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(((AN IMPROPER NAME CONFERRED TO SOUTH-AFRICAN TOWNSHIP)))

Uma contribuição do Tiago Barizon.

Diretamente do Pravda (jornal russo)

South-African woman cannot make it out: whether they have been knowingly insulted or it has been just a practical joke. The point is that one of the newly-constructed towns has been officially conferred a name which in the local patois means female genitals. To be exact, this is not quite so. In the Xhosa language, the word “ingkuza” means “vagina,” while in the Zulu language, it means “anal hole.” Interestingly, the new township has been erected on the territory where both peoples have long resided, and the authorities should have known it.
Local people think that the new township’s title is just immoral. Beatrice Ngkobo, the local commissar on sex equality states: “It’s disgusting, and it’s insulting.” But she is objected by those who support the new township’s name. In their view, one should not consider it only from the viewpoint that the word “ingkuza” has only a certain anatomical meaning. The point is that so was named a nearby mountain, and the name is correct from the historical point of view. Another argument in favour of preserving the “historical name” is that “it’s wasting of time to discuss such a rubbish.” According to the township’s mayor, quoted by the Daily News, the council has also developed the alternative name. Now, it is up to a court of arbitration to decide on this delicate issue.