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Religious Identity and Decision Making Among IsiXhosa-Speaking Youth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ntshangase Sibusiso --- University of South Africa, Andile Alfred Mdikana --- University of South Africa,This article presents the results from a study investigating the relationship between religious identity and decision making among IsiXhosa-speaking high school learners from schools in Cape Town, South Africa. Participants were fourty (40) 12th Grade learners (females = 50%; males... -
isiXhosa names of South African land mammals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: J. M. Feely [AN0001]The isiXhosa colloquial names of 86 taxa of South African land mammals recorded in three mammalogical works and three isiXhoxa dictionaries are tabulated and discussed. This reveals several ambiguities, discrepancies, inconsistencies and uncertainties, as well those species and groups of... -
Identity formation among isiXhosa-speaking adolescents in a rural Eastern Cape community in South Africa: A brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Charl Alberts --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Myron J. Bennett --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe study investigated identity-related choices practised among South African isiXhosa-speaking adolescents from a rural Eastern Cape community. A sample of 40 adolescents (65% females; age range 15 and 21 years) participated in the study. The adolescents completed an identity statuses... -
Gender roles and decision making among isiXhosa-speaking adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andile Alfred Mdikana --- Department of Inclusive Education, School of Educational Studies, South AfricaThis exploratory study examined gender roles and decision making among isiXhosa-speaking adolescents. Participants were a non-probability sample of 40 Grade 12 learners (females = 50%; aged between 17 and 24 years). Data were collected using identity status interviews and analysed... -
Sexual knowledge and beliefs of IsiXhosa-speaking adolescents: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Peter Khwezi Nyewe --- , South AfricaThis study explored indigenous community adolescents’ perceptions of parent caregiver sexual support. The participants were 174 IsiXhosa speaking adolescents (female = 58.1%; age range = 16 to 18 years). They completed the Parents Sex Education, General View on Sexuality, Sexual... -
Nominalisation and semantic shift in selected isiXhosa nouns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Andiswa Mvanyashe --- Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaThis study addresses the process of nominalisation in isiXhosa to establish its historical development and implications on the writing and sense of words. Nominalisation, an important feature of scientific writing, enables information concentration as well as grammatical functions such as... -
Uphicothonzulu ngokwenkcazobungcali yenkcubekontlalo ngokobuhlanga kwibali elifutshane lesiXhosa elithi Umgcini-mangcwaba
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mlamli Diko --- University of South Africa (UNISA),Iiyantlukwano ngokobuhlanga kunye nocalucalulo zibonisa ukunyathelela phezulu, nto leyo ethi ithintele ubumbano nentsebenziswano phakathi kweentlanga ngeentlanga kwintlalo nenkcubeko yoMzantsi Afrika. Nakubeni umgaqonkqubo wocalucalulo wabhangiswa ngomnyaka we1994, abaNtsundu kunye namaNgesi abonakalisa ukungqubana nokujongana ngezikhondo zamehlo kwiimeko ezithile njengoko kuvela kwibali elifutshane...