Rear Animals in Zulu

Texas cattle ranching. Online pic.

To rear goats, chickens or horses is ‘fuya’ in Zulu.

Fu-ya, you pronounce the first part like food the second like yard.

Early humans kept animals for food, marriage ceremonies and for sacrifices to the gods. Some kept a few chickens in the yard, but went to the forest to trap large game which they cooked and dried. They used the skins as blankets, sleeping mats, clothes and roofing.

Large scale commercial farms rear animals for urban supermarkets and even export. The Thornbirds, an old television series, is set on a sheep farm in Australia run by an English family.

Fu-ya also means harboring people for dubious activities. The internet is a den of thieves, which includes stealing human beings for prostitution. It’s much easier now because women voluntarily post bare pictures online. Instagram ‘models’ are then recruited, kept in special houses and reared for the international trade.

Fu-ya can also be used to describe seeds planted by Donald Trump, former U.S. President. He is rearing a new kind of political thought: if you lose, the election was stolen.

ZULU	ENGLISH
U-Tim u-fuye izinja.	Tim rears dogs.
U-Anne u-fuye ama-hashi.	Anne rears horses.
Ngi-zofuya izinkukhu.	I will rear chickens.
Ba-funa u-ku-fuya izingulube.	They want to rear pigs.
Ba-fuya izimvu e-Australia.	They rear sheep in Australia.
Internet ifuya amasela.	The internet rears thieves.
Ba-fuya aba-bulali.	They rear murderers.
U-Donald Trump u-fuya amanga.	Donald Trump rears lies.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.