My name is Carolyn Moore. I am a university student currently
enrolled in an Afrikaans class. I have spent some time in South
Africa before so I've had some first hand experience with the peoples
and cultures of South Africa but I would like to know some individual
views and perceptions of the Afrikaans language. I would appreciate
any feedback you can give me on this subject to the following:
My name is Carolyn Moore. I am a university student currently
enrolled in an Afrikaans class. I have spent some time in South
Africa before so I've had some first hand experience with the peoples
and cultures of South Africa but I would like to know some individual
views and perceptions of the Afrikaans language. I would appreciate
any feedback you can give me on this subject to the following:
Jy vra ek moet na jou jong borste kyk
wat vol en vas en plooiloos soos 'n duif
se krop nog span en julle vergelyk.
Ja, ek proe snags die soetheid van die druif
in jou en al jou wysheid is 'n tent
tussen die wind en my; maar in die verre
jare toe ek eensaam was en onbekend
onder miljoene wat nou volg, en sterre
met die waarheid inflikker op my oë
maar ek nog skaam was vir my woord, het sy
eerste en jare lank alleen geglo
dat ek geroepe is... Tog, hoe kan jy,
nog nie gerimpel of geryp deur pyn,
ooit weet die soetste druif is half rosyn.
> Die weermag onder die vorige bestel?
>
> Uit Beeld.
>
> "Suid-Afrika se chemiese en biologiese program bestaan glo minstens
> sedert 1976.
> "Die dweld Mandrax is na bewering kort nadat die
> Soweto-opstande van 1976 begin het, op groot skaal op groot skaal
> onder swart leerlinge versprei om hulle weerstand af te breek en hulle
> "gedienstig" te maak.
> "Beeld verneem dat dit 'n projek van die ou Weermag se
> Militere Intelligensie (MI) was. Daar is gister voorts aan Beeld
> beweer dat die ou Veiligheidspolisie in die laat tagtigerjare 'n
> soortgelyke dwelmprojek gehad het waarin onder meer Mandrax teen
> politieke vyande gebruik is."
>
Let op na die woorde: bestaan glo, na bewering, voorts - - beweer, verneem
Hmm, so hoekom sukkel ek dan 'n bietjie om die storie te sluk? Ongelukkig gaan
die woorde verlore met die al riem telegramme wat oor die berig versprei sal
word. Volgende sal die nuusberig oor die radio dit as 'n feit berig.
Miskien is dit ook hoekom mense 'n probleem het met die TRC.
Ongesubstansieerde aanklagte word gemaak, maar nooit regtig bewys nie.
Cheers
Lou
PS: Kan Beeld nie bietjie iets aan hulle web blad doen nie, om elke dag
daardie Adobe Acrobat formaat leer af te laai is 'n pyn. Sien bv. die
Business Day, en Star se web blaaie.
Idioom : Om krokodiltrane te huil.
Ek het krokodiltrane gehuil toe ek hoor P.W. Botha
is nie meer President van Suid-Afrika nie.
To shed crocodile tears. Pretended grief. From the
old legend that crocodiles make weeping sounds
to attract victims and then shed tears while eating
them.
I was quite surprised to find this expression in the
Dictionary of American Idioms. I thought that they
would not use the word "crocodile," since they call the
varieties here "alligators." I was even surprised that
such an expression existed in English, because the
crocodile was surely not something that figured large
in the consciousness of the people of Europe. But I
was wrong. It is from the Middle English cocodril,
from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin croco-
dilus, from Greek krokodilos : "worm of the pebbles"
(from its habit of basking in the sun; kroke (pebbles)
drilos (worm). I guess even in ancient times the people
especially of Southern Europe and Egypt were aware
of the geography and the flora and fauna of especially
the northeastern part of Africa above the equator.
So ry die trein, so ry die trein,
die Kimberley se trein.
So ry die trein, so ry die trein,
die Kimberley se trein.
Hoor daar hoe stoom hy,
stoom hy, stoom hy,
opdraand en afdraand,
Kimberley se trein.
So : in this way, so
ry: ride, go
trein : train
hoor : hear
stoom : steam
opdraand : uphill
afdraand : downhill
hill : heuwel
Kimberley is the site of the biggest manmade hole
in the world. In the 1860's they found very large
diamonds there, like the 83 carat "Star of South
Africa." Cecil John Rhodes, a sickly young man
from England, became the wealthiest and most
powerful man in Africa because of these diamonds.
Barney Barnato, a boy from a London slum, became
a mining magnate and a multi-millionaire. One of
the farms, on which diamonds were found, was owned
by a farmet called De Beer. Rhodes bought that farm,
and called the firm he created "De Beers." This is still
one of the biggest players in the diamond industry in
the world. Today the firm is run by the Oppenheimers.
There are no high hills in the Kimberley region.
In fact, once the wife of a train driver told me that
her husband told her that on the stretch between De
Aar and Kimberley they put the train on automatic
pilot and go to sleep. It therefore always intrigued me
that this song should talk exclusively about the train
going uphill and downhill. My own private theory
is that the song originated with the population around
Cape Town, probably in the last century when the
diamond rush was on. In order to get, by train, from
Cape Town to Kimberley, you had to go up and down
quite steep mountains to get out of the Western Cape.
(That was before they made some tunnels through the
mountains.) But after that everything is very flat for
hundreds of miles, going through the semi-desert areas
of the Great Karoo and the northern Cape.
Of course, there are not only diamonds at Kimberley.
The Gariep (or Orange) River ate through the diamond-
bearing cone of an ancient volcano millions of years ago,
and washed some of these diamonds down stream. There
were therefore alluvial diamonds to be found along the
banks of the Orange river. At the mouth of the Orange
River they found large quantities of diamonds just buried
in the sand, ready to be picked up by the basketful. These
days they have to dig in the sand to get at them. They also
dredge the seabed at the mouth of the river to recover the
diamonds. This operation is in the hands of De Beers.
"Suid-Afrika se chemiese en biologiese program bestaan glo minstens
sedert 1976.
"Die dweld Mandrax is na bewering kort nadat die
Soweto-opstande van 1976 begin het, op groot skaal op groot skaal
onder swart leerlinge versprei om hulle weerstand af te breek en hulle
"gedienstig" te maak.
"Beeld verneem dat dit 'n projek van die ou Weermag se
Militere Intelligensie (MI) was. Daar is gister voorts aan Beeld
beweer dat die ou Veiligheidspolisie in die laat tagtigerjare 'n
soortgelyke dwelmprojek gehad het waarin onder meer Mandrax teen
politieke vyande gebruik is."
Meer besonderhede en die volledige program van die Klein Karoo
Nasionale Kunstefees op Oudtshoorn is nou op die Net beskikbaar: http://karoofees.com
As jy sukkel om daar kontak te maak, vat die lang pad: http://naspers.co.za en klik dan net op die Karoofees-knoppie
As u "een van die nuusgroep se mense" is, het u nou die geleentheid om te
oordeel oor kooos se vertolking van my weergawe van die geskiedenis.
Kooos het my (nie te beleefde nie) versoek om die volgende vraag te stel:
Vertolk u my weergawe van die geskiedenis op dieselfde manier as kooos?
(Sy vertolking verskyn hieronder.)
Indien wel, gee asseblief u naam.
Op 5 Februarie skryf kooos:
> Jy "hint" deurentyd na jou weergawe van die geskiedenis, wat vreemd
> genoeg deur meer as een van die nuusgroep se mense op dieselfde wyse
> gelees en geinterpreteer word.
Ek reageer:
Kooos vervolg:
In article fe...@is.co.za (Koos) writes:
> >
> 1. Verwoerd en Bhengu is nie te onderskei nie.
> 2. Die basis van apartheid was dat die NP geglo het hy weet beter
> wat goed is vir ander. Niks meer as dit nie.
> (Dis toevallig iets wat elke liewe regering op Gods aarde oortuig
> van is. En elke politieke party. En elke iemand wat 'n politieke
> argument voer.)
> > jy beweer. Dan vra ons hulle sommer openlik of hulle dit ook so sien.>>>
> Vra hulle self.
> Ek vertolk wat jy se as 'n agterdog-saaing teen die nuwe
> staatsbestel in SA en 'n toeverf van die gruwels van die vorige
> bestel.
> En 'n baie besliste poging om die bestel van die verlede gelyk te stel
> aan die bestel van vandag.
So, as u my weergawe van die geskiedenis op dieselfde manier vertolk as kooos,
gee asseblief u naam.
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