The Importance of the Original
Challenges in Interpreting a Xhosa Testimony Before the South African TRC
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12890242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nosisi Lynette Mpolweni (University of the Western Cape, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 221-232 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-7143 • E-ISSN: 1747-6615 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17447140802372770 |
| OpenAlex | W1993053885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Two thousand testimonies focusing on gross Human Rights Violations were delivered in public before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. One of them was the narrative of Mrs Konile. She testified with three other mothers whose sons were also killed by Security Police in an incident that became known as the Gugulethu Seven. In comparison with the many official versions available on the TRC website, Mrs Konile's testimony seems ‘strange’. It does not focus on remembering her son, as so many of the other testimonies do, and it seems to drift from one surreal moment to the next. Could this ‘strangeness’ be due to interpretation problems? In this paper I go back to the original testimony of Mrs Konile (in isiXhosa) to try and determine what got lost during the processes of translation/interpretation and transcription
Commission · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Xhosa · Gender Studies · History · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Philosophy · South African History and Culture · Translation Studies and Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2017 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |