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By Citizen Reporter

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WATCH: Chat between Tshivenda-speaking woman, white man crashes at every turn

Perhaps it's time South Africans tried learning the country's languages.


A video of a parking attendant and a couple trying to park their car has left social media users saying perhaps it’s time for the rainbow nation to be exactly that and for everyone to try learning the country’s official languages.

In the video, a Tshivenda-speaking woman interacts with a white couple in their car as they try to discuss how the payment for their ticket will be made.

The woman gives them a receipt, and when the man looks at it, he realises his registration number is not on the receipt. Things get tricky when he asks her where his registration number is.

The woman tells him in her mother tongue that she wants to type in the registration number on her machine, much to the white man’s confusion.

He then asks her if she cannot speak English, and the woman seems to try, but chooses to continue the best way she knows – in her mother tongue, of course – as she walks to the front of the car to take the registration number.

“I love this.. she can’t speak English, but she understands it. He can’t speak Tshivenda and he doesn’t understand it either….. Bosso ke mang?” said one Facebook user.

Watch the video below posted on Facebook by Musa Mathebula:

https://youtu.be/529pKZL5JEo

 

 

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