Word: zulu
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...African National Congress Party of President Thabo Mbeki won 70% of the votes in national elections. The two-thirds majority gives the A.N.C. the power to change the constitution, though it says it will not do so. The white-led Democratic Alliance won 12%, while its coalition partner, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, got 7%. Support for the New National Party, the reconstituted former apartheid ruling party, collapsed, falling from 7% to less than 2%. MEANWHILE IN CANADA ... Drive Softly, Safely Researchers in Newfoundland have found that listening to loud, up-tempo music while driving slows motorists' reaction time...
English is the most widely used of South Africa's 11 official languages, but visitors are likely to encounter several regional tongues - Afrikaans in the Western Cape, Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, Zulu in KwaZulu-Natal, Sotho in the Free State - when traveling through the country. There's also a hybrid dialect called Fanagalo (do like this) that dates back to the days when black Africans were recruited for work in the white-owned Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits...
...Nkosi is focusing on language acquisition. “I speak Afrikaans, very bad Greek, bad French, bad Zulu,” she says. “I’m going to remedy at least the Greek and the Zulu in the next few years...
...addition to teaching languages widely-spoken in Africa such as Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa and Zulu every year, the department will respond to student interests to hire native speakers on an as-needed basis to teach African languages not currently offered. The teachers must have college degrees, and John M. Mugane, the director of the African Languages Program, will oversee the teachers to ensure accountability...
...program’s success is already apparent. To date, 12 students have requested an opportunity to take Igbo at Harvard, in addition to eight who want to study Twi and five who plan to take Zulu...