Word: shangaan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talk, the retreating form of an older man in a gray coat walking hastily down the road in the direction of the police station catches their eye. "He's a Shangaan," explains the other man, who gives his name as Sidney. (Shangaans are a South African ethnic group also found in Mozambique, and a number of them have been victimized during the anti-immigrant violence.) "Maybe he was going to see if he could rescue some of his stuff. If they see him here, they can kill him now. You can see he's afraid...
Once known as Libertas, the presidential mansion in Pretoria is now officially named Mahlamba'ndlopfu (Dawn of a New Era) in Shangaan. The Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region, South Africa's industrial heart, is now simply called Gauteng (Place of Gold) in Sotho. The Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (named for the architect of apartheid) has become the Gariep Dam, gariep being an ancient African word for wilderness...
Empty Pedestals. A parade and a state banquet completed the festivities in the capital, which is expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or "Place of Phumo," after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques founded the city in 1545 and gave his name to it. Most city streets, named for Portuguese heroes or important dates in Portuguese history, will have their names changed soon. Already missing from the capital's broad, flag-festooned boulevards are dozens of statues erected in colonial days to honor such Portuguese explorers...
...also speaks Afrikaans, Sesuto, Xosa, Sechuana, Shangaan and English...
| 1 |