IBhayibheli Elingcwele - IsiZulu (Zulu) 1893 Isihumusho (old orthography) (Zulu, Foam book, 3rd ed)

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"There's been a deep hunger for a Proper Zulu Bible" by Solly K. - 18 December 2016

I have handled a Zulu Bible by Dr Richard Moffat which was written or interpreted in early 1800 or there about, by the later Dr Moffat in IsiNtugwa which was the Language spoken by the then Zulu Nation of KZN but it was hard to be read and used by our people as they were not educated at the time and they could not therefore read or write IsiNtungwa....according to the "Google", The King however permitted them to write isi Zulu when they complained that IsiNtugwa was too hard. Thus, leaving the Zulu Nation weak or poor in their rich language; or in learning their own proper Mother tongue - (isiNtungwa) The Xhosas from the Cape happen to be first educated than our Zulu People, they introduce their version of Zulu language, this explains why we have uTixo in our "old Zulu" Bibles, you call it Old orthography. In so doing you missed the proper poetics style in the rich Language of the Zulu Nation. Dr Moffat interpreted Tswana, Sotho and Zulu. Recently President Zuma paid $40,000 to the Catholic Church to rewrite the Zulu Bible without any success so far. One of the President Zumas wives complained about the Zulu Bible they read in Church, it has not Zulu poetic style which as you know is common in our rich cultural Zulu Language. Zulu Bible is the only Language that has too many versions of the The Bible in South Africa - written and re-written to satisfy the lacking or poetry of the Language. Nobody is taking care of the Zulu National pride-The Zulu LANGUAGE! One of the professors said to me that it was going to cost too much money. How much do the English spend of their Bibles? We have one Sotho and Xhosa One Afrikaans version; One Swazi version, how much do we spend in building Stadiums etc etc. - I am Solly Khumalo: my email address is sollytech@gmail.com or sollys@iafrica.com Thanks for thinking seriously.