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Unbecoming American: Did Apartheid Really End in 1991?

Dissident Voice 10 Apr 2024
Thus its original ethnic base was diluted to establish a “white” nationalism while the “Bantu” majority was carefully segregated into language and tribal groups, later assigned by law to their own ...
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‘Pepe’ Review: A Footnote in the Pablo Escobar Saga Is Dreamily Reimagined as a Hippo’s ...

The Hollywood Reporter 20 Feb 2024
The title beast’s intermittent narration shifts at various points from Afrikaans to the Namibian Bantu language Mbukushu to Castilian, often accompanied by his fellow hippos grunting and mooing.
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Pool: Look both ways

The Moore County News Press 02 Jan 2024
He is particularly interested in the spread of the people who gave the world the Indo-European family of languages. One particularly informative posting described the dispersion of the Bantu peoples in Africa over the last two millennia ... ....
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Still making waves after 100 years

Mail Guardian South Africa 23 Dec 2023
One, I had an uncle who worked for a shipping company ... Radio Bantu first aired Zulu-language content in 1960. When FM was introduced in 1962, Radio Bantu was quickly expanded to include radio services in other indigenous South African languages ... ....
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9 people shot dead in South Africa

China.dot.org 17 Dec 2023
JOHANNESBURG, Dec ... As a result, eight people died instantly while the ninth one was certified dead on arrival at the hospital ... Both Xhosa and Sesotho are Bantu languages ... Enditem .
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‘An attack on Afrikaans’: Legal showdown looms after National Assembly passes controversial Bela Bill

Independent online (SA) 26 Oct 2023
– centralisation of power by the State and “a Bantu education-style policy that imposes a language of instruction on schools” ...The bill will disempower SGBs from determining admission and language policies.
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Ruth McGregor Elementary School to stage performances of 'The Lion King Kids' this week

Daily Telegram 25 Oct 2023
The show opens at 7 p.m. today ... Thursday, Oct ... At least four of the musical selections include words in the spoken language of Zulu, a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni branch spoken in southern Africa, that students needed to learn and comprehend.
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Tanzania seeks to broadcast AFCON 2023 in Swahili

China.dot.org 16 Oct 2023
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language spoken by the Swahili people ... the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund to introduce Swahili as a working language.
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Genetic Studies Rediscover Human Populations In Africa Thought To Be Lost

IFL Science 26 Sep 2023
Khoe language speakers survive in the ... The populations that once spoke Kwadi, before adopting Bantu languages in recent decades, are the missing piece in humanity’s jigsaw identified in this study.
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Playing football for just two years after fleeing the Congo, Messi Kalenda is already a ...

Grand Forks Herald 05 Sep 2023
Kalenda could speak three languages – French, Spanish and Lingala, a native Bantu language from the northwest of the Congo – but he didn’t know English well when he enrolled at East Grand Forks ... He mastered the language, then mastered football.
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What Catholic Church records tell us about America's earliest black history

The Times & Democrat 19 Aug 2023
... and that even as they learned Spanish, some of them still prayed and blessed themselves in their native language of Kikongo, a Bantu language spoken throughout large areas of West Central Africa.
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Hector Vila: Mzungu on Kigali streets

Addison County Independent 03 Aug 2023
Fixed on my feet, shoeless, it all seems too much to bear so the Rwandan will take a second look into my eyes—I smile and deliver a greeting, “Mwaramutse,” good morning in Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language and the national language of Rwanda.
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Mokele-Mbembe: The "Living Dinosaurs" People Thought Lived In The Congo

IFL Science 03 Aug 2023
It also goes by the name Mokele-Mbembe which translates to “one who stops the flow of rivers” in Lingala, a Central Bantu language that belongs to the Niger-Congo, which is the largest African languages phylum according to the ... Advertisement ...   ... .
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Why biological sex matters

New Statesman 26 Jul 2023
Language evolves, and many words change their meaning on a timescale of centuries ... Some Bantu languages such as Nyanja, the dominant language of my childhood home of Malawi, have many.
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