WORLDVIEW: A Zuptoid cold shower. Zulu-media turns against King of Nkandla. Hope Springs.

Chris Bateman offers us an excellent counter-balance to mainstream media assumptions of the way SA’s biggest population group reads recent developments.
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My Biznews colleague Chris Bateman occasionally revisits his rural KZN roots by catching up with Zulu-language media. A fluent speaker and reader of Nguni languages, he offers us an excellent counter-balance to mainstream media assumptions of the way SA's biggest population group reads recent developments.

What he shares today is a cold shower for the Zuptoids.

Chris writes: "I spent a part of Sunday listening to Ukhozi FM podcasts and reading the Bayede newspaper. This is something I do from time to time to check out my belief that we live predominantly in cultural and linguistic echo chambers that entrench our perceptions of ''the other".

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