Headline from pg 6 of today’s Isolezwe Newspaper: Bazalela ukuthola imali yeqolo: ucwaningo Translated, this means: They have kids to get welfare money: research Now, apart from the obviousness of this headline, there’s an interesting bit of linguistics, and specifically metonymy. iqolo is ‘the small of the back; the lumbar region’ – so imali yeqolo […]
