Vista University

About: Vista University is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Boron trifluoride & Higher education. The organization has 225 authors who have published 336 publications receiving 3345 citations.

The hierarchy of the essential verb categories in Zulu

Abstract: The aim of this article is to determine the hierarchical arrangement of the essential verb categories mood, tense, time and actuality. The mutual dependency of these verbal categories is determined. The subcategories found in each of these major categories are investigated in order to establish their mutual exclusiveness. Apart from the realization of these categories in the main verb, their realization in the copulative verb is also determined. The copulative verb has a further essential category, namely implication which realizes as a binary opposition inchoative versus non-inchoative. It is imperative to establish the mutual dependency and hierarchy of the essential verb categories for an exhaustive discussion of the verb, an area which has hitherto been sadly neglected.

Dimensions of change in white south african edvcation, 1990–1992

Abstract: Changes introduced in white schools in South Africa in September 1990 after decades of authoritarian, racially segregated and unequal education had the potential to start a process of fundamental educational reform. Diffusion of the innovation started in the southwestern coastal areas of South Africa and spread along the south and eastern coasts before turning inland to the deep interior. The diffusion had a hierarchical spatial spread based on the sizes of settlements. Socially, it was influenced by language, political ethos, population density and perceived racial distances. Although considered to be short-sighted, self-serving adaptive measures, these changes have resituated white education in a position where its socio-economic exclusiveness is now defined in terms of class rather man race.

Cole's Dokean Model: Issues and implications

Abstract: This article is a response to Cole's article, ‘The history of African linguistics to 1945’. I use Kuhn's and Stegmueller's arguments that Doke's model reflects the influences of traditional grammar. This article is therefore a contribution to the historiography of African linguistics.

Writing Around the Bushmen: The !Kung, Anthropology and Feminism

Abstract: Ethnographers, historians, sociologists, development officers and even novelists always ultimately depart from their scene of research. They take away texts for later transcription, translation, interpretation and reconstruction. The text (and this includes tape recordings, field notes, films etc.), unlike many of the people who are being studied, can travel. The ethical concerns raised about cultural representation are central to the anthropological debate regarding descriptionption and/or representation in that the researcher ultimately has control over the keyboard.

The theme of protest in C.L.S. Thobega's poetry

Abstract: This paper looks at how the theme of protest is handled and revealed in Thobega's poetry. As a spokesperson of his society, Botswana in particular and Africa in general, the poet highlights the black masses' sufferings and pain brought by oppression, discrimination and unjust laws. The term ‘black masses’ refers to all those who identify with the oppressed people. Aspects of protest to be looked at in this paper are, societal behaviour, discrimination, oppression and repression. This paper also makes reference to the killings of the Sharpville marchers in 1960 and how the poet alludes and echoes other texts through his poetry.