ACTRESS Amandla Stenberg responded to the heat Mzansi has been giving her on social media recently.
The Hate You Give star was called out for butchering the pronunciation of her Xhosa naam.
She went on TikTok, saying: “Okay, so I am coming on here because I’ve seen a lot of people talking about my name and how I pronounce it, and I want to get in the discourse because I’ve been thinking about these things a lot too.”
Stenberg proved that she can pronounce her name the reg way but she sometimes chose to pronounce it differently.
“A lot of Westerners and Europeans say: ‘Oh your parents took ‘Amanda’ and slipped and ‘l’ in there.’
“No, girl, bye, no, it is ‘Amandla’ as in ‘Amandla Awethu’, which means ‘power to…
