Lizobuya by Mbogeni Ngema (from Amandla!)

Heyi -- Lizobuya – awu helele mama

Lizobuya lelizwe (this land)

Abantu bakithi bazokhululeka “Our people shall be free”

Nangu uBaba uMandela eshaya itsamaya (itsamaya is Sotho for uyahamba)

Nangu Baba uSisulu (another hero) eshayi emuvis ( from English move)

Awu izodilika (it will fall) iJon Vorster

Wona azovuka amadlozi (The ancestors will come back)

Azovuka amadlozi aseMangadini (praise-name for Ngema: Will come back our ancestors)

Ho ho ho ho

Zizovuka izalukazi zaseAfrika The grandmothers of Africa will come back.

Azovuka amaxhegu aseAfrika The grandfathers will come back

Sizoyikhombisa inkululeko They will show/celebrate the freedom

Heyi inkululeko

Sishaya itoyitoyi They dance the dance of freedom

Unomathemba: name of a girl: Ladysmith Black

Ooo wangishiya ngingedwa unomathemba She left me, alone

Lokho-ke kuyangimangalisa That one surprises me

Uma ngibona intandane eyayihleli If I see the orphan sitting

Ngaphansi komthunzi Lokho-ke kuyangimangalisa Under the shade of the tree that one surprises me umthunzi/imithunzi shade

Hawu hawu hawu ngayibuza igama layo I asked her name

Ayiphendulanga She didn’t reply

Yabheka phansi yabe isikhala izinyembezi She looked down and then she cried tears (=izinyembezi; singular = unyembezi)