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Nalu olu usuku

Grocott's Mail ContributorsBy Grocott's Mail ContributorsJuly 18, 2019No Comments1 Min Read
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Makhanda imbongi Dumisa Mpupha at the Amazwi/ Grocott's Mail 'Scots meets isiXhosa' pop-up poetry cafe at Amazwi on 7 June. Photo: Tom Jeffery

ISIXHOSA SIYAVUTHA

A sonnet about Mandela Day by DUMISA MPUPHA

Olu usuku, kwanga lunga xatyiswa ngokwenza okulungileyo kwiindawo esihlala kuzo. Let there be love peace and happiness wherever we are. Love, peace and happiness are action words. Show them by doing something good for somebody else. Bayethe!

Kungu Mbo nomXesibe

Ngumlisela nomthinjana

Kunamhla baxomolozela uxolo

Babambisene ngemvano

Imvisiswano yimpunga yabo

Abagxekani abanyembani

Ngumdilili nomtyangampo

Ngapha kuphekelwa iinkedama

Kwelinye kolukwa imizi neempahla

Ngaphaya kucocwa izitalato

Kugcobe nosebeleni

Wonk’ubani umandengandengana

Bonke benza izinwe

Izinwe zika Dalibhunga uMandela

  • Dumisa Mphupha writes for Grocott’s Mail under the auspices of the NRF SARCHI Chair in the Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education.
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