Zuma lost in ‘translation’- academic


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Johannesburg – The controversies that President Jacob Zuma’s public remarks sometimes trigger have been attributed to cultural misunderstandings between the president and those who interpret his messages.

Mark Sanders, who lectures in comparative literature at New York University, has suggested that Zuma’s use of the isiZulu idiom in his public statements is sometimes misconstrued, City Press reported on Sunday.

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