Today’s Zulu word is isithunzi. Isithunzi is a shadow, but it also refers to dignity/clout. It’s about the size of the shadow you cast – your area of influence. Anything that’s seen to diminish isithunzi sakho (your clout/dignity) is obviously not good. So do shorter people have less of isithunzi? Do fatter people have more? If you go on a diet, does your sithunzi dinimish? Does Khulubuse have more of isithunzi than Thuli Madonsela? Of course, he does. He actually casts umthunzi – shade. However