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Ngeso likaVolovolo (through the Eye of the Revolver)

This is a column in Isolezwe Newspaper, written by Volovolo Memela. He has a crazy style of writing, and is usually very amusing (and sometimes a bit harsh and biting, in the way of all satire).

Today’s Ngeso likaVolovolo had the following headline:

Ningabhubhudli imali ngoKhisimusi nibhave ngobhiya bese sinibona ngoJanuwari seniphashile!

When translated, this comes out as:

Don’t y’all drink down your money inordinately at Christmas, bathing in beer so then we see you in January all dusty and grey like a formerly wet hide drying in the sun!

🙂

By White Zulu

Umtoliki, umlobi, imbongi, umcwaningi nomqoqi wezakudala, eneziqu zeMasters ngeClassics, okanye esekhuluma izilimi eziyisikhombisa.
Translator, writer, poet, researcher, cook and collector of arcana, with a Masters in Classics and (so far) seven languages under my belt.

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