Umama wami andinceli nokusibona uma edubula ngiyabaleka. Isibhamu kimi siyingozi. uma umuntu esdubulile uyafafa angeke usaphila. ebusuku nginokuzwa isibhamu mara nginganaki ukuthi yisibhamu noma yiTV. Nginokusibona khona nakubantu mabathi kimi bamba nasi isibhamu, ngithi angisifuni ngoba angazi ukuthi esamadlala noma esamampela na. Yiko ngingasifuni phambi kwami ngiyasisaba isibhamu siyabulalana, impela uyafa esibhamini.
English Translation
When a gun shoots I become scared. I don’t want a gun and I don’t like it. I don’t even ask my mother to look at her gun. When she shoots I run away and a gun is dangerous. When you shoot a person s/he dies and never wakes up. At night I would hear a gun shoot and I would ignore that thinking it is on TV. At times people would ask me to hold a gun and I refuse because I hate the gun; at times I would not know if it is a real gun or a toy gun. I do not like the gun in front of me, I am afraid of it; it kills.
Linda Gwala (Whose mother is a traffic cop) Grade 4 student at Ikwezi Junior Primary School