%0 Journal Article
%T EATING THE LOUSE AND ITS LARVA! THE INDIGNITY OF POVERTY AS EMBEDDED WITHIN SELECTED AFRICAN AND OLD TESTAMENT PROVERBS
%A Madipoane Masenya
%J Scriptura
%D 2013
%I Stellenbosch University
%R 10.7833/111-1-27
%X Go hloka le pudi ya leleme le letala, ie, to lack even a green-tongued goat, is an African idiom which reveals extreme poverty for one who lacks such a goat. Such a person ˇ°eats a louse and uses its larva as relish!ˇ± From the wisdom literature of African peoples, it becomes evident that even in pre-colonial Africa, poverty stared some in the eye. Similarly, some Old Testament scholars argue for a popular setting of the Book of Proverbs. Using the Marikana incident as a hermeneutical lens to show the indignity of poverty, I argue in this article that to be poor, is to be deprived of human dignity. Selected Northern Sotho/Pedi and Old Testament proverbs will also be used to show the indignity of living in poverty.   doi: 10.7833/111-1-27
%K Book of Proverbs
%K Northern Sotho/Pedi proverbs
%K Poverty
%K Marikana Mineworkers and Human Dignity
%U http://scriptura.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/27