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Circumfixes as emergent linguistic structures
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Rusandré Hendrikse --- Department of Linguistics, South Africa Mmemezi Mfusi --- Department of Linguistics, South AfricaOne of the manifestations of linguistic complexity is what Dahl (2004:2) describes as ‘grammatical constructions whose expression is longer than apparently necessary from a cross-linguistic perspective’. In the morphological system of Nguni languages there is a range of co-occurring affixes... -
‘The place of a woman is in the kitchen’: Individualism versus communalism in Belebesi's UNongxaki nezakhe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mfusi Cynthia Hoza --- Department of Humanities in Education, MthathaThe denigration of women to an inferior status in Xhosa society – a patriarchal communal system of oppression that confines women to the domestic space – is the focus of Gertrude Belebesi's (1976) UNongxaki nezakhe (‘Nongxaki's troubles and struggles’). The... -
Salutogenic Profile of Police Trainees on Entry into the Profession
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nomfusi Bekwa --- University of South Africa, Marié de Beer --- University of South Africa,The study aimed to determine the salutogenic (wellbeing) profile of South African police trainees on entry into the profession. Participants were police trainees with an average age of 26 years enrolled for basic training in a police college. Sample sizes... -
Psychological Strengths as Predictors of Postgraduate Students' Academic Achievement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sanet van der Westhuizen --- University of South Africa, Marié de Beer --- University of South Africa, Nomfusi Bekwa --- University of South Africa,This study sought to predict students' Grade Point Average (GPA) from their personal sense of coherence, locus of control, hope and research self-efficacy. Participants were 429 postgraduate students at a large South African university (males = 86, females = 311,... -
Patriarchal self-inflated pompous image deflated: A feminist reading of Swartbooi's UMandisa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mfusi Cynthia Hoza --- African Languages Unit, Dept of Humanities in Education, South AfricaThe purpose of the article is to examine how a female author, Swartbooi (1934), uses her female protagonist, Mandisa, to confront the harrowing conditions of the male-dominated 19th century Xhosa society and to unravel the female attributes that enable her...