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Judgement day. Christians believe in it, particularly poor Christians.  Millionaires are too busy enjoying the life money buys, to worry about after-death dinner parties in heaven. The internet is also unique as a judgement forum because it bypasses lower courts and zooms to the supreme court. It is also the most lethal revenge weapon because it destroys lives. When love turns sour, some women are on record for, ‘I’ll destroy him on social media . ’ Judgement was here long before the internet. It will always be here because of opposites. Right and wrong. Judges are guided by law of the land found in big books and precedents, especially in English common law, but not human beings. The judge is right, the judge-ee is wrong. Judges are right because of their lives which they want to impose on others.  A common example is church. Friends that don’t go to church are not living right. That’s someone’s judgement. Worse still, are judges that used to do unconventional things with their bodies

E-Swazini is a royal kingdom near South Africa. King Mswati has more than 13 wives. I was shocked the first time I learned about wedding registries. A colleague was getting married and she told us to buy gifts from a particular store, and it wasn’t a dollar store. What happened to: it’s the thought that counts? I gave her money because I could not afford that particular store. Things were not like that back in the day, in Africa where every tradition had a reason. Ukucimela Let me break it down for you. Ukucimela  was like what you call a wedding shower, but the bride-to-be travelled far and wide to her mother’s family and friends to collect gifts. These were gifts she would use in her married life, in her own house. I’m saying her own because in traditional Africa people did not live in one-room apartments on the 20 th  floor and terrace houses, like those in the television series Coronation Street . A new bride was marrying a man who already had other wives and they all lived togethe

Plastic has replaced grass. It's called 'development'.   Lu-ka  has three meanings in Zulu, if I remember correctly. l  Braid hair l  Make anything from grass like sitting mats and meat mats l  Boys taking animals out to graze at the crack of dawn Braiding hair is well-known, what isn’t is the importance of grass in rural parts of the world. In Africa, kids make toys from nature, like grass ropes to play jump rope. Slaves took the game to the U.S. and it’s very popular up to this day. Lu-ka  is making household objects from grass like sleeping and sitting mats, amacansi . Girls engaged to be married used to go to relatives to collect gifts ( ukucimela ), and these mats were top of the list. In urban South Africa, this practice has been replaced by expensive blankets. Lu-ka:  You say the first part as Lulu, the second like U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. ZULU ENGLISH Ba-luka amacansi. They are making grass mats. Ngi-luka amavovo. I’m making strainers to strain isi-Zulu (Z

Online pic.   Escape is ‘sinda ’ in Zulu. 'Sindisa'  is to help people escape, save them so to speak. Horrific road accidents, but some people escape miraculously.  The language even has a proverb for a narrow escape and someone would say:  nga-sinda ngo-kulambisa . If men got pregnant there would be less war. They don’t care about consequences for women: rape, murder and displacement. Sometimes parents are killed but kids escape and become homeless orphans. The job situation was precarious even before Covid-19. Some workers lost their jobs, others escaped layoffs, also called retrenchment. Christians say Jesus helps people escape from sin. They call him the saviour: umsindisi. Si-nda.  You say the first part like sin the second one like Linda. Si-ndi-sa . You say the first part like sink, the second like indie, the last like sun. ZULU ENGLISH Nga-sinda ngo-kubaleka. I escaped because I ran. Ba-sinda ngo-kucasha. They escaped by hiding. Nizo-sinda uma ningakhulumi. You’ll escap

Lakers player Kyle Kuzma. Say kusasa as in Kuzma, soft 'k'.   Tomorrow is ku-sa-sa in Zulu. It also means future. We used to be sure about tomorrow although it depended on the weather, the bus being on time, the plane landing safely, the bridge not collapsing or surviving people texting while riding bicycles on the pavement. Not anymore. COVID-19 suspended all that. We’re up in the air about many things but there’s still hope for tomorrow, despite all the debt we wear like a second skin. Ku-sa-sa . You say the first part like LA Lakers player Kyle Ku zma, soft 'k', and the last two like some. ZULU ENGLISH Uzofika nini? When will you arrive? Kusasa. Tomorrow. Umama uzofika nini? When will mother arrive? Kusasa. Tomorrow. U-Thami uzofika nini? When will Thami arrive? Kusasa. Tomorrow. I-kusasa kala ziwa. Nobody knows about tomorrow. Aka nalo ikusasa. She has no tomorrow. No future. Ngibekela ikusasa lezingane zam. I’m saving for my kids’ future. Kusasa siyo-vota. We are g

Barack Obama, 44th and first black U.S. President. Never is ‘ngeke’ in Zulu, a language spoken in South Africa. There’s even a proverb: the sun will fall down and be picked up by chickens. Now you know that it will never happen. 2020 will be remembered for things we never imagined would happen. 1.  A virus so lethal it forced the whole world to stop work and school, going to basketball, baseball, soccer, and rugby games, carnivals, churches, concerts, sea cruises etc. 2.  Donald Trump, the 45 th  U.S. President claimed his election victory was stolen from him. 3.  A domestic terror insurrection by Trump supporters when they stormed Congress on 6 January 2020, while the full session was certifying that Joe Biden is the winner of the election. Nge-ke.  You pronounce the first part as in Sere nge ti, the second one as in Keke Palmer, the American actress. ZULU ENGLISH Ngeke ngi-kushade. I’ll never marry you. Ngeke u-ngi-bulale. You’ll never kill me. Ngeke a-ngi-shiye umkami. My wife will

Loretta Devine as Dear Baby in the movie Funny Valentines. South has unique baby names. Movie:  Funny Valentines Director:  Julie Dash It’s just a movie but the characters are like termites, lunching on my brain every awake moment. It’s just a movie but ….. but: 1.  Can you love someone for 30 years? 2.  My kind of story. Not a single plastic Hollywood I love you  declaration, but love permeates the whole movie, making me delirious s every time I recall how he looks at her. 3.  Cousins that are sisters. Whole town knows, but not the two women. 4.  Mental illness not detected because the other cousin/sister is rich. 5.  Kids that realize that there’s no love between mom and dad. 6.  Cousins who can buy anything but are extremely unhappy. Or is it sisters? 7.  Money. What is the value? Who determines value? 8.  Vietnam vets. What happened over there? Nobody asks. Vets never tell. 9.  Rich New York kids who don’t respect mom because she’s always been pitiful, never stood up for herself to