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This is the 8th of 9 #HeritageMonth threads looking at clans or nations described by their ancestors in their languages in the 1930s & 1940s. We have looked at the history of the Mmatshaka’s Batlokwa, and read about the amaSwazi who moved to Pietermaritzburg in the 1840s.
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Other posts looked at the culture of the Babirwa, the history of the Makgolokwe, the tragic story of Mpandesi and the amaSwazi in the 1830s and the movement of the Mašašane people north towards Polokwane from KwaZulu-Natal.
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2/17
Yesterday’s thread looked at the Mamabolo nation and their conflict with the Mongatane. Today, let us read of the mighty King Mapogo, ruler of the amaNdebele of Thabatlou.
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When our translation team came across verses of poetry or song, the challenge of rendering them in English was so much greater than with the histories and recipes and other plain speech in the rest of the #AncestralVoices collection.
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While these verses sometimes contain #LostWords or Lost Meanings, they are different from yesterday’s examples. They are poetic, evocative, and complex.
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In some cases, the translators have preferred to leave the phrases as they were written, believing that translating them would be too difficult or might lose something of the original sense.
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This is the seventh of nine Heritage Month threads looking at specific clans or nations as described by their ancestors in their languages in the 1930s and 1940s.
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1/18
We have looked at the history of the Mmatshaka’s Batlokwa, and read about the amaSwazi who moved to Pietermaritzburg in the 1840s.
2/18
2/18
Other threads looked at the culture of the Babirwa, the history of the Makgolokwe, the tragic story of Mpandesi and the amaSwazi in the 1830s and the movement of the Mašašane people north towards Polokwane from KwaZulu-Natal.
3/18
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