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Sihle Maso
Sihle is a Nguni given name meaning "beautiful". The name is a shortened form of Siphesihle which means "beautiful gift". Notable people with the name include: * Sihle Lonzi, South African politician * Sihle Zikalala (born 1973), South African politician {{given name Unisex given names Bantu-language given names South African given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguni Languages
The Nguni languages are a group of Bantu languages spoken in southern Africa (mainly South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini) by the Nguni people. Nguni languages include Xhosa, Tsonga, Ndebele, and Swati. The appellation "Nguni" derives from their ancestor called Mnguni type. ''Ngoni'' (see below) is an older, or a shifted, variant. It is sometimes argued that the use of ''Nguni'' as a generic label suggests a historical monolithic unity of the people in question, where in fact the situation may have been more complex. The linguistic use of the label (referring to a subgrouping of Bantu) is relatively stable. From an English editorial perspective, the articles "a" and "an" are both used with "Nguni", but "a Nguni" is more frequent and more correct especially if "Nguni" is pronounced as it is suggested (). Classification Within a subset of Southern Bantu, the label "Nguni" is used both genetically (in the linguistic sense) and typologically (quite apart from any histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siphesihle
Siphesihle or Sphesihle/S'phesihle is a unisex given name. The name means "beautiful gift". Notable people with the name include: * Siphesihle Dlamini (born 2002), South African soccer player * Sphesihle Maduna (born 1999), South African soccer player * Siphesihle Mkhize (born 1999), South African soccer player * Siphesihle Ndlovu (born 1996), South African professional soccer player * Siphesihle November (born 1998 or 1999), South African ballet dancer. * Siphesihle Ntuli, South African field hockey coach. * Siphesihle Punguzwa (born 1993), South African rugby union player * Sphesihle Zondi (born 1995), South African politician {{Given name Unisex given names Bantu-language given names South African given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sihle Lonzi
Sihle Lonzi (born 1997 or 1998) is a South African politician who has served as a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since November 2024, representing the Economic Freedom Fighters party, of which he led the party's student wing from 2022 until 2024. Background and political career Lonzi matriculated from the South African College Schools in Cape Town in 2015 where he served as head boy and played for the school's first rugby team. After matriculating, he went on to study economics and philosophy at the University of Cape Town where he became involved with the Rhodes Must Fall movement. He became allied with Sinawo Thambo and the two launched the EFF Students Command at the university. He served two terms on the UCT Student Representative Council and was the provincial spokesperson of the EFF Student Command. In July 2022, Lonzi was elected president of the EFF Students Command. Parliamentary career Following the resignation of Busisiwe Mkhwebane as an EFF Member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sihle Zikalala
Sihle Zikalala (born 6 August 1973) is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal who has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2023, representing the African National Congress. He was Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure from March 2023 to June 2024. Before his redeployment to the national government, he had been the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal and a Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature. He served as the 8th Premier of KwaZulu-Natal from 2019 until his resignation in 2022 and as the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress from 2015 to 2022. He has held various leadership positions in the ANC. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government. Early life and education Sihle Zikalala was born on 6 August 1973 in the town of Ndwedwe in Natal. He holds a Bachel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unisex Given Names
A unisex name (also known as an epicene name, a gender-neutral name or an androgynous name) is a given name that is not gender-specific. Unisex names are common in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States. By contrast, some countries have laws preventing unisex names, requiring parents to give their children sex-specific names. In other countries or cultures, social norms oppose such names and transgressions may result in discrimination, ridicule, and psychological abuse. Names may have different gender connotations from country to country or language to language. For example, the Italian male name '' Andrea'' (derived from Greek ''Andreas'') is understood as a female name in many languages, such as English, German, Hungarian, Czech, and Spanish. Parents may name their child in honor of a person of another sex, which – if done widely – can result in the name becoming unisex. For example, Christians, particularly Catholics, may give a child a second/middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bantu-language Given Names
The Bantu languages (English: , Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central, Southern, Eastern and Southeast Africa. They form the largest branch of the Southern Bantoid languages. The total number of Bantu languages is estimated at between 440 and 680 distinct languages, depending on the definition of "language" versus "dialect"."Guthrie (1967–71) names some 440 Bantu 'varieties', Grimes (2000) has 501 (minus a few 'extinct' or 'almost extinct'), Bastin ''et al.'' (1999) have 542, Maho (this volume) has some 660, and Mann ''et al.'' (1987) have ''c.'' 680." Derek Nurse, 2006, "Bantu Languages", in the ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', p. 2:Ethnologue report for Southern Bantoid" lists a total of 535 languages. The count includes 13 Mbam languages, which are not always included under "Narrow Bantu". Many Ntu languages borrow words from each other, and some are mutually intelligible. Some of the languages are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
