SUMMARY IN ENGLISH The question of aspect in the Bantu Languages has not as yet received due attention. The written grammars of such languages often refer to aspect as a phenomenon relative to the verb, but as a rule the aspects are then usually incorporated into what is termed tense or sometimes even time. In their, “Textbook of Southern Sotho Grammar”, Doke and Mofokeng distinguish between five ‘times’: present, immediate past, remote past, immediate future, remote future. Each of these times could distinguish between three implications: simple, progressive and exclusive. Finally each of the implications could again distinguish between three aspects: indefinite, continuous and perfect. This implies that a total of 45 tenses could ultimately be distinguished for the verb in the indicative mood alone. The complexity of the verb in Sotho in regard to tense becomes obvious when the other moods are also brought into play. I consider the Northern Sotho verb to be not so much a word denoting an action, as a word denoting a process of becoming, of being, or a process of a series of activities that could lead to a condition of being. The verb in Northern Sotho is therefore a word, which, besides showing certain phonological and morphological characteristics, also can refer to three phases of a process; viz. i. the stage at which the process is completed, resulting in a state of being;ii. the stage at which the process is still in progress, i.e. the state of incompletion or duration of the process;iii. the initiation of the process without referring to its completion or its duration. The verb merely refers to the process as a fact, without further qualification in regard to its completion or its continuation.