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Some Interesting Referrals:
That a Zulu woman will not mention her husband’s name but will refer to him by his regimental name, or sometimes, if she is a mother, will speak of him as the father of her child So-and-So.
That a Zulu woman will not mention the name of her husband’s father. She will speak of him as uMamezala – “a mother who bore (my husband)”.
uNhlolanja. Kusuke sekuyohlolwa (ukudla) emasimini. NguNhlolanja nje, kungathi kuqala kwaku-ngu’Nhlolanje (hlola nje). (The Moon) when the fields are visited in search of food. This is Nhlolanja (also meaning examine-dog – as this is dogs’ mating month) now, but originally was Nhlolanje (examine merely)- suggesting that this latter (Hlola nje, examine merely) had come to be used as an excuse for visiting the gardens when it was forbidden, according to national custom, to reap anything from them before the ceremony of the Feast of First Fruits.
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