Spanish singer Julio Iglesias was on television with British TV host
The host turned to Mr. Sopho Msondtlwana who was also on the show and asked him if there was an equivalent term in Xhosa, or other South African ethnic language. “No, Suh” he replied. “In Bafanaland, we don’t have a word to describe that degree of urgency.”
Anne Diamond when he used the word “mañana” (pronounced “manyana”).
Diamond asked him to explain what it meant.
He said that the term means “Maybe the job will be done tomorrow, maybe the next day, maybe the day after that. Perhaps next week, next month, next year. Who cares?”