Zulu Lesson To Choose
The internet has many activities to choose from. It is a classroom to some and playground to others. Some women make the choice of flying to other parts of the world as escorts or to have fun with friends they know either personally or online. Some end up in the mortuary in foreign countries, and there are no leads to perpetrators because they did not tell anyone. It was their choice therefore, parents cannot expect the government to perform miracles for a risk. Social media glorifies such travel but women know it’s a risk, but they do it anyway.
Khetha means choose in Zulu. Some immigrants seem overwhelmed by the notion that kids in Canada and the U.S. have a choice especially girls, and cannot be forced to marry at a certain age and to their parents’ choice. Royal families across the world like to choose marriage partners for their kids. Religion too.
Khetha. You can also have two job offers but you choose one. You choose make-up to complement your skin colour, not kill it. You choose to go to a university in Australia, and not Egypt because of the language.
ZULU | ENGLISH |
Khethiwe. | A girl’s name. The chosen one. |
Khethani. | A boy’s name, in fact khethani means many people should choose. We don’t know what was happening in the family when the child was born, but family members were asked to choose. |
Khetha, u-ice cream noma i-yoghurt. | Choose. Ice cream or yoghurt? |
Khetha o-mthanda-yo. | Choose the one you love. |
U-khetha bani? | Who do you choose? |
Ngi-khetha u-Thandi. | I choose Thandi. |
Ngi-khetha i-Cairo. | I choose Cairo. |
U-se-khethi-le. | He has chosen. She has chosen. |
Kwa-khethomtha-ndayo. | A royal palace of the Zulu kingdom before Zulus lost their land to British invaders. |
Ngi-khetha umbala o-bomvu. | I choose colour red. |
Ngi-khetha umbala o-mnyama. | I choose colour black. |
By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.
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