Sekgothe Mokgoatšana
Biographic Data
| ID | 5144437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sekgothe Mokgoatšana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sekgothe |
| FAMILY NAME | Mokgoatšana |
| SIGNATURE | MOKGOATŠANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limpopo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3224-2341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Old wine in new bottles’
The purpose of this article is to raise an old debate that seeks to explore textual relations and how meaning is ascribed to texts. Is meaning finite? Is the author responsible for the meaning of the texts (s)he produces? The other question is whether heteroglossia implies a deliberate disruption and imitation of other texts. The article uses heteroglossia, a concept adapted by Julia Kristeva as ‘intertextuality’ to examine Sepedi poetry written …
Challenges presented by digitisation of VhaVenda oral tradition
The 21st century has witnessed an urgent need to digitise, learn, manage, preserve and exchange oral history in South Africa. This forms the background of the demonisation of indigenous knowledge systems that has impacted negatively and eroded the African values, norms, purpose, growth, sustainability and improvement of indigenous communities. In light of this realisation, this article explores the challenges offered by digitisation of VhaVenda o…
Knowledge management
Indigenous peoples’ ways of preserving, managing and sharing knowledge are argued to have contributed to their knowledge being threatened with extinction. This article addresses the need for intergenerational transmission of culturally unique knowledge for future generations through digital libraries. The speedy use of digital media in the modern, dynamic world gives valuable opportunities to facilitate the process of preserving, managing and sha…
(Re)Presenting the role of iconography in African Christian liturgy
This article examines the role of iconography in African Christian liturgy with a particular focus on Serima Mission in the now Catholic Diocese of Gweru in Central Zimbabwe. Of all Catholic missions in Zimbabwe, Serima Mission is perhaps the most popular in iconography with innumerable sets of wood and stone carvings portraying mostly religious scenes based on African designs and patterns. The atmosphere at Serima Mission, particularly the churc…
(De)Scribing home in apartheid South Africa
The article joins the ongoing discourse of subalterns and the manner in which they inscribe their lives as scripts to explain their relationship with spaces and places they consider to be home. It also contributes from the same subaltern position to the heated debate in settler/colonial studies which are part of the grand theory of postcolonial discourse. The subaltern, as I shall illustrate is not always the muted, waiting-to-be-rescued subject,…
The Changamirian offshoots in South Africa
Several studies that have been conducted about the Changamire society fall short of fully explaining this ancient society’s direct impact on the current Southern African ethnological landscape. Although a number of studies conducted in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe show various societies may have emerged from the Changamire, these studies rarely give a clear chronology regarding the emigrations from this ancient society. This ar…
Popular ‘superstition’ undermining piety amongst Christians
Prayers and places of worship are perhaps as old as humanity. A comprehensive survey of the dynamics and dialectics of African Christianity, Zimbabwe in particular, reveals that pilgrimages to holy places are a popular and common phenomenon. Of the many sacred places dotted around the Zimbabwean Christian landscape, Mutemwa shrine, located close to Mutoko Business Centre, is perhaps the most visited and popular, attracting thousands of Christians…
(W)riting and (de)scribing martyrdom
The purpose of this article is to describe how the Manche Masemola narrative crafts and constructs her as a martyr; dying in defence of her faith in the face of fierce religious competition between her Sepedi culture and Anglican faith. Manche is constructed as an extraordinary person who symbolises Virtue, battling with Vice. This article will examine Manche’s personality, and how the various commentators put her against unbearable conditions wh…
The historical relationship between African indigenous healing practices and Western-orientated biomedicine in South Africa
South African traditional medicine is based on centuries-old cultural heritage, yet it remains popular today, used by a significant percentage of the population. It has adapted to changing times, endured persecution by unfriendly governments and now enjoys a new status with the government’s adoption of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 35 of 2004. The adoption of this act was an important first step by the national government towards the i…
Why our ancestors never invented telescopes
The Afrikaner civil rights organisation AfriForum argued, following a parliamentary adoption of land expropriation without compensation, that there is no history of Native South Africans having occupied every inch of the country that they now claim they want to repossess. The organisation’s representatives argued that by their very subsistence agrarian existence, black people could not have lived in the platteland because their farming methods de…
The ‘polyonymous identity’ of the Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe and their struggle for a ‘collective proper name’
The Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe constitute one of the four sections of the Hlengwe subgroup of the Tsonga – an ethnic group found in four Southern African countries that include Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Before the 18th century, these sections constituted a single group that was resident in the Nyaka kingdom, south of Maputo, amongst the Southern Rhonga people. Here, they were known by the names ‘Hlengwe’ and ‘Tsonga/Rhonga…
The Relationship between Under-Nutrition and Hypertension among Ellisras Children and Adolescents Aged 9 to 17 Years
Background : Globally, under-nutrition and hypertension in children has been associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between under-nutrition and hypertension, furthermore, to determine the risk of developing hypertension due to under-nutrition. Methods : The study comprised of 1701 participants (874 boys and 827 girls) between the ages o…
Reconstructing Changamire’s family roots
The Munhumutapa (or Monomotapa) empire became a major political entity in Southern Africa from around 1420 AD. Founded and ruled by the Nembire family, its territory covered areas in the present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Its rulers used the title ‘Munhumutapa’, derived from the founder’s nickname, which was later adopted by the empire itself. All the rulers during the first century of the empire’s existence are known, and so are the relationsh…
Challenges presented by digitisation of VhaVenda oral tradition
The 21st century has witnessed an urgent need to digitise, learn, manage, preserve and exchange oral history in South Africa. This forms the background of the demonisation of indigenous knowledge systems that has impacted negatively and eroded the African values, norms, purpose, growth, sustainability and improvement of indigenous communities. In light of this realisation, this article explores the challenges offered by digitisation of VhaVenda o…
Reconstructing Changamire’s family roots
The Munhumutapa (or Monomotapa) empire became a major political entity in Southern Africa from around 1420 AD. Founded and ruled by the Nembire family, its territory covered areas in the present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique. Its rulers used the title ‘Munhumutapa’, derived from the founder’s nickname, which was later adopted by the empire itself. All the rulers during the first century of the empire’s existence are known, and so are the relationsh…
The Changamirian offshoots in South Africa
Several studies that have been conducted about the Changamire society fall short of fully explaining this ancient society’s direct impact on the current Southern African ethnological landscape. Although a number of studies conducted in South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe show various societies may have emerged from the Changamire, these studies rarely give a clear chronology regarding the emigrations from this ancient society. This ar…
Popular ‘superstition’ undermining piety amongst Christians
Prayers and places of worship are perhaps as old as humanity. A comprehensive survey of the dynamics and dialectics of African Christianity, Zimbabwe in particular, reveals that pilgrimages to holy places are a popular and common phenomenon. Of the many sacred places dotted around the Zimbabwean Christian landscape, Mutemwa shrine, located close to Mutoko Business Centre, is perhaps the most visited and popular, attracting thousands of Christians…
(W)riting and (de)scribing martyrdom
The purpose of this article is to describe how the Manche Masemola narrative crafts and constructs her as a martyr; dying in defence of her faith in the face of fierce religious competition between her Sepedi culture and Anglican faith. Manche is constructed as an extraordinary person who symbolises Virtue, battling with Vice. This article will examine Manche’s personality, and how the various commentators put her against unbearable conditions wh…
The historical relationship between African indigenous healing practices and Western-orientated biomedicine in South Africa
South African traditional medicine is based on centuries-old cultural heritage, yet it remains popular today, used by a significant percentage of the population. It has adapted to changing times, endured persecution by unfriendly governments and now enjoys a new status with the government’s adoption of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 35 of 2004. The adoption of this act was an important first step by the national government towards the i…
Why our ancestors never invented telescopes
The Afrikaner civil rights organisation AfriForum argued, following a parliamentary adoption of land expropriation without compensation, that there is no history of Native South Africans having occupied every inch of the country that they now claim they want to repossess. The organisation’s representatives argued that by their very subsistence agrarian existence, black people could not have lived in the platteland because their farming methods de…
The ‘polyonymous identity’ of the Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe and their struggle for a ‘collective proper name’
The Hlengwe people of Zimbabwe constitute one of the four sections of the Hlengwe subgroup of the Tsonga – an ethnic group found in four Southern African countries that include Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Swaziland. Before the 18th century, these sections constituted a single group that was resident in the Nyaka kingdom, south of Maputo, amongst the Southern Rhonga people. Here, they were known by the names ‘Hlengwe’ and ‘Tsonga/Rhonga…
The Relationship between Under-Nutrition and Hypertension among Ellisras Children and Adolescents Aged 9 to 17 Years
Background : Globally, under-nutrition and hypertension in children has been associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between under-nutrition and hypertension, furthermore, to determine the risk of developing hypertension due to under-nutrition. Methods : The study comprised of 1701 participants (874 boys and 827 girls) between the ages o…
Knowledge management
Indigenous peoples’ ways of preserving, managing and sharing knowledge are argued to have contributed to their knowledge being threatened with extinction. This article addresses the need for intergenerational transmission of culturally unique knowledge for future generations through digital libraries. The speedy use of digital media in the modern, dynamic world gives valuable opportunities to facilitate the process of preserving, managing and sha…
(Re)Presenting the role of iconography in African Christian liturgy
This article examines the role of iconography in African Christian liturgy with a particular focus on Serima Mission in the now Catholic Diocese of Gweru in Central Zimbabwe. Of all Catholic missions in Zimbabwe, Serima Mission is perhaps the most popular in iconography with innumerable sets of wood and stone carvings portraying mostly religious scenes based on African designs and patterns. The atmosphere at Serima Mission, particularly the churc…
(De)Scribing home in apartheid South Africa
The article joins the ongoing discourse of subalterns and the manner in which they inscribe their lives as scripts to explain their relationship with spaces and places they consider to be home. It also contributes from the same subaltern position to the heated debate in settler/colonial studies which are part of the grand theory of postcolonial discourse. The subaltern, as I shall illustrate is not always the muted, waiting-to-be-rescued subject,…
‘Old wine in new bottles’
The purpose of this article is to raise an old debate that seeks to explore textual relations and how meaning is ascribed to texts. Is meaning finite? Is the author responsible for the meaning of the texts (s)he produces? The other question is whether heteroglossia implies a deliberate disruption and imitation of other texts. The article uses heteroglossia, a concept adapted by Julia Kristeva as ‘intertextuality’ to examine Sepedi poetry written …
Challenges presented by digitisation of VhaVenda oral tradition
The 21st century has witnessed an urgent need to digitise, learn, manage, preserve and exchange oral history in South Africa. This forms the background of the demonisation of indigenous knowledge systems that has impacted negatively and eroded the African values, norms, purpose, growth, sustainability and improvement of indigenous communities. In light of this realisation, this article explores the challenges offered by digitisation of VhaVenda o…
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