Mixed with over a dozen African languages for two centuries, spiced by imports from European colonies, South African English has its own rich, varied and weird flavour.
This devastating attack on apartheid--initially snuck through the South African censors disguised as a conventionaltsotsior gangster thriller--was made by a racially mixed team. Mogotlane is black; Schmitz is white. The acting throughout--by the believably cruel Van Heerden, the earthy Mitshali ...
In effect the South African veterans of World War 1 and World War 2 now found themselves marginalised by the government – victims of Apartheid in effect. This short Pathé Newsreel of the time explains the gravity of the decision to leave the Commonwealth and make South Africa a Republic ...
Jimmy Carter came back from Pyongyang 30 years ago looking very impressed with Kim Il Sung, and the famine was then dignified in Western media as an excess of self-reliance, as no African famine has ever been. Only when the Geneva deal fell apart did we make the prison camps a priority...
- Name meaning: A short man; also the name of a murdered South African teen activist. - Reason for ban: It might lead to bullying or ridicule. Whether the parents wanted to pay a tribute to the young anti-apartheid figure Stompie Moeketsi or just thought the name was cute, German offici...
- Name meaning: A short man; also the name of a murdered South African teen activist. - Reason for ban: It might lead to bullying or ridicule. Whether the parents wanted to pay a tribute to the young anti-apartheid figure Stompie Moeketsi or just thought the name was cute, German offici...
Other notable words: Africanized bee, erectile dysfunction, gene therapy, Kwanzaa, physician's assistant, Tourette's syndrome From 1969 to 1971, the U.S. governmentsprayed 20 million gallonsof herbicides and defoliants includingAgent Orangeover vast areas of South Vietnam and neighboring regions dur...
In this empirical article, we argue that while emergency remote teaching (ERT) may have achieved its goal of saving the academic years during the COVID-19 pandemic, it also constructed unintended pedagogical consequences that were possibly overlooked at the time of advocating for it. We also cont...