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Gender pt 1: -lili & the basics

Post author By White Zulu
Post date August 16, 2016
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This is the first part of a three-part series on Gender ngesiZulu, which is something I’ve recently been researching for two different friends. This is an ancient or ur-Bantu root meaning ‘bed’. It’s very different from the word u(lu)cansi, meaning ‘sleeping mat’ or (euphemistically) ‘sex’. There are no cognates of -lili meaning ‘bed’ specifically. This […]

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ONA – Taxonomies of Abuse Pt 1

Post author By White Zulu
Post date August 2, 2013
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Sad as it is to write about these things, they occur so commonly in SA society (and in the media) that NOT to write about them would be like praising the Emperor’s new clothes. So. Abuse. The English word is derived from Latin – abutor has two basic meanings: “to use up any thing, to […]

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