In this edition of IsiZulu lessons, we look into the times of the day and months of the year. In isiZulu, there is no disguising the word – izinyanga means 3 different things: Moons, Months & Herbalists (who are Moon-people possibly because of their picking of herbs etc. according to lunar cycles). In traditional Zulu culture, time is reckoned by the moons, and there used to be 13 of them in a single ‘movement’ of the sun (unyaka means ‘year’ and comes from the root ideophone nyáka denoting ‘moving’ or ‘shaking’). Lukhona Mnguni is joined by linguist and language specialist Mongezi Bolofo for this conversation.