon E(The Ethical Leadership Project, 2009-04-20)
The main objective of the workshop was to apply the outcomes of the Ethical Leadership Projects’ Conference in and through Arts, Sport and Culture to the lived experiences of a local community. The workshop proceedings ...
This study analyses the different social variables that conditioned the naming of schools during the colonial period in Zimbabwe (1890-1979). The study collects and analyses the names given to schools in Salisbury (including ...
This study falls under the broad area of child language acquisition with specific focus on Shona morphosyntax. The understanding that knowledge of the nature of child language contributes to the sustainability of language ...
In theory, the South African government advocates additive bilingual education over subtractive bilingual education. However, this study shows that subtractive bilingual education supersedes additive bilingual education ...
The study sought to explore possibilities of harmonising Shona-Nyai cross-border varieties in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Emerging from the responses were problems of attitudes, ignorance of what the harmonisation project ...
The research examines the interface of history and fiction. It predominantly focuses on historical fiction on the Zimbabwean liberation war written in Shona, Ndebele and English and published after the attainment of political ...
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 ...
This study discusses the African perspective of the role of language in explaining development issues through the medium of drama and theatre in Zimbabwe. The problem of the study is centred on the idea that development ...
Various researches across the world have established that graffiti writing is a universal social practice. The actual occurrence or manifestation of graffiti is however far from being universal cross-culturally. It varies ...
The new South Africa is encouraging multilingualism. The Department of Education has given a mandate to promote African languages. The Department of Higher Education came up with higher education language policy in 2002. ...
This study examines the mediation of multilingualism, localism and the nation in the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, henceforth, ZBC as the local content and multilingual broadcasting policies subsumed in the Broadcasting ...
Today, unlike yesterday we talk about Moral Regeneration amongst the Vhavenḓa youth of today and throughout the whole world. Strategies of combating this monster that is snatching our youth are recommended in this study. ...
In hierdie studie word die fonologie en die morfologie van Lobedu, 'n dialek van die
Noordoostelike dialekbundel van Noord-Sotho, beskryf. Historiese gegewens, soos in
hoofstuk 1 weergegee, toon aan dat die Balobedu ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the strategies used to transfer aspects of culture in the
translation of an English novel into Zulu. For this purpose, C.L. S. Nyembezi' s Zulu translation,
Lafa Elihle Kakhulu ...
This study is a comparison of female characters portrayed by different authors in selected
Venda novels.
Chapter One comprises the aim of the study, approach, life history of authors, comments on
their work, a short ...
Mathenjwa, L. F. (Langalibalele Felix), 1962-(1999-11)
This study gives the Zulu's views and ideas about celestial
bodies and associated natural phenomena and how they
illustrate features in both the oral and written literature.
It sketches various
focussing mainly on
The ...