[pic] Pelargonium sidoides (Umckaloabo) Introduction: For hundreds of years the Zulu‚ Basuto‚ Xhosa and Mfengi cultures have used Pelargonium sidoides as a curative for coughs‚ upper respiratory tract irritations and gastrointestinal concerns. Today‚ with the advantages of modern science and clinical research‚ we are able to better understand what makes this traditional remedy work so effectively. Pelargonium sidoides has been successfully used for the treatment of: |Respiratory infections
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Masculinities in colonial Kenya. The subject of masculinity or masculinities is the one that has drawn attention to gender scholars around the world. Through interactions with Robert Morel’s writings about Gender and Masculinity‚ I have come to understand that masculinities differ depending in the context which they are in. This essay will analyse how and why did the production of masculinities change among the Maasai as a result of colonisation in Kenya. Many factors including environmental change
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office‚ and the first elected in a fully representative‚ multiracial election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalized racism‚ poverty and inequality‚ and fostering racial reconciliation. A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family‚ Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand‚ where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg‚ he became involved in anti-colonial politics‚ joining the African National Congress and becoming
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become Cape Town‚[20] on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. The Dutch transported slaves from Indonesia‚ Madagascar‚ and India as labour for the colonists in Cape Town. As they expanded east‚ the Dutch settlers met the southwesterly migrating Xhosa people in the region of the Fish River. A series of wars‚ called the Cape
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Linguistic attitudes among English varieties in South Africa - Do South Africans tolerate English linguistic diversity? Presented at the Faculty for Anglistic University of Potsdam Bachelor thesis In partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Frauke Ferber 1 Abstract In the ongoing search for identity‚ the turbulent history of Johannesburg (and South Africa) resulted in a society that is “torn between the extremes of utopian dreamworld
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Arne Engelbrecht 25143484 HIST 111 Essay assignment: Nelson R. Mandela 18 March 2014 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 at Mvezo‚ in tiny village near the Mbashe River in the district of Umtata. In Xhosa Rolihanda means ‘’pulling the branch of a tree’’ but also ‘’troublemaker’’ which describes Mandela quite accurately. Nelson Mandela was born into the Thembu tribe‚ he was a member of the royal household but was not trained to be a ruler one day‚ only groomed to be
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activist.born on July 18‚ 1918 in Mvezo‚ Umtata (now Mthatha)‚ Transkei‚ South Africa. He had thirteen siblings by the same father‚ and two mothers. His parents were Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa and Nosekeni Nonqaphi . His given name was Rolihlahla‚ a Xhosa name meanimg pulling branch of a tree or informally‚ Trouble maker. On April 27‚ 1994‚ he was made the first President of South Africa elected in a fully represented democratic election. Mandela was also the first black President of his country. Mandela
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Goodbye Bafana Summary: The film is about a man named James Gregory‚ who grew up on a farm in South Africa with dark coloured people. In this way‚ James learned their language Xhosa‚ culture and conditions. Later on when James became an adult‚ he was employed by the government. The government finds out that James can speak the native language and therefore he gets a job‚ where he had to censor all kinds of letters that goes in and out of the prison and the prisoners’ conversations‚ he could
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The Great trek The Voortrekkers comprised two groups from the eastern frontier region of the Cape Colony‚ semi-nomadic pastoralists known as Trekboers‚ and established farmers and artisans known as Grensboere‚ or Border Farmers. Together these groups were later called Voortrekkers Pioneers. While most settlers who lived in the western Cape later known as the Cape Dutch did not trek eastward‚ a small number did. The first colonists‚ who arrived in 1652 to set up a "depot for the provosion of ships"under
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subsistence needs or the expectation of an imminent resurrection of the dead” (Peires‚ 44). The Believers would not have risked the lives of the entire community without truly believing that the ancestors would be resurrected. Peires mentions that the Xhosa believe that the dead are still walking among the living‚ but in a different form‚ so their resurrection is very
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