This study has sought to explore the pretexts of identity crisis in post-colonial (South) Africa through the prism of Kopano Matlwa`s novels. It has used a qualitative research design to dissect the pretext of identity ...

Reading Comprehension (RC) is a challenge faced by many first entering English language students at Historically Black Universities (HBUs) in South Africa (SA), especially those who went to public schools. RC appears ...

The “images of women” school of feminist critics is particularly concerned with how women are represented in fictional texts. Feminists are generally not satisfied with stereotyping of women as done in traditional fictional ...

In rural South Africa (SA), poor reading comprehension skills in English First Additional Language (EFAL) are still found to be the main cause of poor academic achievement. For learners to comprehend the target language ...

This study will examine the position of traditional African women as explored in the fictions, The Joys of Motherhood (Buchi Emecheta) and So Long a Letter (Mariama Bâ). It will probe into the depiction of a traditional ...

The prime goal of this study is to explore, form and analyse the semantic content of compound words in Sepedi. The study used the qualitative method. Data were collected using participant observations from various ...

This study explores written grammar errors committed by UL first entering non-native English language students. The problem is that the standard of English among nonnative English language students does not seem to improve ...

Interlanguage (IL) is a phenomenon that occurs in different language learning contexts including institutions of Higher Education (HE) were English is used as a language of tuition in South Africa (SA). This study researched ...

Some research has been done on the intellectualisation of African languages. However, African languages are still not used enough in academia; in fact, they are undermined. They need to be developed into languages of ...