South Africa is like a melting pot of languages. In total‚ South Africa has eleven major languages coming from both Africa and Europe. The major languages used are Afrikaans‚ English‚ Ndebele‚ Pedi‚ Sesotho‚ Swazi‚ Tsonga‚ Tswana‚ Venda‚ Xhosa and Zulu. In order to understand how each of these languages arrived in South Africa‚ we must first look at the history of people living in the country. The first identified language spoken in the South Africa was Khoisan. This language was spoken by the
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Read p.435-440 notes/MI The Atlantic slave trade MI: Trade was the basis of Portuguese relations with Africans‚ the Portuguese provided African rulers with slaves in return they received ivory‚ pepper‚ animal skin and gold. · Portuguese ships pushed down the west of Africa coast and reached the cape of good hope · They established factories‚ forts and trading posts with resident merchants‚ along the cost · El mina(1482) was the most important‚ it was a gold producing region · Africans
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similarity between China and Africa while they were undergoing Imperialism was that both nations opposed to Imperialism. The way this was done in Africa was by the Zulu war and mahDist war. The Zulu war was led by the Zulu nation (an African tribe) in the 1820’s and they fiercely resisted the British. This lasted till the 1880s and the Zulu nation was broken apart. However‚ in 1899‚ the Boer war began. In this the Boers‚ who were the Dutch farmers in Africa‚ resisted against the British. During the
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genetic diversity The study was cross sectional in nature conducted in Kazo and Nyabushozi counties of Mbarara district in South Western Uganda. Pastoralists (Bahima)‚ who have information on indigenous knowledge about Ankole cattle breeds and who use it to select superior bulls and cows‚ constituted the study population. A total of 167 pastoralists were targeted for the study where a total of 150 responded. It imaged from the study that the Bahima can easily identify their animals mainly by color
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Company * Descriptive – Pick ‘n Pay * Alliteration & rhyme – m & m’s * Evocative – Museum * Neologisms – Nestle * Foreign word – Porsche * Founder’s names – Enzo Ferrari * Geography – HillCrest 7. The noun name ama in zulu in branding name sport team names in South Africa it is used as a collaboration as in a way that is meaning some sort of unity because looking at a typical example‚ there is soccer team named Amazulu which on its own states that it is not just one
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[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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written and directed by the filmmaker Darrell Roodt in 2004.This movie is regarded as being the first international movie shot in Zulu language.It encompasses several issues which are extremely important in contemporary South Africa‚as for instance: poverty‚illness mainly with HIV infection and unproper medical attention. Yesterday‚a thirty year old Zulu woman is the main protagonist of Darrell Roodt’s movie.She lives in a small rural village in KwaZulu‐Natal province of South Africa
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from different periods in time. An example of social construction of sexuality and how it differs culturally is one of pre-marital sex in the 1950’s. A young Zulu woman was expected to remain a virgin until marriage. This young woman was trained to be a nurse‚ and when first met colleagues from more urban areas in the Eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal‚ as well as the city of Johannesburg‚ she was surprised at how many of her fellow
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THE CAUSES OF THE MFECANE AND WHY IT SPREAD SO FAR The Mfecane refers to a period of time in Southern Africa where there was political transformation and population migration during the 1820s and 1830s. The word Mfecane is a Zulu word meaning "crushing" or "scattering"‚which was exactly what happened during the Mfecane. There are various reasons about what led to the Mfecane‚such as environmental factors‚lack of food and certain chiefdoms expanding and extending their power‚some of these reasons
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Madagascar: The Case of a Lost Paradise English 204 Final Paper 5/29/2011 Maria El Hajj | Madagascar‚ better known as the eighth continent of the world‚ is one of the most precious landmasses on earth. Lying in the Indian Ocean‚ it detached from the African mainland 165 million years ago and developed into magnificent uniqueness through its wide range of biodiversity‚ large areas of forested lands‚ and its rare animals such as the Lemurs. In the 17th century‚ Madagascar started admitting
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