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23-716: Blouberg Municipality ( Northern Sotho : Mmasepala wa Blouberg ) is a local municipality within the Capricorn District Municipality , in the Limpopo province of South Africa , bordering Botswana . It takes its name from the Blouberg (literally meaning "blue mountain" in Afrikaans ), a mountain range located to the west of the western end of the Soutpansberg mountain range, north west of

46-460: A combination of immigrants from the north of South Africa and Sotho inhabitants of longer standing. Like other Sotho-Tswana people, their languages are named after totemic animals and, sometimes, by alternating or combining these with the names of famous chiefs. The group consists of the following dialects: The group consists of Lobedu , Narene, Phalaborwa (Malatji), Mogoboya, Kone, Kgaga, Pulana , Pai, Ramafalo, Mohale and Kutswe. Northern Sotho

69-753: A derivative of Tswana ), have acquired clicks in an ongoing process of such sounds spreading from Nguni languages . Some examples of Northern Sotho words and phrases: amogela ( tshelete/.../...)? Universal Declaration of Human Rights Temana 1 Batho ka moka ba belegwe ba lokologile le gona ba na le seriti sa go lekana le ditokelo. Ba filwe monagano le letswalo mme ba swanetše go swarana ka moya wa bana ba mpa.   Temana 2 Mang le mang o swanetše ke ditokelo le ditokologo ka moka tše go boletšwego ka tšona ka mo Boikanong bjo, ntle le kgethollo ya mohuta wo mongwe le wo mongwe bjalo ka morafe, mmala, bong, polelo, bodumedi, dipolitiki goba ka kgopolo, botšo go ya ka setšhaba goba maemo, diphahlo, matswalo goba maemo

92-509: A mangwe le a mangwe.   Go feta fao, ga go kgethollo yeo e swanetšego go dirwa go ya ka maemo a dipolitiki, tokelo ya boahlodi, goba maemo a ditšhabatšhaba goba lefelo leo motho a dulago go lona, goba ke naga ye e ipušago, trasete, naga ya go se ipuše goba se sengwe le se sengwe seo se ka fokotšago maemo a go ikemela ga naga ya gabo. Alexander Merensky Alexander's mother, Pauline von Kessel, died during his birth, and his father, Conrad Albert Friedrich, seven years later, in 1844. He

115-402: A mill were built, allowing nearby villagers and members of the congregation to learn these skills. In 1873 Merensky was joined by another BMS missionary, Johannes Winter , when he came to South Africa from Berlin to commence his missionary work. Within a few years he would become the head of the national helpers' ( Nationalhelferen ) seminary at Botshabelo, and later played an important role in

138-521: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Northern Sotho language Sesotho sa Leboa is a Sotho-Tswana language group spoken in the northeastern provinces of South Africa , most commonly in Mpumalanga , Gauteng and the Limpopo provinces. It is also known by Pedi or Sepedi and holds the status of an official language in South Africa . An official language for

161-421: Is mostly used in language reference books. Some word prefixes, especially in verbs, are written separately from the stem. Within nasal consonant compounds, the first nasal consonant sound is recognized as syllabic. Words such as nthuše "help me", are pronounced as [n̩tʰuʃe] . /n/ can also be pronounced as /ŋ/ following a velar consonant. Urban varieties of Northern Sotho, such as Pretoria Sotho (actually

184-513: Is one of the Sotho languages of the Bantu family. Although Northern Sotho shares the name Sotho with Southern Sotho , the two groups also have a great deal in common with their sister language Setswana. Northern Sotho is also closely related to Setswana , sheKgalagari and siLozi . It is a standardized dialect, amalgamating several distinct varieties or dialects. Northern Sotho is also spoken by

207-688: The Balobedu . Sepulana ( also sePulane ) exists in unwritten form and forms part of the standard Northern Sotho. Sepulana is spoken in Bushbuckridge area by the MaPulana people. Sepedi is written in the Latin alphabet. The letter š is used to represent the sound [ ʃ ] ("sh" is used in the trigraph "tsh" to represent an aspirated ts sound). The circumflex accent can be added to the letters e and o to distinguish their different sounds, but it

230-679: The Lebowa homeland during apartheid , it is the first language of over 4.6 million (9.1%) people according to the South African National Census of 2011 , making it the 5th most spoken language in South Africa. According to Chapter 1, Section 6 of the South African Constitution, Sepedi is one of South Africa's 12 official languages. There has been significant debate about whether Northern Sotho should be used instead of Pedi. The English version of

253-598: The South African Republic (ZAR) , where he and Grützner established the important mission station of Botshabelo , the Northern Sotho ( Sepedi ) word for "place of refuge". On the hill overlooking Botshabelo, a fort was erected which Merensky called "Fort Wilhelm" (later known as Fort Merensky ) in honour of the German kaiser. During 1869 a blacksmith's shop, a workshop to build and repair wagons and

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276-631: The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. [1] The Northern Sotho written language was based largely on the Sepedi dialect. Missionaries studied this dialect the most closely and first developed the orthography in 1860 by Alexander Merensky , Grutzner, and Gerlachshoop. This subsequently provided a common writing system for 20 or more varieties of the Sotho-Tswana languages spoken in

299-738: The Mohlala people. Most Khelobedu speakers only learn to speak Sepedi at school, such that Sepedi is only their second or third language. Khelobedu is a written language. Lobedu is spoken by a majority of people in the Greater Tzaneen, Greater Letaba, and BaPhalaborwa municipalities, and a minority in Greater Giyani municipality, as well as in the Limpopo Province and Tembisa township in Gauteng . Its speakers are known as

322-443: The South African Constitution lists Sepedi as an official language, while the Sepedi or Northern Sotho version of the Constitution of South Africa lists Sesotho sa Lebowa as an official South African language. South Africa's English Language policy refers to the eleven official languages of South Africa (i.e., Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and English), as specified in

345-752: The end of the war, Merensky was mistrusted by both the British and Boer authorities and decided to move back to Germany with his family in 1882. In 1883 he was promoted to Inspector of the Berlin Missionary Society. In 1890 he travelled to Southern Africa again, this time to the northern shore of Lake Njassa (now known as Lake Malawi in Malawi ) in the area called Kondeland. Here he founded two further mission stations, Wangemannshöhe (named after BMS Director Hermann Theodor Wangemann ) and Manow. Being interested in geography, he later also published

368-828: The establishment of the Lutheran Bapedi Church when it seceded from the BMS. The British annexed the Transvaal Republic in 1876 and Sir Wolseley made Botshabelo his headquarters in the Transvaal. During the First Anglo-Boer War , Merensky was conscripted to the Boer forces as military medic. He took part in the battles of Laing's Nek , Skuinshoogte and Majuba Hill and described the battles viewed from afar from his field hospital. After

391-467: The former Transvaal, and also helped lead to "Sepedi" being used as the umbrella term for the entire language family. However, there are objections to this synecdoche by other Northern Sotho dialect speakers, such as speakers of Modjadji's Lobedu dialect. Northern Sotho can be subdivided into Highveld -Sotho, which consists of comparatively recent immigrants mostly from the west and southwest parts of South Africa, and Lowveld -Sotho, which consists of

414-719: The mission station Gerlachshoop, the first mission station of the Berlin Missionary Society north of the Vaal River. Merensky was ordained as missionary in Gerlachshoop on 11 January 1861. A further mission station, Kgalatlou/ Schoonoord , was dedicated in August 1861. On 15 October 1863 Merensky was married to Marie Liers from Breslau. Seven children were born to this union, one of whom was the well-known geologist, Hans Merensky . They lived in Kgalatlou until May 1864 and with

437-640: The permission of Sekhukhune , the leader of the Bapedi , founded the mission station Ga-Ratau, approximately 15km from the Bapedi capital. This station was dedicated in May 1864. However, shortly thereafter the first persecutions of the Christians started and Merensky had to flee with his family and congregation on the night of 23 November 1864. In January 1865 Merensky bought a farm in the district of Middelburg in

460-502: The total number of party representatives is proportional to the number of votes received. In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of thirty-three seats on the council. The following table shows the results of the election. 23°08′21″S 29°00′05″E  /  23.1392°S 29.0013°E  / -23.1392; 29.0013 This Limpopo location article

483-417: The town of Vivo . Blouberg is home to some of the most spectacular rock climbing in South Africa. The rock climbing destination is famous for its big wall natural climbing with route lengths up to 350m. The vegetation ranges from sub-tropical savanna at the base, to alpine near the summit. According to the 2001 census conducted by Statistics South Africa, the population of the greater Blouberg municipality

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506-429: Was 161,314, of whom 99.4% are African, 0.5% white, 0.1% Coloured and 0.1% Asian. The 2001 census divided the municipality into the following main places : The municipal council consists of forty-four members elected by mixed-member proportional representation . Twenty-two councillors are elected by first-past-the-post voting in twenty-two wards , while the remaining twenty-two are chosen from party lists so that

529-558: Was therefore orphaned early in life and grew up in the well-known Schindler orphanage and among relatives. Encouraged by the well-known Rev. Gustav Knak, he entered the mission seminary of the Berlin Missionary Society in 1855 and was sent out on 23 November 1858. Together with a fellow missionary, Karl-Heinrich Theodor Grützner, he travelled by sailboat from Amsterdam to Cape Town and on to Natal. On 14 August 1860, he and fellow missionary Heinrich Grützner co-founded

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