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with status, wealth and superiority complex. It is the language
of the successful, as the saying goes.
Strange colonial thought patterns have emerged around the
issue. People have come to measure one's intelligence in terms
of how one speaks English. The more articulate you are in
English, the more intelligent. This is a sheer nonsense.
(Sowetan, 28 Mabasa 1998, p13).
Lesikhalo lesingenhla sibuye sifakazelwe nguXala, (1998) lapha ayibeka kahle
kucace kutsi nasingavuli emehlo sitawumuka nemanti sihleka. Asimuve
nabeka ngemavi akhe atsi:
We must beware of mental colonosation! Land is exhausted.
Only the mind of the people that may, and is prone to
colonisation. Never ever allow such a beastly and terrifying
process lets you down in the process. This has, sadly,
happened. That is why people are taking their own language
to play a second iddle. No matter how good you may speak,
write and communicate with other language, you will never be
the member of the next language. You'll remain umZulu if you
are umZulu and you must speak and communicate with isiZulu.
(Xala, 1998:2).
Akekho longati kutsi bafundisi labanyenti labamhlophe batfuka inhlamba
lenganani nabashumayela ngesintfu kepha kunekutsi sisole, sivele sitsi
lomlumbi uyasikhuluma sintfu kepha uke wacala wona silumbi, kusuka bona
labakitsi bakudle luhlata njengobe kuvakele ngetulu. Belumbi labanyenti
labafundze bagogodza nalabatibita ngetingcweti kutetilwimi talabamnyama
kuba matima nawutsi asebakhulume ngalololwimi labatsi bayalwati.
Ludzaba lolumatima kabi lolu ngobe nasikhala sitsi sicindzetelwa
ngulabamhlophe kepha basuke bakuphi labamhlophe nasitentela imicimbi
yetfu emakhaya lafana nabot>1tubatuba. Uciniso kutsi asitati butsine betfu
siyantunta nje emoyeni. Kwangatsi kufanelele sihlukutise kucabanga
kwetingcondvo tetfu sicabange ngalokuhlukile. Kumele sicabange kabusha
uma ngabe imfundvo isente singene ehlatsini. Kepha Hlophe, (Iocashuniwe
kuSowetan:24) utanesisombululo natsi:
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