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Hi, wow man, you sound like a bit of a doos. Like Like. Hi ND Thanks for your comment. As I point out at the beginning of the post, it is a contemporary colloquial name, a term of endearment, if you will, and has no official standing except as a component of the isiXhosa name for SA, but that is largely besides the point here. Finally, would it really matter if the word were not of African origin? Mzansi is not from South africa and does not refer to SA where it has been mistakenly adopted in the 21st century.
The Mzansi people are the people of Zanzibar which joined with Tanganika to form TanZania in the s. It is an Arabic or Persion word use to describe the Island of Zanzibar which was the centre of the African slave trade. The word is used to describe what was the slave trade capital of Africa and the Indian ocean. The name of Zansi or Mzansi is older than years and is from a non.
African language. It should not be used to refer to SA for three good reasons: 1. It already refers to the island of Zanzibar and it is wrong to steal another nations name 2. The name has a dark history of oppression and slavery worse than apartheid 3. It is a non african word of Persion or Arabic origin. Any investigation or google will soon confirm these facts. There is no better name than south africa. I am reminded that the apartheid government also wanted to get rid of the name South africa because of its african connotation.
Their idea was to rename SA as the Pretoria republic. Similarly many right wingers denied they were South african insisting that they were Boers of the Boerevolk. South africa is finally rightfully South African connected irrevocably to Africa. Why change it to a name which beliitles south africans and is stolen from somewhere else? Like Liked by 1 person. That process — and subsequent offline sleuthing — led to the archives of the National English Literary Museum NELM , and has so far shown that the X-form, Mzantsi, occurs the earliest: Rampolokeng clearly has problems with the re?
Raditlhalo: 5 Raditlhalo uses the term again the following year: Some of his lines remind one powerfully of poets such as Mazisi Kunene, for it is on the multiple factor of mzantsi , however imperfect, that he keeps his gaze p. Thamm: 58 I realised that I could not allow my temper to rise, but if I were back home in Mzansi I would have slapped at least one of them. Khumalo: 83 Mzansi has Odysseus Huron, the multi-platinum selling producer behind No.
Source And here are some attributive uses that evidence the beginnings of a wider set of meanings: It was a syrupy gig to play bass for a big-time mzansi jazz outfit. Source In conclusion, the term Mzansi or Mzantsi as a stand-alone lexical item has been around for about two decades in these Z- and X-forms.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Mzansi. The book is aimed at local fans and tourists wanting to acquaint themselves with thesoccer culture at the southern tip of Africa"--Bookseller's website. Joe Latakgomo, One example of a successful basic no-frills account that increased used of formal financial services is the Mzansi account in South Africa. Mzansi is an entry-level bank account, based on a magnetic stripe debit card platform, developed by the Mzansi account holders were specifically chosen in this study to understand their perception toward mobile financial services and extrapolate these findings to the broader unbanked population.
Figure 6 is the result of the Kruskal-Wallis test to Arvind Ashta, In October , the Banking Council of SA announced the launch of the Mzansi account to meet the requirements of the Financial Sector Charter, which regulates the financial services industry. The FSC demanded urgent and far stronger Tashmia Ismail, Nicola Kleyn, While noting the success at signing up Oxford Business Group. King Adz, Mzansi Hospital located nexttooneof the oldest townshipsin Pretoria was a moderately big hospital accommodating a countless numbersof blackpatients from all overPretoria those years.
The overcrowdedand shortstaffed Mzansi Hospital had All that is required to open a Mzansi account is a valid ID number none of the other documents often required by banks to open an account that effectively exclude many poor people. Transactions are limited to deposits, withdrawals, transfers Indeed, Mzansi does charge significantly less for the individual transactions a consumer is able to carry out on the account but the range of transactions is limited; for example, the consumer cannot as yet make electronic payments by way of The new Hisense
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