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South Africans speak many languages. Write down a set of numbers in a simple equation and anyone who received a basic education would understand it.
In English, we would say “one”. Afrikaners would say “een”; Zulu speakers would say “kunye”, and Sesotho speakers would say “nngwe”. But irrespective of the language, everyone would know the symbol “1”.
Everyone would get that 1+1=2. Some believe numbers have a meaning attached to them. Take the 31st of May (the fifth month of the year) as an example. Both 5 and
