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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa –from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

open access: yesStellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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Who benefits the most from peer effects within ethnic group ? Empirical evidence on the South African Labour Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
URL des Documents de travail : http://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/bandeau-haut/documents-de-travail/Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 2011.44 - ISSN : 1955-611XThis paper provides evidence that local social interactions ...
Bourquin, Yannick, Ferrant, Gaëlle
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Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 234-243, November 2024.
Abstract Indigenous Southern Africans say that their laws are fundamentally grounded in the principle of Ubu‐Ntu (humane‐ness), but their communities are found empirically to often show the opposite of that law. Why is this? What is the law to which they lay claim to having? What are its roots and how can we reliably trace and know them?
Sindiso MnisiWeeks
wiley   +1 more source

Post-apartheid complexities of Xitsonga and mathematics teaching in rural foundation phase classrooms: A case of number patterns

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Sociality Studies
The study conducted in rural Acornhoek, Mpumalanga, addresses the inadequate research and understanding surrounding the teaching of mathematics in the early grades, particularly in rural South African schools where indigenous languages like Xitsonga are ...
Hlamulo Wiseman Mbhiza   +3 more
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Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2020
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa.
Tamuka Chekero, Shannon Morreira
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating a mental health intervention into PrEP services for South African young women: a human‐centred implementation research approach to intervention development

open access: yesJournal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 27, Issue S1, July 2024.
Abstract Introduction Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who may benefit from HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) face high levels of common mental disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety). Common mental disorders can reduce PrEP adherence and increase HIV risk, yet mental health interventions have not been well‐integrated into PrEP delivery.
Jennifer Velloza   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The one-sided view of VaTsonga marital endurance, Vukati VA Kandza hi Mbilu: A challenge to pastoral care

open access: yesTheologia Viatorum, 2022
Vukati VA Kandza hi Mbilu is a Xitsonga idiomatic expression implying that the road to marital success is for a wife to endure hardships. This idiomatic expression is firmly embedded in patriarchal beliefs, as it is only applicable to wives and not ...
Hundzukani P. Khosa-Nkatini, Dee Khosa
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No. 04: Silenced by Nation-Building: African Immigrants and Language Policy in the New South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
All people in South Africa have constitutionallyguaranteed language rights. To what extent do these rights apply to non-citizens and are they actually observed by various state departments and officials?
Crawhall, Nigel, Reitzes, Maxine
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The syntax-phonology mapping of intonational phrases in complex sentences: a flexible approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper, we extend to complex sentences the proposal that the notion of clause in Align/Match constraints related to the syntax-prosody mapping of the intonational phrase should be determined in each language (and each construction) by making ...
Hamlaoui, F, Szendroi, K
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Building Text and Speech Benchmark Datasets and Models for Low‐Resourced East African Languages: Experiences and Lessons

open access: yesApplied AI Letters, Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2024.
This paper discusses the process taken to create, curate and annotate text and speech corpus for low‐resourced languages in East Africa. ABSTRACT Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well represented in the existing natural language processing ecosystem.
Joyce Nakatumba‐Nabende   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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