Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

(b) Examples with a principal complement:
Ngiyawazonda amaphoyisa ngoba ahlale esishaya ‘I hate the
police because they keep on hitting us’ [Though ahlale seems to
have the subjunctive structure, this is not the case. The suffix -e here
is not the subjunctive suffix, but the suffix which is generally used to
change an ordinary verb into an auxiliary verb. The fact that the SC
is a- in place of e- indicates that this verb is principal and not
participial.]
Asilali ebusuku ngoba bayasinukubeza ngesikhathi silele. ‘We
don’t sleep at night because they sexually interfere with us while we
are asleep.’
ngoba akukho okwenziwayo ukuthuthukisa isikole ‘because there
is nothing being done to uplift the school’
(c) Examples in which the complement could be either principal or
participial depending on their semantic and or syntactic
interpretation, and with tone possibly differ-entiating the two:
Ngibona kungcono ukuba siqikelele ukuphepha kwa-bantwana
bethu ngoba kusazothatha isikhathi ukuba kutholakale indlela
yokunqanda lo mkhuba. ‘I’m of the opinion that it would be better
for us to be careful about our children’s safety because it will be
some time yet before a way is found to prevent this practice.”
Umshado wabo waqala ngokuba nezinkinga ngoba abazali
bakhe babengafuni ukuba ashade noSebata. ‘Their marriage
started off with problems because her parents did not wan her to
marry Sebata.’
babengahambisani nalokho ngoba babezimisele ngokuba ngibe
ngudokotela ‘they did not go along with that because they were
determined that I should become a doctor’
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