Xhosa

Runner’s Aesthetic choices within the production reflects the specific cultural aspect of the characters of the story. The English speaking white South-African Capetonian. The first Aesthetic choice in the composition of the shots in the industrial scene sets the geographic location of the story in Cape Town by show casing Table Mountain in the Background. This icon of the cap hints the audience at the character’s location and sets the story in being a part of the South-African Culture. Runner…

Option 2 There are different ways through which questions of language and power can be looked at. First, the concepts of language and power can be looked at through analysis of the power play within institutional contexts such as the legal institution (Eades 2006) and the medical institution (Crawford 1999). Language can also be discussed in the context of gender and sexuality. Cameron (2005) points out that when looking at socialization, gender linguistic behavior and gender identities are…

South African slum, Khayelitsha Introduction: Khayelitsha is a slum located south east from cape town in south Africa as shown in the diagrams above. The township 25 km from cape York and 19km from Wynberg and the name Khayelitsha is a name of Xhosa (South African person generally living in the East Cape) origin which means ‘new home.’ There are 5 characteristics a place must have to be deemed a slum and Khayelitsha ticks those 5 categories. These are… Appropriate sanitation: In May 2017,…

and music at The Bacchanal bar in Berkeley, California. The author, born Paulette Williams in Trenton, New Jersey, changed her name in 1971 to Ntozake Shange (which means, “She who comes with her own things” and “She who walks with lions” in Xhosa, the Zulu language). Shortly afterward, an artistic…

Introduction The United Nations, whose responsibility is to protect the basic human rights of all individuals, created the Millennium Development Goals to meet unprecedented basic needs of the poor in different areas of the world. The United Nations’ first mission: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Nonetheless, how is an entity such as the United Nations, or individual nation-states at that, supposed to break down systems that were meant to be permanent? A system can be described as an…

Nobel Peace Prize. South African youth began to really idolize Mandela and adopted some of his philosophical views against apartheid. Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlahla Mandela in the village of Mvezo in Transkei South Africa. He was born into the Xhosa tribe, they lived in this part of the region. Rolihlahla’s father was going to be chief one day but a local colonial resident took his father’s fortune and title because of an argument. Rolihlahla was baptized at a Methodist church and then…

prominent political figure in South Africa. Lodge (2006) explains how Mandela’s education played a critical role in his upbringing to political greatness. Lodge also describes essential centrality in the complex cooperation between the organizations of Xhosa custom and the mission-school, which served to outline his future political life. During Mandela’s time in Johannesburg, where it was through his association with the extremists members of the ANC, that Mandela started to captivate with…

Introduction Below follows a four-fold discussion and analysis of the SSAIS-R psychometric test. It begins with an in-depth description of the test, linking with what the test measures. Then moving on to motivation for whether it was a good choice or not, and lastly identifying key problems with the psychometric test. An in-depth description of the test SSAIS-R stands for Senior South African Intelligence Scales-Revised. This test has played a central role in the intelligence testing of South…

Slavery was brought to the Cape by a man named Jan van Riebeeck (SA History.org, 2017 ) in the year 1652 only for slavery to be abolished two centuries later in 1834 . Slaves were brought to the Cape because VOC officials who were granted farming land required assistance (SA History.org, 2017) these Dutch people were known as the Free Burghers. However the indigenous people of South Africa the Khoikhoi refused and were unwilling to work on the Free Burghers farms , which meant labour needed…

Apartheid imposed by the National Party (government party) in Africa. Afrikaners were Dutch decedents that arrived to Africa between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From 1877 to 1878 the last frontier war took place, between British colonies and Xhosa people; this war separated African people as it is said “Wars had left the people divided and dispossessed, and smarting at their loss of independence” . Moreover in 1913 it was imposed the…