New Tinkhundla- English Phrasebook to be published
Publishing house Smith, Jones, Dlamini, Dlamini and Dlamini have announced the publication of a new phrasebook which will make Tinkhundla English comprehensible to English speakers from outside the Swaziland. Here is a foretaste of some of the entries:
Enjoy.
Tinkhundla English
Mysteriously disappeared from the police station | English
Stolen by the police | |
Unique system of democracy | Undemocratic | |
Mysterious giant serpent with supernatural powers that lives in the river | A snake | |
Mysteriously disappeared from the Council’s bank account | Stolen by the Council | |
To suffer from a lack of budgetary means, capacity and infrastructure to implement the constitutional requirement to provide free primary education | To spend on own salaries and cars. | |
Terrorist | Democrat | |
So called ‘progressive’ | Progressive | |
Commission of Enquiry | Group of wealthy people paid to do nothing | |
Mysteriously disappeared from the Ministry’s accounting records despite rigorous and exhaustive efforts to trace the misplaced money by an independent financial auditor | Stolen by Ministry staff | |
To convene a national prayer to resolve the issue of the imploding economy | To capitulate | |
To convene a national prayer to resolve the issue of spiralling crime | To capitulate | |
To be in possession of the suspect’s name but in the interests of justice, to not mention it while investigations are ongoing | To fear that the suspect may have connections | |
To declare one’s assets to the Integrity Commission | To write whatever you like, hand it to a relative, lock it in a safe far from public scrutiny and forget about it. | |
To lack the financial means to provide anti-retroviral drugs to HIV+ people | To possess the financial means to pay for an $8 million shopping trip to Rome | |
To thank the EU for its direct budgetary support and to assure them that the money will be targeted at Government’s priorities* | *Impossible to translate as publishers do not believe the EU really gives direct budgetary support |
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