NEW TINKHUNDLA PHRASEBOOK OUT

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