Africa centre 5th floor 28 st georges mall cape town 8001 tel. Isixhosa is a tonal language of southern africa and one of the official languages of south africa. E loketse babadi ba ditoropong, metseng le mapolasing. Some things are better spoken of in ones mother tongue and so veronica performed in sesotho. South african actress suzan didi mahlatsi takes a trip back to sharpville, the place that inspired her sesotho poem about history, culture and. Veronica malakoane performs at the african flavour books african poetry celebration. Short stories from sotho writers, including thabiso. Sindiwe magona, in her book living, loving and lying awake at night 1991. Boka boka to make love, to have sex ho robala le motho e motona kapa e. Poems in sesotho poem by pheko motaung poem hunter. Like black american bluesmen they sing of love affairs and. Love poem translated into southern sotho sesotho, the national language of lesotho and an important language in south africa. Sesotho poetry is a form of artistic expression using the written and spoken word practiced by. I know learning sesotho can seem like an incredibly daunting task, but it can be done.
Its unusually early for an african novel, originally published in 1925 but existing in. It has never dawned upon authors and poets in lesotho to write in english, despite the fact that some of them hold degrees. I love you translation in englishsouthern sotho dictionary. The government has also promoted these languages, through the.
Bangodi ba dipalekgutshwe tsena ha ba ngola ba etse hloko dintlha tsa bohlokwa tsa phedisano tse kang ditokelo. Ke rata thothokiso eena, batho ba ba ngata ba jooe. I have included most of the vocabulary words, phrases, and grammatical points that i wish someone had explained to me earlier on. I love you in southern sotho englishsouthern sotho. Chaka is a fictionalised account of the life of the c19th zulu king shaka. Ba nqetile basadi ba kgauteng ke tla kgutlela ho wena jwang. The sesotho is a sotho tswana language bantu nigerocongolese of the south of africa spoken by 5 million africans. How to say i love you too in sesotho how do you say i love you too in sesotho.
She is a published poet and has read and performed her poetry in and around south africa, india, germany, uk and south korea. The conclusion then is that the poem does not have free metre because it mixes. Ena ke pokello ya dipalekgutshwe tse ngotsweng ke batjha. Khotso maphalla was born in 1955 at bohlokong in the free. Sesotho love poem poem translated into southern sotho.
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