ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)
‘Ugcwele iTakalani.” That is; your existence is filled with Takalani, loosely translated.
Growing up in the Gauteng township of Katlehong, we used the saying “ugcwele iTakalani” in reference to a bumbling blockhead of a buffoon with the misfortune of a bird’s brain.
The word Takalani is taken from the long-running and renowned SABC children’s educational programme, Takalani Sesame, which first aired in 2000 and is the South African…
