Making sense of South African Mmega Dikgang’s transition from Setswana to English

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Bright T. Molale ◽  
Phillip Mpofu
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Making Sense

scholarly journals ‘I was a Girl of my Time’: A feminist literary analysis of representations of time and gender in selected contemporary South African fiction by women

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Murray
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
South African ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Critical Scrutiny ◽  
And Gender

This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected contemporary South African texts by women writers in order to explore how they represent female characters’ engagement with conventional understandings of time and its chronological and linear progression. These engagements are represented as being particularly fraught for women characters as they find themselves constrained by various temporally located constructions of femininity even as they attempt to heed the temporally dislocated voices of gendered trauma that consistently speak through their bodies. In this article, my focus will be on Bridget Pitt’s novel, Notes from the Lost Property Department (2015), Elleke Boehmer’s The Shouting in the Dark (2015) and Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning (2016). Despite frequent references to the importance of temporality in making sense of the experiences of the female protagonists, there has been a dearth of scholarly attention to the complexities of the intersections between gender, time and trauma in contemporary South African fiction by women. While gender violence and trauma are topics that have received extensive critical scrutiny in South African literary studies, this article demonstrates that the inclusion of temporality in the analytical framework enables a richer and more nuanced reading of the experiences of the female characters in the selected texts.

scholarly journals Making sense of the disclosure of latent defects in financial statements and company acquisition contracts

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84
Author(s):  
Cornelius Killian
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
The South ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Appeal Court ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Court Judge ◽  
Latent Defects ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
A Company

This paper analyses the statement made by the South African Appeal Court Judge Holmes in the Phame v Paizes (1973) case and, using economic and unique South African legal principles, it examines the true legal nature of a contract to regulate company acquisitions.1 Two solutions are offered for financial managers in South Africa: (1) the contract to regulate company acquisitions is a forward contract and (2) the difficulty in identifying latent defects should not be grounds for reducing the price paid for a company or enterprise in the South African legal system.

scholarly journals A case-based approach to UTI imaging – making sense of the guidelines

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracy Kilborn ◽  
Halvani Moodley ◽  
Anita Brink ◽  
Peter Nourse
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Renal Damage ◽  
Vesicoureteric Reflux ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Tract Infections ◽  
African Setting ◽  
Case Based ◽  
The Ideal

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common amongst children and invariably result in imaging tests to look for correctable causes that may predispose the child to infection. The objective of imaging is to identify those children at risk of long-term renal damage. The ideal imaging algorithm is extensively debated in the literature owing to the lack of evidence-based data, evolving theories on the pathophysiology of UTI and vesicoureteric reflux (VUR). The present article provides a case-based approach to the imaging of UTIs and proposes guidelines relevant to the South African setting.

scholarly journals Making sense of the PIRLS 2006 results for South Africa

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Janks
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Literacy Learning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Home Language ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Literacy Interventions ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Reading To Learn ◽  
Basic Comprehension

Results on the PIRLS test in 2006 make it clear that South African educators need to examine the way in which they teach literacy in the Foundation phase. While the test gives a fair indication of what our children cannot do, it is less clear about what they can do. Mastery of decoding, for example, is assumed and children are tested on their ability to read lengthy texts and answer cognitively demanding questions. The test is therefore not a good indicator of whether learners can decode or not. By setting the kinds of skills demanded by PIRLS, against Freebody and Luke’s roles of the reader, this article suggests that the problem with literacy learning in our schools is that too often students do not get much beyond decoding and basic comprehension. !ey are not taught to be text ‘participants’,text ‘users’ or text ‘analysts’. Literacy interventions in schools need to prepare students to ask and answer middle and higher order questions on texts written in their home language if they are to move from learning to read to reading to learn.

scholarly journals Oral literature and the evolving Jim-goes-to-town motif: Some early Northern Sotho compared to selected post-apartheid novels written in English

Literator ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesibana Rafapa
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Black People ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Black South African ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Northern Sotho ◽  
Language Literature

The continuation of the discourses of apartheid era African language literature characterised by the makgoweng motif in post-apartheid English literature written by black people has not been studied adequately. In this study I explored ways in which characters of Northern Sotho linguistic and cultural groups represented the same consciousness in both categories of novels across time. I used the qualitative method and analysed some Northern Sotho primary texts, written before democracy in South Africa, as well as selected post-apartheid English novels written by black people. I focused on the mokgoweng motif to examine the nature of continuity in theme and outlook. I found that the novels considered pointed to a sustainable consciousness, transcending linguistic boundaries and time. The social function of such characterisation representing the formerly oppressed black people, is a revelation of their quest towards selfdefinition in a modern world. The portrayed characters significantly point to resilience among black people to appropriate modernity by making sense of the world in a manner sustaining their distinctive outlook. In this way, the Northern Sotho-speaking cultural groups display a consistent consciousness enabling them to manage properly their adaptation to an evolving modern or globalising environment across time. The implication was that a comparison of South African English literature written by black people with indigenous language literature enriched the study of black South African English literature.

scholarly journals Reconfiguring the culture of kinship: poor people's tactics during South Africa's transition from apartheid

Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (S1) ◽  
pp. S90-S116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
South African ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Working People ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Ethnographic Data

AbstractOne product of the vicissitudes of apartheid-era labour migration, of persistent constraints on urban settlement and of continuing post-apartheid oscillating migration between South Africa's cities and countryside has been extensive domestic fluidity for many South African working people. As a consequence, they have repeatedly created new social networks across the urban–rural social field. In making sense of those networks by reconfiguring their notions of kinship and clanship, they have demonstrated the significance of kinship as an identity idiom. Based on research in Cape Town's largest African township during the early 1990s period of transition from apartheid, the article shows how, through people's use of notions of clanship, they have recursively reconstructed their idiom of kinship in a context of systemic instability. This article uses ethnographic data from that time and context to argue that we need to understand kinship as a cultural resource, pragmatically used and reinvented over and over again, each time emerging anew. In doing so, the article shows that kinship is not a fixed, recordable structure and that, like so many aspects of culture, it is repeatedly reinvented and reconstituted in order to address pragmatic circumstances.

scholarly journals The importance of understanding and making sense of Zulu traditional hymns as a symbol of expressing worship: Cognitive hermeneutics and hermeneutics of hymnody theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakhiseni J. Yende
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenology ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Contemporary Gospel

Singing and understanding Zulu traditional hymns among charismatic churches and gospel groups have become a fundamental worship tool. Zulu traditional hymns are at the centre of Christian lives in South Africa. Singing Zulu traditional hymns (iCilongo Levangeli) is predominant for many South African musicians and gospel groups using modern musical styles. However, contemporary churches, musicians and gospel groups tend not to understand the authenticity of these hymns. The issue of Zulu traditional hymns in the modern gospel industry is a matter of great concern. Therefore, this article addresses and discusses the importance of understanding and making sense of Zulu traditional hymns as a symbol of expressing worship. Data were collected for a research practice using a hermeneutic phenomenology paradigm to obtain a precise understanding and the original meaning of the prominent Zulu traditional hymns. The study reveals that there are Zulu traditional hymns that were misinterpreted and misunderstood. The misinterpretation of Zulu traditional hymns is partly attributable to the ignorance of the underlying true meaning, emotions, state and purpose of the original composer.Contribution: This study recommends that contemporary gospel musicians sing Zulu traditional hymns in the original text to ensure that they do not misinterpret the hymns.

“I Don't Know Who to Blame”: Hiv-Positive South African Women Navigating Heterosexual Infection

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Long
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
South African ◽  
Male Partner ◽  
African Women ◽  
Heterosexual Transmission ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
African Black ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
South African Women

Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don't know who to blame” expresses gender-differentiated speaking rights. It also protects women from voicing their own anger, guilt and internalization of badness as a result of an HIV-positive diagnosis. Further, it protects women from exposure to male destructiveness and from confronting the possibility that they themselves are implicated in the infection of others. Analysis offers opportunities for exploring how women both resist and repeat dominant discourses and dominant fears related to HIV-infected womanhood.

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