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South Africa, on the continent's southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east. Its neighbors are Namibia in the northwest, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the north, and Mozambique and Swaziland in the northeast. The kingdom of Lesoth...
Finally, it compares the quality of the pupils' answers in Xhosa and English. Tentative recommendations are made about the language implications of history teaching which emerge from the results of the research.Mandisa Poswa
icon of struggle Article 3/5 Miriam Makeba: ‘Pata Pata’, from ‘insignificant’ ditty to anti-apartheid anthem 10 years after it was originally created, the Xhosa-language song became an international hit and put South African singer Miriam Makeba on the map as... 'bloodthirsty masters'...
Intriguingly, the language of the Hadzabe of eastern Africa, although not closely related to any other language, shares click consonants and accompaniments with languages of Khwe and San. Results: We present original Y chromosome and mtDNA variation of Hadzabe and other ethnic groups of Tanzania ...
All the national languages, with the exception of the official language, English, are Bantu, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Shona and Sindebele are the most widely spoken, and students are required to take at least one of those languages. The four main dialects of Shona—Zezu...
Around 1.8 million people lived there in the late 1980s, and it was thought that Tswana people comprised 70% of that population. Other Sotho people, Xhosa, Zulu, and Shangaan, comprised the remaining 25%. In other parts of South Africa, there were another 1.5 million Tswana. ...
Sesotho was one of the first African languages to develop a written form and it has an extensive literature. English is the second official language, dating back to 1868 when Lesotho was placed under the British for protection against South African aggression. Zulu and Xhosa are spoken by a ...
Mandela attended religious services every Sunday, Christianity became an important part of his life. In addition, he went to a Methodist mission near the palace where he studied the English language and Xhosa as well as history and geography, from those years, began his love for African history...
Ninety percent of the population is said to speak Setswana. The term Setswana refers both to Tswana language, and to Tswana practices/culture, and there has been increasing resistance Botswana to the dominance of Setswana as national language by speakers of other languages in the country; ...