With his daily posts and book Everyday Zulu, Melusi Tshabalala is celebrating SA culture
A cross-section of people interact in the comments section below his posts, which often reveals how little we know of one another. “We live in silos. One black man said this is the only time he gets to interact with white people who aren’t his bosses and a white woman said it’s the only time she interacts with black people who aren’t working for her,” he says. meet-ups for his followers to eat, drink and chat with people they would otherwise never encounter.
“I wanted people to see the beauty of the language and the gems they are missing out on by not giving our languages the respect they deserve,” he says. Now he’s trying to find people with the time and energy to launch similar websites for the other official languages. “IsiZulu is the flagship but I don’t want it to be just about Zulu, it’s more about celebrating and honouring and promoting and preserving South African culture,” he says.
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