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incwadinsuku / daily blog

Three month hiatus

Kade sagcinana! Mehlo madala! It’s been too long since I last wrote anything on here. All that I’ve been able to connect with are a few glances at analytics every now and then, but no writing. And it’s not because I haven’t had things to write about! It’s rather that I haven’t had the headspace […]

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izinkumbulo / memories

izibongo zikaShaka (lines 1 – 43)

This is an experiment. I have been translating these and working with them for a while now, with my grade 7s and 10s. They are my favourite pieces of oral literature, and an anchor to many memories of September in KwaDukuza. They are the praises of uShaka kaSenzangakhona. These are my translations (and alternatives and […]