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Speaking the language of the patient: indigenous language policy and practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Margaret Matthews --- University Language Board, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Republic of South Africa Jacqueline Van Wyk --- Clinical and Pedagogical Education, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, Republic of South AfricaSouth Africa faces numerous challenges in healthcare, with the result that communities in many rural provinces are grossly underserved. These problems are compounded when doctors are unable to communicate with their patients. IsiZulu is spoken by most people in KwaZulu-Natal... -
Development and validation of the isiZulu quality of recovery score
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: S Sikhakhane --- Department of Anaesthesia, South Africa B Kusel --- Department of Anaesthesia, South Africa RN Rodseth --- Metropolitan Department of Anaesthetics, Critical Care and Pain Management, South AfricaBackground: Recovery from anaesthesia and surgery is an important marker of the quality of perioperative care. One extensively validated score in assessing this is the Quality of Recovery–15 items (QoR-15) score. This study aimed to translate the QoR-15 score into... -
Parasitic infections and environmental influences on verbal memory and learning potential of isiZulu speaking pre-school children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xolisile I. Mazibuko --- , South Africa Moses J. Chimbari --- , South AfricaThis study aimed to explore the effects of parasitic infections, demographic, and contextual factors on verbal memory and learning potential. Applying a cross sectional, experimental, and comparative design, we sampled 112 black pre-school children from a historically poor rural South... -
The interplay of verbal cinematic, balletic and pantomimic manifestations in isiZulu literary narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Sicelo Ziphozonke Ntshangase --- Language and Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lungile Mncwango --- University of Pretoria, South AfricaThere is a dearth of studies that analyse the discourse of isiZulu literature. Most studies focus on the actual story, which is the chain of events and its setting. However, discourse, which is how the story is narrated, is frequently... -
Ukucobelelana ngolwazi olungamagugu ase-Afrika lwesenzo ‘goma’ olusemyalezweni osenkundleni yezokuxhumana iTikTok
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Beryl Babsy Boniwe Xaba --- University of South Africa, South AfricaSekube nokukhalaza okuningi ngokubhalwa kolimi ezinkundleni zokuxhumana. Izingcweti zolimi kanye nabacwaningi bolimi abagculisekile ngokusetshenziswa kolimi kulezi zizindalwazi. Isililo esikhulu sisuswa ukungayilandeli imigomo nemithetho yolimi lwesiZulu uma kubhalwa ezinkundleni zokuxhumana. Lolu cwaningo luhlose ukwethula indlela inkundla yezokuxhumana iTikTok efundisa ngayo ngemvelaphi... -
Doke revisited – Combining Zulu ‘vowel verbs with variant non-vowel forms’ and ‘latent-vowel verbs’ in a single category
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Michel Lafon --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mongezi Bolofo --- University of South Africa,Doke’s influence on Zulu description cannot be overstated. It underlies, to this day, most grammatical works on the language. Our attempt here is to do away with a subtle distinction Doke introduced by merging the two sub-categories of what he... -
Translation of personification into isiNdebele and isiZulu in selected Bible texts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nomsebenzi Johanna Malele --- College of Human Sciences,Translating figures of speech can be a daunting task particularly to people who are not skilled in translation. The purpose of this article was to examine whether personification as a figure of speech was successfully translated from the original Hebrew... -
A morpho-syntactic analysis of qualifiers in Bantu languages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Rivalani Xenon Masonto --- University of Zululand, South Africa Elliot Mthembeni Mncwango --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThe aim of this article is to comparatively analyse qualifiers in Bantu languages for structural positioning and syntactic functions. It focuses specifically on Xitsonga, isiZulu, Northern Sotho, and Swahili. Qualitative methods were employed. Data were collected through interviews and document...