Notes on actionality in two Nguni languages of South Africa

Editorial: Culture and Context: Notes on Performance in South Africa

Southern Africa in the 1980's embraces ideologies and material realities which radically affect art and culture. The observer can no longer base assessments upon idealist and humanist notions derived from traditional prescriptions in art : the ideological, political and socio-economic contradictions which affect the lives of all people on the sub-continent must be accomodated. The cultural expr...

Resistance of Nguni, Bonsmara and Hereford cattle to ticks in a Bushveld region of South Africa.

Counts of engorged female ticks on naturally infested cattle over a 2 year period, showed that indigenous Nguni cattle harboured significantly fewer Amblyomma hebraeum, Boophilus decoloratus and Hyalomma spp. during periods of peak abundance than either Bonsmara or Hereford cattle. Fewer abscesses, associated with tick bite, were also present in the Nguni cattle. Individual tick resistance indi...

Pitch modelling for the Nguni languages

Although the complexity of prosody is widely recognised, the lack of widely-accepted descriptive standards for prosodic phenomena has meant that prosodic systems for most of the languages of the world have, at best, been described in impressionistic rule-based terms. For the languages of Southern Africa, the deficiencies in our modelling capabilities are acute. Little work of a quantitative nat...

Notes of Epidemics in South Africa in 1866

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...