Today I bring you the news (or the headlines, at any rate), for Wednesday’s Isolezwe (with a points system, as explained before. Front Page: Awalokothwanga amagama ezikhulu kukhishwa okaManase (25pts) 2nd Page: Zinswinyiwe izinhlelo zodado kuSABC (25 pts) 3rd Page: Kubibiyelwe amahlazo kokaManase ofingqiwe (15 pts) 4th Page: Kusinde ingane indoda iklabha unkosikazi wayo (10 […]
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Yesterday’s Isolezwe headlines
Being in Gauteng is sometimes a big disadvantage. Struggling up from the other side of the Linksfield Ridge before the sun had done anything but paint the road red, I arrived at the petrol station in Cyrildene. I went to the usual spot, picked it up, and realised – it was Isolezwe langoMsombuluko (noma lezolo, […]
I woke to tea and grief and dream-conversations, once Ikhwezi lokusa had pulled at me in the pale blue of the dawn, as the Moon decayed brightly opposite her. In the crispness of the courtyard. Millicent the pig was happy to see me – though I suspect that she would have been happy to see anything […]
Wednesday morning, 15 minutes free in the middle of it, and the following pops into my inbox: Client I require a 30 word document translated from Zulu to English Are you available? Me Yes, I’m available. By when do you need it? Client We require it in the next few hours Me the cost would […]
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Nhlolanja’s Locum Lesson
My old boss called me at 5 on a Friday morning. It just so happened that Friday is usually my regrouping day. And he needed a locum teacher for isiZulu. So I drove through the morning sunlight and airiness of Killarney, avoiding the solid metal mash of the M1, and up to the gates of […]
What kept the owl quiet these past four weeks? Why were there no bits and pieces of linguistic weirdness occasionally scattering across your screen? ngenxa yomsebenzi-nje. because of work. Which is a good thing. uMasingana, the isiZulu name for this month, relates to the verb singa, meaning ‘to look about, to peer out of a […]
Listening to Mr Magic, Linda Sibiya, this morning – he was making an appeal to people not to transport pots and packages and blankets inside the taxis, and that they should use trailers instead. He then began to describe what sort of things bring into taxis – the big pots, the blankets, squeezing in beside […]
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