uMabhengwaneUmtoliki, 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.
I have been recording podcasts about topics relating to Indigenous Knowledge Systems, as part of my work with South African Heritage Publishers and the Ancestral Voices Collection. I will be posting them here as they are finished. I hope that you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy recording them!
Kunezifayelo (phecelezi amapodcast) engisanda ukuqophela phansi. Nansi inganekwane kaNtombinde kaSikhulumi! Nginethemba lokuthi nawe uzoyijabulela.
This is another prompt from Moye, but was very apt to describe what happened last week in a virtual meeting. We sit at the end of a wireless connection, waiting for something interesting to happen in the TEAMS meeting. So far, it has definitely been a Focus Group. We are Focused on understanding Terminology. But […]
And When My Eyes Relaxed, They Looked to God This is another prompt from the wonderful folks at Moye Magazine. It was in Class 2 that I realised that I could change my view of reality simply by relaxing my eyes. I could split an object into two different pieces just by relaxing my eyes. […]
I’m writing for NaNoWriMo, using prompts from Moye Magazine. My plan is to write 30 different stories for this month, all in English (for a change). Enjoy. “Free Palestine! Free Haiti! Free Yemen! Free Tigray!” The shouting from the person on the corner underneath my study window, two stories down, had been going on for […]
Imagine something with me. There is a country which, much like many in the world, has many speakers of many languages. This country is a part of one of the many places in Africa colonised by Europeans since the 15th century. Over the 500 years since colonies of Europeans first touched its shores, only a […]
Yesterday, in therapy (because am broken, as should be obvious to anyone reading this) I didn’t start with any negative things or gripes or complaints – but I did end up talking about bridges. No, you idiot. Not the physical structure. It’s a metaphor. In this case, I am a bridge. In fact, I am […]
MGB I woke up, scrolled through Facebook (because I have now deleted Twitter, mostly because I spent years at institutions run by man-children with god-complexes and have no desire to willingly submit myself to the whims of yet another one), and there it was: “Gatsha is gone”. I haven’t yet messaged my father. I presume […]
a keynote presentation at the UniZul Conference on Sustainable Information representing: South African National Lexicography Units & South African Heritage Publishers For more information, you can visit http://www.saheritagepublishers.co.za or email info@saheritagepublishers.co.za. [greeting in isiZulu, explaining who I am and why I am here, and introducing the topic to everyone] Which word does one use for […]
Le yintandokazi yami yenkondlo. Ngithanda indlela iqhubeka ngayo, kusukela emehlweni kuya ezindlebeni, kungene olimini nasesifubeni. Ikhuluma ngamandla othando. Funda-ke uyijabulele. Ngumzamo wami wokuqala ukuhumushela isiGilikhi esiZulwini. φάινεταί μοι κῆνοσ ἴσοσ τηέοισινἔμμεν ὤνερ ὄστισ ἐναντίοσ τοιἰζάνει καὶ πλασίον ἀδυ φωνεύσασ ὐπακούει ibukeka kim’ injengothixo, noma yiph’ indod’ ebhekene nawe ehlez’ eduze nelimtot’ iphimbo lakho, elalele καὶ γαλαίσασ […]