Department of African Languages

Dr EN Nzimande (IsiZulu)

College of Human Sciences
School of Arts
Department: African Languages
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 012 484 1467
E-mail: nzimaen@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in African Languages and Linguistics Witwatersrand 2011
  • BA Honours in African Languages University of Pretoria 2014
  • MA in African Languages University of Pretoria 2017
  • PhD Translation Studies Univerisity of South Africa 2022

Currently teaching

  • African Languages
  • isiZulu
  • ZUL1505
  • AFL1501
  • AFL3703
  • AFL4802
  • HRAFL81

Fields of academic interests

  • Grammar/Linguistics
  • Translation Studies
  • Corpus Studies
  • Lexicography
  • Terminology Studies

Field of Specialisation

  • Grammar/Linguistics
  • Translation Studies
  • Corpus Studies

Journal articles

  • Domestication versus Foreignisation in the English Translation of Mthembu’s UManazane, in Language Matters Journal, Vol. 49 (1)

Paper presentations

  • Paper entitled ‘Domestication versus foreignisation in the English translation of Mthembu’s UMamazane’, during the Thetha Sizwe Conference held at University of Pretoria in 2018.
  • Paper entitled ‘The hurdle of translating idioms: translating Mthembu’s UMamazane into English’, during the ALASA Conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2018.

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

  • IsiZulu Adjudicator for National Library of SA

Other

  • DAL Community engagement