language Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/language/ Arts and African History Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:50:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Language in schools: On Afrikaans and the plight of Black parents https://consciousness.co.za/language-schools-afrikaans-plight-black-parents/ https://consciousness.co.za/language-schools-afrikaans-plight-black-parents/#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2016 07:50:45 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=12657 In the beginning of October, I attended my nephew’s primary school concert at the Academy for Christian Education (ACE) in Brits. I had been looking forward to it for weeks, having forgotten what my own experience of these concerts had been like as a child.  My nephew, currently in the fourth grade, was also very [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/language-schools-afrikaans-plight-black-parents/feed/ 0 The beauty about an economical language https://consciousness.co.za/the-beauty-about-an-economical-languages/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-beauty-about-an-economical-languages/#respond Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:18:07 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=5884 Hlogotshwewu (white or grey head) is a term that Bapedi(Nothern Sotho speakers) use to refer to an old or an elderly person. The story of this term does not end here, it gets more interesting when “hlogotshwewu” is associated with the younger ones, this is through the roles that he(it has predominantly used to refer [...]

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