Amakwenkwe (boys) on the march : n.d
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12161 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000938 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12161 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000938 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
Amagqira at Zangafa
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000887 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: n.d
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000887 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: n.d
Service of Thanksgiving after Childbirth : Manzana, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12041 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000818 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12041 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000818 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Visiting the sick : 1960
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12030 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000807 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12030 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000807 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1960
Bride and attendants: Esidadeni, All Saints, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12006 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000783 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Initiation rites -- South Africa , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12006 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000783 , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
“Ntombazana, ugayela bani?”: ubunzululwazi beentsimbi
- Authors: Silo, Tolakele Talitha
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Beadwork, Xhosa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Beadwork, Tembu , Tembu (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167487 , vital:41485
- Description: “ NTOMBAZANA, UGAYELA BANI?”: UBUNZULULWAZI BEENTSIMBI is a study on the culture of abaThembu, one of the amaXhosa subgroups. Focusing on beadwork as one of this group’s cultural aspects, this research is an initiative to ensure documentation of such indigenous knowledge as an influence on the lifestyle of abaThembu. It also strives to uplift the use of oral literature to present it a fair chance at being a driving force for change as it has previously been ousted with the acceptability of written literature. Of great surprise is to see that despite western civilization, which affected the people’s culture, beadwork remains a pillar of the abaThembu-amaXhosa culture. This craft has evolved and thus, shows no signs of regression. This thesis is an indigenous knowledge focused research.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Silo, Tolakele Talitha
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Beadwork, Xhosa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Beadwork, Tembu , Tembu (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167487 , vital:41485
- Description: “ NTOMBAZANA, UGAYELA BANI?”: UBUNZULULWAZI BEENTSIMBI is a study on the culture of abaThembu, one of the amaXhosa subgroups. Focusing on beadwork as one of this group’s cultural aspects, this research is an initiative to ensure documentation of such indigenous knowledge as an influence on the lifestyle of abaThembu. It also strives to uplift the use of oral literature to present it a fair chance at being a driving force for change as it has previously been ousted with the acceptability of written literature. Of great surprise is to see that despite western civilization, which affected the people’s culture, beadwork remains a pillar of the abaThembu-amaXhosa culture. This craft has evolved and thus, shows no signs of regression. This thesis is an indigenous knowledge focused research.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
Portrait of a learner traditional healer, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11997 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000774 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11997 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000774 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
Evening cooking fires: eLuhewini, 1976
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12015 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000792 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1976
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12015 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000792 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1976
Conversation piece : Nkondlo, 1962
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12039 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000816 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1962
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12039 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000816 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1962
Mother feeds baby by hand, 1964
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11999 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000776 , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1964
- Subjects: Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:11999 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000776 , Medicine, Rural -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1964
Three perspectives on ukuthwasa: the view from traditional beliefs, western psychiatry and transpersonal psychology
- Authors: Booi, Beauty Ntombizanele
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: Healers -- South Africa , Divination -- South Africa , Schizophrenia -- Social aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2936 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002445 , Healers -- South Africa , Divination -- South Africa , Schizophrenia -- Social aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: Among the Xhosas, the healing sickness called intwaso is interptreted as a call by the ancestors to become a healer. Transpersonalists also see these initiatory illnesses as spiritual crises, while according to the widely accepted Western psychiatric view, illness is purely perceived in physical and psychological terms. A case study was conducted where a single participant who has undergone the process of ukuthwasa and is functioning as a traditional healer was interviewed. A series of interviews were done where information was gathered about significant experiences related to ukuthwasa process. Tapes were transcribed and a case narrative was written and interpreted using the traditional Xhosa beliefs, the western psychiatric and the transpersonal psychology perspectives. Strengths and weaknesses of each perspective were then examined.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Booi, Beauty Ntombizanele
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: Healers -- South Africa , Divination -- South Africa , Schizophrenia -- Social aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2936 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002445 , Healers -- South Africa , Divination -- South Africa , Schizophrenia -- Social aspects , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Description: Among the Xhosas, the healing sickness called intwaso is interptreted as a call by the ancestors to become a healer. Transpersonalists also see these initiatory illnesses as spiritual crises, while according to the widely accepted Western psychiatric view, illness is purely perceived in physical and psychological terms. A case study was conducted where a single participant who has undergone the process of ukuthwasa and is functioning as a traditional healer was interviewed. A series of interviews were done where information was gathered about significant experiences related to ukuthwasa process. Tapes were transcribed and a case narrative was written and interpreted using the traditional Xhosa beliefs, the western psychiatric and the transpersonal psychology perspectives. Strengths and weaknesses of each perspective were then examined.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2005
Amakrwala experiences as learners in a Buffalo City secondary school: implications for school leadership and management
- Authors: Duka-Ntshweni, Nomonde
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Education, Secondary -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Identity (Psychology) , Leadership
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Ed
- Identifier: vital:16191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006252 , School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Education, Secondary -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Identity (Psychology) , Leadership
- Description: ‘Ulwaluko’ (the male initiation custom) has been practised for generations by many cultures in South Africa and in Africa as a whole. AmaXhosa are amongst the population groups in South Africa within whom this custom has survived pre colonially and through the colonial and apartheid eras up to the current democracy. While this custom was reserved for older, mature and senior boys in the past, there is evidence that nowadays immature and junior boys as young as 12 years are taken to the initiation school. This study sought to understand how these newly graduated initiated men (amakrwala) cope with their multifaceted identities, as learners in a secondary school and as adults in the community. The study also seeks to explore a leadership style that can be sensitive to the needs of ‘amakrwala’ at school. This is a qualitative study which used interpretivism as the research paradigm. Phenomenology is the research design and phenomenological interviews were used as the data gathering tools. The findings reveal that there are tensions that exist between modernity and tradition in socialising amakrwala. The school represents the modern space and the home and community are the traditional spaces. In the formal school environment there is minimal or no recognition of the new identity of the ‘amakrwala’. At school ‘amakrwala’ are seen as learners. Their identity and status remain unchanged from what they were before they went to the initiation school. However, in the community and at home, they are elevated from a childhood to an adult status and their identities are thus re-shaped.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Duka-Ntshweni, Nomonde
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Education, Secondary -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Identity (Psychology) , Leadership
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Ed
- Identifier: vital:16191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006252 , School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rites and ceremonies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Education, Secondary -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Identity (Psychology) , Leadership
- Description: ‘Ulwaluko’ (the male initiation custom) has been practised for generations by many cultures in South Africa and in Africa as a whole. AmaXhosa are amongst the population groups in South Africa within whom this custom has survived pre colonially and through the colonial and apartheid eras up to the current democracy. While this custom was reserved for older, mature and senior boys in the past, there is evidence that nowadays immature and junior boys as young as 12 years are taken to the initiation school. This study sought to understand how these newly graduated initiated men (amakrwala) cope with their multifaceted identities, as learners in a secondary school and as adults in the community. The study also seeks to explore a leadership style that can be sensitive to the needs of ‘amakrwala’ at school. This is a qualitative study which used interpretivism as the research paradigm. Phenomenology is the research design and phenomenological interviews were used as the data gathering tools. The findings reveal that there are tensions that exist between modernity and tradition in socialising amakrwala. The school represents the modern space and the home and community are the traditional spaces. In the formal school environment there is minimal or no recognition of the new identity of the ‘amakrwala’. At school ‘amakrwala’ are seen as learners. Their identity and status remain unchanged from what they were before they went to the initiation school. However, in the community and at home, they are elevated from a childhood to an adult status and their identities are thus re-shaped.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2013
The influence of cellular phone "speak" on isiXhosa rules of communication
- Kaschula, Russell H, Mostert, André
- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Mostert, André
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Cell phones -- South Africa , Communication and culture -- Technological innovations , Language and culture -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59401 , vital:27594 , doi: 10.5842/37-0-43
- Description: Cellular telephones have revolutionised the art of communication across all societies, and South Africa is no exception. Access to this form of communication has made personal contact easier, in both rural and urban contexts. Globally this form of communication has been readily embraced. However, cultural rules that pertain to face-to-face communication are often flouted by cellular phone users. This flouting holds true no doubt across many cultures, languages and contexts. Bloomer (2005:97-100) assesses this flouting of cultural maxims in relation to Grice's cooperative principle. This article attempts to assess how general rules of politeness in isiXhosa have been and are being transformed by what could be termed the "economics of speaking".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Mostert, André
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Cell phones -- South Africa , Communication and culture -- Technological innovations , Language and culture -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59401 , vital:27594 , doi: 10.5842/37-0-43
- Description: Cellular telephones have revolutionised the art of communication across all societies, and South Africa is no exception. Access to this form of communication has made personal contact easier, in both rural and urban contexts. Globally this form of communication has been readily embraced. However, cultural rules that pertain to face-to-face communication are often flouted by cellular phone users. This flouting holds true no doubt across many cultures, languages and contexts. Bloomer (2005:97-100) assesses this flouting of cultural maxims in relation to Grice's cooperative principle. This article attempts to assess how general rules of politeness in isiXhosa have been and are being transformed by what could be termed the "economics of speaking".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
Bride receives housekeeping items : Esidadeni, All Saints, 1956
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12008 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000785 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1956
- Subjects: Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12008 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000785 , Marriage customs and rites -- South Africa -- Transkei , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1956
All Saints Hospital Golden Jubilee : All Saints, 1979
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Rural health services -- South Africa -- Transkei , Medicine, Rural -- Practice -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12179 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000956 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Rural health services -- South Africa -- Transkei , Medicine, Rural -- Practice -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Rural health services -- South Africa -- Transkei , Medicine, Rural -- Practice -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12179 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000956 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Rural health services -- South Africa -- Transkei , Medicine, Rural -- Practice -- South Africa -- Transkei , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
At the dance of Abakhwetha: Bokleni, 1959
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000896 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Still image
- Identifier: vital:12119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000896 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Initiation rites -- South Africa , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Weighing babies : All Saints Hospital, 1958
- Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12028 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000805 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Ingle, Pauline Cornwell, 1915-1999
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Identifier: vital:12028 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1000805 , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Photography -- South Africa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958
The significance of Nguni cattle with reference to traditional value in agriculture
- Authors: Nxoko, Lloyd Chumani
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Nguni cattle -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10243 , vital:26645
- Description: In the Xhosa culture, Nguni cattle have always been valued due to cultural rituals purpose but were not viewed from a development perspective. In fact, traditionally, in Xhosa society, cattle were used not only as primary sources of food such as milk, meat and other related secondary products, but in the performance of rituals. From milk one can get sour milk (amasi) which is a staple diet for both young ones and adults. Furthermore, butter, which was traditionally used for cosmetics purposes, is also derived from milk. Thus, the focus of this study is on the paradigm shift, as well as the role played by cattle in Xhosa cultural rituals and agriculture.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Nxoko, Lloyd Chumani
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs , Xhosa (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies , Nguni cattle -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10243 , vital:26645
- Description: In the Xhosa culture, Nguni cattle have always been valued due to cultural rituals purpose but were not viewed from a development perspective. In fact, traditionally, in Xhosa society, cattle were used not only as primary sources of food such as milk, meat and other related secondary products, but in the performance of rituals. From milk one can get sour milk (amasi) which is a staple diet for both young ones and adults. Furthermore, butter, which was traditionally used for cosmetics purposes, is also derived from milk. Thus, the focus of this study is on the paradigm shift, as well as the role played by cattle in Xhosa cultural rituals and agriculture.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2015
Ubuntu: linking indigenous values with efforts in building a reconciled South Africa: the case of NMMU
- Authors: Pezisa, Lindiswa
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Postcolonialism -- South Africa , South Africa -- Historiography -- Social aspects , Reparations for historical injustices -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14477 , vital:27657
- Description: This thesis investigates the role that African indigenous value systems, Ubuntu in particular, could play in building a reconciled South Africa. In doing so a discourse analysis on Ubuntu is conducted and its potential in facilitating social cohesion in the quest for nation building. Specific focus is drawn on higher education an important task if we are to consider the accusation that higher education like its society, is still undergoing transformation and is under pressure to provide quality education for all people whilst also considering the large numbers of cultures that exist. For much needs to be done in redressing the imbalances caused by the apartheid education system which was organized according to racial lines. In doing so, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is utilised as a case study with narrative presentations of how students perceive this traditional African value and its applicability to reconciliation in a post conflict society. For seemingly, there is something inherently important about this value in that it has been invoked and referred to in many important instances in South African history.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Pezisa, Lindiswa
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Postcolonialism -- South Africa , South Africa -- Historiography -- Social aspects , Reparations for historical injustices -- South Africa , Xhosa (African people) -- Social life and customs
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/14477 , vital:27657
- Description: This thesis investigates the role that African indigenous value systems, Ubuntu in particular, could play in building a reconciled South Africa. In doing so a discourse analysis on Ubuntu is conducted and its potential in facilitating social cohesion in the quest for nation building. Specific focus is drawn on higher education an important task if we are to consider the accusation that higher education like its society, is still undergoing transformation and is under pressure to provide quality education for all people whilst also considering the large numbers of cultures that exist. For much needs to be done in redressing the imbalances caused by the apartheid education system which was organized according to racial lines. In doing so, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University is utilised as a case study with narrative presentations of how students perceive this traditional African value and its applicability to reconciliation in a post conflict society. For seemingly, there is something inherently important about this value in that it has been invoked and referred to in many important instances in South African history.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2017