Celebrating Tonga Language

Josephine Sithole Muganiwa, WIN Board Chairperson

A Merry Christmas to you all, wishing you the best in 2013. Lets love and promote our mother languages.

RHYTHMS OF THE TONGA DRUMS

Simunyono Mubi

Kondisosoloka simunyono,

Nsiyandi kulya anduwe,

Nee! Nikuba kuyakilana ayebo,

Uli alunyonyoono.

Iwe simunyono ulimulozi!

Ukaka kuvula kwabamwi,

Akwambono zyabo,

Nootantalika zitukuta zyabamwi mbuuli njina.

Libelekele ujane zyako zisamo,

Zyako mbono azilyo,

Sowa mooyo wabujayi,

Uzwaatunune mooyo wabbivwe.

Munyono wako ukukachizya kuvula,

Maanu ako ngakutezula bamwi.

Botelwa kuvula kwabamwi,

Nomuzoka ugobola katalyi.

Sanduka kumiyeeyo ibolede,

Ukazikane kabotu abamwi.

Nkaambo chisi nchabantu biingi,

Utabajayi Mulengi kachibayanda.

Iyi ma kofwa bweeme!.

By Rev. Jeffrey Muleya, Binga

{This poem is a complaint and a rebuke against a wickedly jealous person (simunyono) who will not work but want to eat the sweat of others, wants to gather everything to him/herself, kills anyone succeeding in life. He is likened to the snake which will bite a person but it will not eat the person – Rev JM}

Enjoy your holidays!