Oh but she’s not even South African, people need to give this child a break! 🙄

Imagine British people calling out South Africans with English names they can not pronounce??? Lol this is reaching people need to leave this child alone!!!!!

She can say her name and explained why it was westernized. I still love her💕

As long she knows the meaning of her name that's what matters I just wish people would stop being so damn judgemental maan

Honestly, I don't mind... So long as she knows what it means and appreciates its (name) beauty. We South Africans are so blessed that we can utter so many sounds that others struggle with. Hell, even most white, coloured & Indian South Africans can't pronounce our sounds (honestly, a choice at this point) and we interact with them daily!

She tried bethuna 🥺 asxhole guyz🖤

Mean while stage 5 loadshedding and pronunciation is what we care about, not to mention how we mispronounce so many names/words that's not in our mother tongue😵

Am more surprised that it's even on KZfaq 🤣 am South African and Xhosa and even here pple of some tribes can't pronounce some of the clicks in my language but it doesn't offend me coz I know their tongues can't click becoz their languages don't click. Therefore I don't crucify some1 for not being able to pronounce click words especially non South Africans🤧 if it was a simple word like Thando, then I would be on the fence

She's beautiful

People need to take a chill pill. When we speak in a language, we cater any foreign words and names to the pronunciation of that language. People do it naturally and automatically. I'm Chinese-American and when I insert English words into my Chinese, I do so with a Chinese accent. When I say Chinese names in English, I use an American accent. It's what most people naturally do. I'm also fluent in French and when I order a croissant at an American pastry shop, I don't pronounce the pastry with a French accent. Nor do most French people I know. At all the schools I've attended, which have like 50+% Asians and Mexicans, people Americanize the pronunciation of their names all the time. It's literally to make the language flow as one. I do sometimes switch between languages in their native forms, and you know what happens? I pause, and flow doesn't happen.

Amandla doesn’t owe anyone the so-called correct pronunciation of her name. It’s literally hers to pronounce however she deems fit. It’s very self-righteous to think you have authority over how someone chooses to pronounce their own name.

People need to chill.

She'll forever be Catalina/Colombiana to me please😃

South Africans are pedantic about other people pronouncing their names incorrectly, when most of the population can’t pronounce Venda and Tsonga names. Plus the non-nguni also struggle with Nguni names, and vice versa. Let’s cut each other some slack, we have bigger problems to worry about.

She is not Xhosa or Zulu, myekeni !

What a powerful name✊🏾

Meanwhile I always read it as Amanda lol. I really thought it was Amanda. I never saw the L 🤣🤣🤣

What a beautiful soul ❤

Such a beautiful lady with a very beautiful name ❤️

My son is born to a Nigerian American mother. His name is Chike. I say it as Chee-kay.

It’s the environment you grow up in that dictates how you speak. Even us South Africans have our own way of pronouncing words which is completely different to the American and the rest of the world. People should take a chill pill and give this Amandla girl a break. It doesn’t matter how she pronounces her name.

Perfect, bra they can’t westernized our names like that yooh

Amandla is beautiful 🥰❤️

Speaking of mispronunciation of names, her surname is STEN-berg, not STEIN-berg as you pronounced it (the former is Swedish, the latter is German, though they both mean the same thing - "stone mountain").

Lmao, also there are so many names & words that we as South Africans butcher so I really wouldn't make a big deal about it. 😂 😂 😂

Now do Goapele🤣

She really tried, people make a big deal out of nothing,come on now.

What a beautiful and powerful name. Amandla

Amaaaandla!!!!✊🏽 Ngawethu❤️❤️

Cute 🥰

Yoo drama engaka they wanna own her because of a name like seriously her parents are not even South African 😂

Niyaphapha..

I'm South African and this is something that means very much to us and seeing it westernized, especially when apartheid was an atrocity perpetrated by westerners, not even 3 decades ago, is not something that will sit well with South Africans

To be fair Amanda is not African but African people have their own way of pronouncing it and no one ever complained about the pronounciation

Oh little Rue😊

Her mum shouldn't have named her that! That's her fault.

That's cool. I kinda had a feeling her name probably sounded like that. African names are cool. My momma tried but I got a secondhand african name lol.

I don't see how's tht a problem when she's not even south African ND yet we still have South African Grown ups who still finding it difficult to pronounce Our names. Hey heal ppl ND let omunye umtana to breath. Hau

Yeah we Africans need to rest cause we also butcher English names like Penelope we pronounce it: 🖊 PEN- Eè - loupe so let's all sit down

Yhu abantu bayadika shame. Singenaphi? Are we really that bored or unhappy with our own lives that we feel the need to start scratching where it doesn't itch? This is so exhausting

There's no OR. You got the second pronounciation right. And that's the correct one.

(Amendla) dear, not Amandla.. 😄

I'm Danish and I can say that she doesn't pronounce her surname correctly either, but I don't hear any Dane complaining about that.. And why would we? It's a bit silly to think that people from other nationalites should be able to pronounce your language. Even more so when it's not well known worldwide. It doesn't mean you don't accept your heritage

I dont like when parents do that this is why so many of our cultures died. Because we want to fit in and we're shamed onto thinking our way of life was backwards. Parents teach your child your native tongue first and then English. I find it so cool too see kids/adults interchange languages. Just because you date outside your raelce doesn't mean you should lose your culture

She really tried waitsi🤍😅 i love her

she's not south African what is wrong about yall

I guess they are coming for Goapele next😶

Ha ha haaaa 😂 South Africans

You are worthy of your name. Never westernize it.

Why is it that almost every teen movie she is in her love interest in the flick is a white actor? Never seen her with a black boy lead or co-lead. You can always tell when white men are in charge of these productions.

People out here are so weak minded, being offended by a child across the Atlantic 🤣🤣

That's more like it🥰

Ninedrama SA shame 🤞🤞🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Colombiana

She’s not South African, leave her to pronounce it as she pleases 😅

Americans just say it that way.

Their pronouns are they/them I’m pretty sure.

She tried

Leave her alone

Yeyi South Chill Maan yeses

She's so pretty😍! But she had to be lesbian bra😭

PENG

Hayi! They better give a child a break for real she's not South African moc and it's her parents who gave her that name not her 🙄

But therer r other South African who r blacks staying here.And they don't know their mother tongue,bcs they grow up in boarding school with white kids 😩

It is disrespectful, if she had a French name ,would she mispronounce it ?

everyone is just WAITING to be pissed off about anything. people were really telling her how to pronounce her own name? i can’t. p.s. stream bodies bodies bodies.