Amabhantiti - childrens song from Kwa-Thema Township near the town of Springs in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng Province, South Africa).
Language: isiZulu slang
The song translates to
Amabhantiti, Amabhanti, // The convicts, the convicts,
atheng 'iBluseal. // They bought Bluseal.
Awuyeyeni, iBluseal. Awuyeyeni, Bluseal.
Ungatheng 'ivaselin 'enjenge 'iBluseal, // Do not buy a Bluseal Vaseline,
Awuyeyeni, iBluseal. Awuyeyeni, Bluseal.
Amabantiti is a song used to encourage young people to be law abiding citizens.
The song further implores youths to avoid breaking the law, which might lead to their arrest and possible imprisonment. In Zulu language, the term amabhantiti refers to prisoners or convicts. Although the deeper meanings of this song (the likelihood to be sodomized in prison) may not be very clear to the children, the song advises them to avoid horrific situations such as physical assaults, sexual predatory and other violent lifestyles (which they can be exposed to as prisoners) by obeying the law.
isiZulu slang Text is translated into English by Mr. Bernett Nkwayi Mulungo