Lethokuhle Dhladhla

Age:

9 years.

What do you love most about your culture?

I love the clothes we wear and how colourful they are, and [I love] ukukwakwazela (ululating).

What is your favourite Ndebele meal?

(pap).

Umratha

What is your favourite Ndebele clothing item?

The colourful blanket (Umbhalo) worn by young women and men who are coming of age.

Mam’ Esther Mahlangu, who is a contemporary Ndebele painter.

She is my hero because she made my culture famous in other countries.

Who is your Ndebele hero and why?

Ak’si nyaka’nyaka amathumb’efariki. (A messy situation likened to pigs’ intestines.)

Teach us a funny Ndebele phrase.