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Winter Fire, Spring Resurgence

- Mann, Chris

  • Authors: Mann, Chris
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/459853 , vital:75866 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_432
  • Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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  • Date Issued: 1987

Work son

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Work, son

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Woza msebenzi woza

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Woza msebenzi woza

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Xhosa beer drinks and their oratory

- McAllister, Patrick A

  • Authors: McAllister, Patrick A
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Beer -- Social aspects -- South Africa , Drinking customs -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:2120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012863
  • Description: This is a study of 'beer drinks' among Xhosa people living in the Shixini administrative area of Willowvale district, Transkei. Beer drinks are defined as a 'polythetic' class of events distinguishable from other kinds of ceremonies and rituals at which beer may be consumed, and an attempt is made to outline their major characteristics. A detailed description of the way in which beer drinks are conducted is provided in Chapter 3, with emphasis on the symbolism involved in the allocation of beer, space and time, and on the speech events (including formal oratory) that occur. The main theoretical argument is that beer drinks may be regarded as 'cultural performances' in which social reality or 'practice' is dramatised and reflected upon, enabling people to infuse their experience with meaning and to establish guidelines for future action. This is achieved by relating social practice to cultural norms and values, in a dynamic rather than a static manner. It is demonstrated that the symbolism involved in beer drinking is highly sensitive to the real world and adjusts accordingly, which means that 'culture' is continually being reinterpreted. Despite poverty, a degree of landlessness and heavy reliance on migrant labour, Shixini people maintain an ideal of rural selfsufficiency and are able to partly fulfill this ideal, thereby maintaining a degree of independence and resistance to full incorporation into the wider political economy of southern Africa. They achieve this largely by maintaining a strong sense of community and of household interdependence, linked to a sense of Xhosa tradition. It is this aspect of social practice, manifested in a variety of forms - work parties, ploughing companies, rites of passage, and so on - that is dramatised, reflected upon and reinforced at beer drinks. In a definite sense then, beer drinks may be regarded as a response and a way of adapting to apartheid, and this study one of a community under threat.
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  • Date Issued: 1987

Yenzekani nto zomhlaba

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yesu langa lomphefumlo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yiba nabo wena Baba

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yimal'ethethayo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintoni madoda

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintoni majita

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintoni nisoyika

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintonina le

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintoninale

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Yintoninale

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

You bring back memories

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

You bring back memories

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

You look like a stranger

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

You must be joking

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

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