An anthropological investigation into the challenges that affect Xhosa traditional circumcision: a case of Mngqesha Village, Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
- Authors: Qegu, Mzukisi
- Date: 2018-06
- Subjects: Circumcision , Xhosa (African people)
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26683 , vital:65851
- Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges that affect Xhosa traditional circumcision in Mngqesha village. Mngqesha village is situated in Dimbaza, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. The study population employed random and purposive sampling to draw a representative sample of 25 research informants traditional leaders, traditional surgeons, traditional nurses, Initiates, elders of the community and Department of Health officials, each group was represented by five research informants from the population of this study. This study employed a mixed research approach. Questionnaires were distributed amongst research informants for quantitative purposes, and interviews were conducted for qualitative purposes, among the selected representative sample. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic analysis and was used to substantiate quantitative findings. The findings of this study prolonged on how injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates affect Xhosa Traditional Circumcision in Mngqesha village. The findings of this study divulge that carelessness amongst parents of initiates, dehydration, physical abuse and lack of proper screening of initiates have a tremendous contribution to injuries, diseases and high death rates of initiates in Mngqesha villages. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2018
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- Date Issued: 2018-06
People get ready
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical song , Bass guitar , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Popular music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105805 , vital:32571 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC097b-02
- Description: Xhosa urban topical song accompanied by bass guitar and steel pan drum
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Asking for money
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103014 , vital:32200 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC090a-09
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
What you tell me girl is not true
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Love songs , Bass guitar , Popular song , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105564 , vital:32535 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC096b-06
- Description: Xhosa urban love song accompanied by bass guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Lord our father
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101816 , vital:32038 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC086a-10
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Brother Joe
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Dance music , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103314 , vital:32232 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC091a-02
- Description: Dance song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Life is so strange without you
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Popular music , Love song , Bass guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105317 , vital:32499 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC096a-03
- Description: Xhosa urban love song accompanied by bass guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
She left me behind
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102985 , vital:32197 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC090a-07
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Mummy is a poor woman
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical song , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Bass guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106787 , vital:32722 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC101a-04
- Description: Topical song with bass guitar and steel pan drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Shine
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102911 , vital:32188 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC089b-18
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Wanted me to be a teacher
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical song , Organ music , Drum , Bass (Stringed instrument) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103414 , vital:32243 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC091a-13
- Description: Topical song with bass, drum and organ accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Come on lets dance
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/101658 , vital:32013 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC085b-13
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Children dancing together
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102976 , vital:32196 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC090a-06
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Title not specified
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Instrumental music , Bass guitar , Brass instrument music , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Popular music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106547 , vital:32672 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC099b-04
- Description: Xhosa urban instrumental bass guitar tune accompanied by steel pan drum and brass
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
People pass me by
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Music--Moral and ethical aspects , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103847 , vital:32313 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC092b-04
- Description: Moral song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Judy
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Love song , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103728 , vital:32291 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC092a-09
- Description: Love song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Ping-Pong
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Dance music , Organ music , Steel drum (Musical instrument) , Bass guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106760 , vital:32719 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC101a-01
- Description: Dance song with bass guitar, organ and steel pan drum accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
There is a bright light hanging above the horizon
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Dance music , Bass guitar , Drum , Organ music , Brass instrument music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/107167 , vital:32770 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC104a-02
- Description: Small dance band song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Organ sound
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Instrumental music , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102168 , vital:32079 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC087b-01
- Description: Instrumental music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987
Ever since
- Authors: Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Xhosa (African people) , Folk music -- South Africa , Topical songs , Guitar , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa South Africa Grahamstown f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/102231 , vital:32086 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC087b-08
- Description: Topical song with guitar accompaniment
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1987