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Selelekela

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Nkg. Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng (PhD) (1923–1957)

Bophelo ba hae bo bokgutshwane o ngotse dibuka tse tharo: Senkatana (1952), Leetong (1954), le Pelong ya ka (1962). Hape o ile a ngola mmoho le Profesa C.M. Doke buka e bitswang A Text Book of Southern Sotho Grammar (1967).

Selelekeleng sa buka ena, Senkatana, Mofokeng o ananela kgothaletso eo a ile a e fumana ho mosebetsimmoho le yena, Profesa Doke, ho ngola buka ena ka selemo sa 1945: ‘Mosebetsinyana ona ke o qadile ka yona nako eo. Ke thabile haholo ha e le mona bukana ena e hatiswa e le e nngwe ya tsa ‘pokello’ e leng matsohong a hae’.

Hape o ananela thuso a ileng a e fumana ho nkgekge ya puo ya Sesotho, Z.D. Mangoaela: ‘O badile mosebetsinyana ona pele o hatiswa mme a nthusa haholo ka ho kenya matshwao ao nna ke neng ke sa a kenya le ka ho fetola lentswe mona le mane’. Thuso ena e ne e hlokahala kaha e ne e le buka ya hae ya pele.

Jwalo ka ha a hlalositse selelekeleng, Senkatana ke tshomo ya ditjhaba tse ngata tsa Afrika. Ke tshomo e fetisitsweng ho mengwahengkgolo e mengata ka ho phethelwana. Mofokeng e ka nna yaba o e phethetswe ke nkgonwae, kaha ona e ne e le mosebetsi wa bonkgono.

Hore mmadi a utlwisisa tshwantshiso ena, ho bohlokwa ho tseba kamoo ditshomo di neng di phetwa mme a bapiswe le tsela eo Mofokeng a e phetang ka yona. E ka bapiswa le e ngotsweng ke moruti wa Mofora, Edouard Jacottet bukeng ya hae e bitswang Litšomo tsa Basotho Buka ea pele e hatisitsweng selemong sa 1908.

Tshomo ena ya Senkatana e pheta sebatahadi se neng se bitswa kgodumodumo se neng se metse batho le diphoofolo ntle le mosadi wa mokgatjhane a neng a belehe ngwana wa moshanyana mme a mo reha Senkatana. Ha moshanyana e se e le mohlankana, a bolaya kgodumodumo mme a pholosa batho le diphoofolo. Batho ba ne ba tletse teboho mme ba mo etsa morena wa bona. Empa nakwana kamora moo ba ile ba mmolaya. M.M.R. Dube (1996: 11) o hlahisa mohopolo wa momanolli wa dingolwa, P.R. S. Maphike ha etsa papiso e hlollang ya Senkatana le Kreste.

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Senkatana , pp. vii - xvi
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 1952

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