🚨🚨🚨🚨🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🔥🔥🔥Today I want to talk about the importance of a Court Intepretor.
You will have seen that Ms Maphisa Nqakula, in her case in the Pretoria High Court, has opted to have an, isi-Xhosa-English Intepreter. [and she got a really good one].
I think she made a good decision, if she was advised so, she was well advised.
A lot of people think that Court intepretors are for people who are not educated or who do not understand English. Far from it.
I used to work as a State Prosecutor in Cape Town (Wynberg and Mitchell’s Plain) some 36 years ago. I can tell you from my experinece those years already, how important it is for an accused person especially, to express yourself in Court through in your mother tongue.
Court proceedings are intense and bring about so much pressure which may deprive you of your normal ability to process questions asked.
Even where you are educated or a high profile person in the society, or even a teacher, who understands English, (and I used to prosecute in Afrikaans), in Court they may use idiomatic expressions, which on your side, may bring about misunderstanding of the question asked, or the nuanses.
They may also use complex legal jargon or phrases which need someone like an intepreter, who knows the vocabulary, which often is different from the day to day english language common in your daily engagements or profession.
Using an intepreter, also ‘buys’ you additional time to process the question before you give your answers.
So next time you go to Court, (and I don’t wish that on anyone), ask for a Court Intepreter. Regardless whether its for a criminal matter, civil (maintenance or divorce), or any matter.
We understand.
YOU NEED TO STOP TALKING AND LET GOD SHOW THEM!
The more you try to prove yourself, the more you exhaust yourself.
So stop talking. Let time reveal what your words never could.
And about that setback you had at the beginning of the week… Maybe it was God buying you time you didn't even know you needed. Time to get yourself ready for what you were rushing to get to.
Today, make sure you are not the weapon formed against yourself.
And then leave room for God to do what you can't. Sometimes your job is to stay out of your own way.
#AHiFambeni from 9AM - 12PM and #BreakAwayWithKhutsoTheledi today, we LET GO. LET GOD. LET’S GO. 📻
God saw the moments you chose kindness when it wasn’t returned, and the times you forgave without ever hearing an apology.
He noticed the strength it took to keep your heart open when closing it would have been easier.
He saw you heal without answers, walk away without retaliation, and choose peace over proving a point.
Your quiet tears, your whispered prayers, and the effort it took to love without hardening, none of it went unseen.
Proverbs reminds us that your gift will make room for you, meaning you were never created to compete, explain yourself, or fight to be seen.
What God placed inside you already carries your name and your assignment.
As you begin this day, let this prayer settle in your spirit: May I never lack. May I never lack provision, wisdom, love, strength, support, or divine opportunity. May I never lack peace, even in uncertain seasons.
Be grateful for the protection you never noticed. The doors that didn’t open. The delays that saved you. God has been covering you in ways your understanding could not grasp at the time.
Trust His plan over your pain.
One day, you’ll say, “Now I understand why I had to walk that road.” Because God is the same yesterday, today, and forever faithful in every season, steady in every storm.
9AM #AHiFambeni for another Tuesday edition of #BreakAwayWithKhutsoTheledi 📻