Unjani? Ngiyafunda isiZulu.
If you can read isiZulu you won’t need me to translate that.
For those of you who don’t, why don’t you do yourself a favour and learn the beautiful language that is isiZulu?
While studying at varsity, I registered for an isiZulu module for a year.
I scraped through the course, but fortunately, developed a keen interest to enhance my knowledge of the language (albeit it five years down the line) – which I am doing now.
Uzofunda isiZulu na?
In my line of work, I meet people of all races, languages and cultures.
Just the other day I received a phone call at the office from an isiZulu speaking woman.
Her English was well below par and I could barely make out a word she was saying.
Had I been able to speak her mother tongue, I would have been able to interview her myself.
Instead, I transferred her call to a colleague.
Another instance, which happened while I was still at school, still makes me laugh today.
I was at an inter high athletics meeting when two girls from a competing school were gossiping about their white teacher in isiZulu.
A white boy in my school, who could speak isiZulu, listened to the conversation and casually spoke back to the girls in isiZulu, much to their shock.
He told the teacher what the girls had said and needless to say, she took action against them.
The benefits of speaking an African language are endless.
Hambani kahle. KVDL
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