Zulu Lesson Disrespect

Disrespect is de-le-la in Zulu and there’s a lot of it online because the majority believes in humanity being male and female, and the vocal minority called LGB … alphabet, believes a boy can become a girl once doctors cut off his thing. The disrespect includes the attempt to push parents aside and let strangers replace childhood with sexual activity.

Disrespect is lack of common courtesy on the road. We all have the right to walk on the pavement. When I’m coming south and you’re going north we yield to each other. Other people don’t. They deliberately bump into you.  No sweat. They will die from whatever is eating them up.

Young people disrespect each other sometimes. They call it ‘dissing’. It could be rolling eyes at someone, a hand gesture that’s says you’re nothing, going for the same girl or boy or lyrics in a rap song.

Whatever the dissing, it’s not worth fights that could lead to murder, unless wearing an orange uniform and living in a rent-free apartment like jail, is your fantasy.

Lots of disrespect at home, when two people stop loving each other, or when one partner becomes unemployed. Kids in Europe and North America sometimes disrespect parents in public places. It’s rather sad when you see parents cower in fear.

De-le-la. You say the first part like dead, the second like leg and the last part like lark.

ZULU	ENGLISH
U-Bhoyi u-yadelela.	Bhoyi is disrespectful.
U-Cindy u-yadelela.	Cindy is disrespectful.
Musa u-kungi-delela.	Don’t disrespect me. Don’t ‘diss’ me.
I-West Coast idelela i-East Coast.	The West Coast disrespects the East Coast.
U-yangidelela.	She/he disrespects me.
Ni-yadelela uma ni-dakiwe.	You have no respect when you’re drunk.
U-Deliwe u-delela u-mamazala.	Deliwe disrespects her mother-in-law

By:  Nonqaba waka Msimang.