Tsonga

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) Rafael Nadal found out what Australian Open fans already knew: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is for real.

Day 11: Nadal thumped; women's final all set 2008

For his instruction in Tsonga/Shangaan and his critical role in introducing me to the Antioka Presbyterian Church (formerly Swiss Mission) community in Facazisse, I will forever be grateful to the Reverend Fernando Khosa.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Note 19: In present-day Mozambique, Tsonga is considered an umbrella category for three sub-groupsShangaan, Ronga, and Tswaeach of which is officially recognized as a distinct language and ethnic identity.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Many women used the term Shangaan ( "MuChangana"), with which Tsonga is commonly interchanged, although even this answer was rarely straightforward.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

- Radio TNT (Technikon Northern Transvaal), which is a youth based station serving students and various tertiary institutions outside Pretoria and broadcasts on 96.2 MHz in English, Tsonga,

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

46 Lawton attributed the broad vessel-type similarities and shared ceramic terminology across Tsonga and Chopi groups (as well as reflections in Tsonga and Chopi work of Sotho, Venda, Lemba and Ndau ceramic styles) to "the fact that, unlike the Nguni, they do not form closely-knit tribal units, and are therefore more susceptible to outside influence," and to their having lived in "such close contact for many years."

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

English, the five cent coin Tsonga and the two cent coin Venda.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

In these discussions, the "Tsonga" appearprincipally by virtue of their scarification practicesto have infinitely plastic (hence, in imperial eyes, innately weak) cultural and political identities.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Not only did "Tsonga" women generally decorate their skins more elaborately than did their menfolk (the women, according to Junod, being "more desirous still of personal adornment" 17).

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

On the basis of such adolescent practices (still popular) as labia elongation, Henri A. Junod speculated that female age-sets may have existed among the "Tsonga" in "former" times, but concluded that they had entirely disappeared by the late nineteenth century.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005