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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Let Aberdeen Celebrate Mr Vuyani Jacobs' Life

Let uJama kasi Jadu go but forget him not...

When I, Vuyani Jacobs, come to the end of the road
and the sun has set for me,
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room.
Aberdeen..... Why cry for a soul set free?
I Zizi liyaphumla nto zakuthi!
Ndiyekeni ndiphumle mzi ka Phalo.
Miss me a little - but not too long
And not with your head bowed low.

Miss unyana ka Thamsanqa but let u Dlamini u Jama kasi Jadu go.
For this is a journey that we all must take!!
Please don't ask how he die, but how did u Dlamini live?
Don't weep at my grave for I am not there 'cause I have
a date with a butterfly to dance in the air.
I will be singing in the sunshine, wild and free playing tag
with the wind while I am waiting for thee.

Aberdeen, my dorpie, do not stand at my grave and weep
for I, Vuyani Jacobs, am not there, I do not sleep.
U Jama kasi Jadu is a diamond that glints on snow.
Yes I thought the life would last forever, I was wrong.

U Vuyani akafanga kuba ulele yena.
Akafanga u Vuyani kuba akakwazi ukufa.
U Jama kasi Jadu akanakufa ngokuba akafi.

Yes Dlamini, Jama, Zizi elihle we shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. Lala ngoxolo nyana wothuthu nyana womgquba. Rest in peace, Son of the Soil.

Article By: Lulamile Klassen
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