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Land, Chiefs, Mining

South Africa's North West Province since 1840

By: Andrew Manson,Bernard Mbenga

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Land, Chiefs, Mining

South Africa's North West Province since 1840

By: Andrew Manson,Bernard Mbenga

Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief ), Moiloa II of the Bahurutshe; responses to and participation in the South African War and its aftermath, 1899-1907; land acquisition; economic and political conditions in the reserves; resistance to Mangope’s Bophuthatswana; the impact of game parks and the Sun City resort; rural resistance and the liberation struggle; and African reaction to the platinum mining revolution. Written in a direct and accessible style, and illustrated with photographs and maps, the book provides an understanding, for a general reader ship, of the region and its recent history. At the same time it opens up avenues for further research. The authors, Andrew Manson and Bernard Mbenga, both based at North-West University, Mahikeng Campus, have, for some thirty years, been studying and writing on the region’s past.

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1868149927

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FOREIGN VOICES

Lessons From Colonial Era Literature About Rendering Multilingual Dialogue

By: Bernard Botes Krüger

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Lessons From Colonial Era Literature About Rendering Multilingual Dialogue

By: Bernard Botes Krüger

Today's fiction is increasingly populated by multilingual urban societies in all their rich cultural variety," contends Bernard Botes Krüger, making a persuasive case that "readers need to 'hear' authentic sounding dialogue from the mouths of foreign-language characters-something which mere translations into standard English can never adequately accomplish." The concept of foreign-language dialogue in fiction is not new; many accomplished authors of the past have used a variety of subtle techniques to help their readers understand instances of 'foreign' dialogue. However, those techinues have never been thoroughly isolated and examined-until now. Using Britain's 'Colonial Era' literature as a starting point in this work, the author discusses and systematically catagorizes every type of 'device' used in the past, assembling in the process a veritible toolbox of techniques which aspiring writers can implement to enrich their multilingual dialogue.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1483689271

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Land, Chiefs, Mining

South Africa's North West Province since 1840

By: Andrew Manson,Bernard Mbenga

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South Africa's North West Province since 1840

By: Andrew Manson,Bernard Mbenga

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With Love from Nigeria

By: Bernard Halstead,James Halstead

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With Love from Nigeria

By: Bernard Halstead,James Halstead

A young man of 24, newly qualified with a degree in Classics from King's College Cambridge, joined the British Colonial Service early in 1939 and was posted to Nigeria. In Cambridge he left behind his girlfriend studying medicine at Newnham College. These are his letters to her --- a one-sided conversation of love, of jealousy, of separation, and of life in the depths of the African bush. At the end of 1941 they married and she finally joined him in Nigeria at the end of the war. They remained there until Nigerian independence from British rule in 1960. Together they had six children. She died in 1977, having known only three of their grandchildren. He survived until his 85th year taking joy in his sixteen grandchildren (and his first great-grandchild). In his last few years he transcribed these letters, to form a legacy to his progeny.

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0956824730

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