Zulu Newspaper Reader - Dunwoody Press

Njengoba KULULA ukuthi abantu baphathwe ngumalaleveva
… ‘Since it is EASY for people to contract malaria …’
2.3.7. ngokuthi ‘that, in that’
non-influencing (see 2.3.6.1 above)
(a) + indicative (in a statement of fact or belief):
Ngifisa ukwazisa ezinye izingane ngokuthi kufanele zikhulume
nabazali bazo ‘I wish to let other children know that they should
speak to their parents’ [Although the English translation contains the
auxiliary ‘should,’ the Zulu auxiliary kufanele itself is in the
indicative mood, though itself governing a subjunctive complement.]
bafuna ukuchazeleka ngokuthi izimali ziyaphi ‘they want to have
an explanation about where the monies go (lit. that the monies go
where)’
Babuye bagxeka ukukhuphuka kwemali yokufunda ngokuthi
isuke ku-R50 … iye ku-R120 ‘They again opposed the rise in
tuition fees that went from R50 rands to R120’
(b) + subjunctive (in a statement of obligation, necessity, etc.):
Ngingakweluleka ngokuthi ubonane nodokotela ukuze akwazi
ukuhlola. ‘I can advise you that you should consult your doctor so
that (s)he can (lit. (s)he should) examine you.’
(c) + subjunctive (in clauses indicating repeated, common, usual,
normal, actions):
iziboshwa zivamise ukuzifikisa ezinye iziboshwa ngokuthi
bazihlukumeze ngokocansi ‘prisoners generally mistreat new
prisoners in that they sexually assault them’
Kulesosimo kungenzeka noma yini, njengokuthi kube khona
ogcina nokuphangalala ‘In that situation anything is possible, such
as someone ending up dying (lit. like that there should be one who
end up dying)’
2.3.8. ukuze ‘in order that’
2.3.8.1. + subjunc: ‘so that, in order that, to, so … should’
(in clauses of purpose or desire; often, though not necessarily after
verbs of desire, intention, instructing, requesting, ordering,
preventing, causing …; or after nouns indicating purpose, intention,
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