uMabhengwaneIn isiZulu, there is a specific verb for carrying something on your shoulder or head – ukuthwala. Somehow this verb is at the heart of the phrase titling this blog – the translation of the Stark House words “Winter is Coming”. Allow me to explain. Ukuthwala is derived from the Ur-Bantu word -tu denoting a […]
This is by no means a simple word route today (not that they ever are, really) – 23 separate derivations from the original stem, which itself has over 11 subtly different meanings. The history of the word is important – it’s derived from the ur-Bantu root -lûma, meaning ‘to roar’ and ‘to allow’. For its […]
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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