On the day that & a long time ago

Further to other posts on days, and the use of the word 'mhla', the following from the isiZulu Oxford Living Dictionary

mhla
on the day (that), (at the time) when

And these two examples:

Waqala mhla engilanda esiteshini.

She started on the day that she fetched me from the station. (What did she start?)

This one containing a lovely phrase for staring a story:

 

Ngikhumbula loluya suku mhla enqaba ukuya esontweni ethi ngeke yena aye ngoba uMfundisi akabaphi amaswidi.

I remember that day, a long time ago, when he refused to go to church, saying he wouldn't go because the pastor doesn't offer them sweet.

loluya
(demonstrative pronoun)
that over there
or in this case, perhaps 'that distant'

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