Challenges in Developing & Empowering Indigenous Languages

After freedom and independence have been gained, one would expect redress and reconciliation with regard to injustices of the past. This has not been the case in South Africa. The dehumanisation, marginalisation and oppression of indigenous languages in the country continue unabated. This study briefly looks at the challenges in developing and empowering these languages, especially isiXhosa. Various attempts to encourage their use and improve their status are explored and some factors contributing their failure have been pointed out. Tentative recommendations and way forward have been offered. This book can be of great value to stakeholders who intend working on the indigenous languages of South Africa.

McKinstry's case is persuasive

Vorwort
The biography of the aeroplane that won the Battle of Britain, for the seventieth anniversary.

Autorentext

Mr Arthur Phumzile Sotashe is a member of staff African Languages at the University of South Africa. His interest is Language Policy and Planning as it affects isiXhosa. Other issues of his concern include decolonizing methodologies, indigenous methodologies, coloniality of language.

Zusammenfassung

In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.

The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the RAF that emerged triumphant, thanks to two key fighter planes, the Spitfire and the Hurricane. The Hurricane made up over half of Fighter Command's front-line strength, and its revolutionary design transformed the RAF's capabilities.

Leo McKinstry tells the story of the remarkable plane from its designers to the first-hand testimonies of those brave pilots who flew it; he takes in the full military and political background but always keeps the human stories to the fore - to restore the Hawker Hurricane to its rightful place in history.