Publications

Publication details [#48943]

Mpolweni, Nosisi Lynette. 2008. The Importance of the Original: Challenges in Interpreting a Xhosa Testimony Before the South African TRC. Journal of multicultural discourses 3 (3) : 221–232.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | interpretation | testimony | transcription system | translation

Language as a subject

Xhosa

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper reviews Mrs Konile's 'strange' testimony in the Gugulethu Seven incident before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commissionseems. It returns to Mrs. Konile's original testimony in isiXhosa, to explore what got changed during the translation, transcription an interpretation processes.