With their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in Durban, our young Ulwazi fieldworkers write about everything from local cultural groups, to exhibition openings and recipes for traditional Zulu foods. Click on the links below to read about what Sboniso and Nkosikhona have been researching this month:
Kuqala yayithwalwa intombi meyingathwalwanga bekuba omunye kubazalibayo ngokuhalela izinkomozalomnumzane nokuthanda umfana ngokuthi uyayishaya induku noma ulwa kakhulu mekunempi, noma omama bezixoxela bodwa ngingajabula intombi izogana lapha kwami usezoyishoke ukuthi ubonani kuyo usezoshoke ikhuthele ilinono mhlambe ukayibone ithwele umyaba omkhulu beyiphuma kotheza mhlawumbe ukayina ke ukuthi njalo iyasinda kubo iwakowasha ithi ingaqeda ibuyele kubo iyokwenza omunye … Read more
Last week SAFM held an interesting discussion on the preservation and promotion of indigenous languages in South Africa. Radio presenter, Stephen Grootes, debated the issue with Dr Thabo Ditsele, Linguistic PHD student at UCT; Senior lecturer in African Languages at UCT, Dr Tessa Dowling; and Professor Sihawu Ngubane, Head of African Languages and Linguistics at UKZN, and former … Read more
Isintu siyinsila yomuntu noma ungayaphi kodwa kuhlezi kuyinto ekhona, abasuka emakhaya beyokwakha esilungwini, emolokishini kuyafana. Ngisho ungabashintsha abantu indlela abenza ngayo bashintshele kwisimanje kodwa uyabona ukuthi kunezinto engeke bashintshe kuzo, lapha ke sikhuluma ngendaba yokuzelapha ngesintu. Ngoba sesiphila esikhathini sesilungu nje sakwaba khona nama-“medical aid” okuwuhlelo lokuzisiza kulaba abakwazi ukuwakhokhela. Lokhu kusho ukuthi umuntu ogulayo … Read more
Each month we do a wrap up of what our Ulwazi fieldworkers have been researching, and this month it’s clear that Siboniso’s work had a definite theme, with the majority of his stories focusing on Zulu traditions surrounding death. Click on the links below to read about the isihlangu ceremony that’s performed after the death of a male family … Read more
One of the core principles of the Ulwazi Programme is that information be collected in as democratic a manner as possible, with members of the public working in conjunction with fieldworkers to create content, many of which were previously unrecorded. Working along similar lines, Proclamation 73 is a not-for-profit project that is currently calling for the … Read more