I have more than a year in Pretoria and let me admit I have grown fonder of the Afrikaners. My perceptions about this community or group was informed by the historical framework and as a boy who grew up in the township I was taught songs like Dubl’ibhunu and Umama uyajabula uma ngishaya ibhunu. This […]
It is June; expect the pictures of ntate Hector Peterson and ntate Mbuyisa Makhubu and opinions about the youth of today. The June 16 riots will be shifted from being a linguistic rights movement into being an act of determination against apartheid. I bet some of you, young like me do not even know why […]
My Easter weekend was seriously ruined by the Heads of the court, when I read from the article that they decided to re-anglicise the Justice system of our Democratic South Africa. I thought ukuhlanya-ke kodwa lokhu (utter craziness)! Seriously, now why must people sit and deliberate and decide to recolonise us. This is clearly the […]
Ngaleli langa lomgubho wamalungelo abantu ake ungiphe isithuba ngibuze ukuthi nempela la malungelo okukhulunywa ngawo isizwe sikaMamonga woSuthu simaphi na. Ingabe nempela sinalo ilungelo lokuba ngamaZulu aphila ubuZulu nakhuluma isiZulu na? Ulimi yilo kuphela oluhlukanisa abantu nezinye izidalwa zikaMenzi ngaphansi komthunzi welanga. Phela yilo ulimi esikwazi ukudluliselana ngalo imicabango, amasu futhi sifundisane nesimilo. Uma-ke […]
It is hard to be an isiZulu speaker in the Democratic South Africa. This week I was reminded how insignificant I am and how my language does not matter despite that it is the official language of the Republic. The National Consumer Tribunal sent me a letter that in its totality can be summed up […]
I pen this after the January 8 statement; I cannot react to the statement because much as I wanted to be glued in front of the telly and hear uMkhulu Gedle delivering this statement, the company of the young fellows I kept at kwaHlabisa was far greater than listening to the old man trying to […]
I say this in English, for us the majority were forced and still are forced to adopt English as our thinking language through the Education system that is pro-English. We are not able to read a two paged content-filled document written in our languages and comprehend it. Our levels of comprehension in our languages are […]
Yesterday I was at the mall and I happened to use the lifts. When I entered the lift I was amazed by the technological advancement I encountered. There is a voice that tells you that “you are in the first floor”. When the lift reached the second floor the voice announced again “you are in […]
Deny it or admit it, our government is pro-English and anti-African languages. The lack of intents to develop African languages is so explicit it cannot be denied. English is perceived as a unifying language. Unfortunately this is half-truth because in essence, it is the systemic tool for the exclusion of the African languages speakers in […]
Umculi odume umhlaba wonke womculo wamarasta iregeyi u-Bob Marley ucule amazwi athi “emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds” okuhunyushwa ngokuthi : zikhululeni nina ekugqilazweni ngokomqondo, akekho omunye ongakhulula imiqondo yethu ngaphandle kwethu. La mazwi ayisibikizelo esihle namuhla uma sikhuluma nomphakathi waseNingizimu Afrika ongamaZulu. Ukuvalwa kwemigudu eya empumelelweni ngesiNgisi kakusoze […]