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Being African in 2008...
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I'm not proud of being African today, when our leaders are perpetrators of violence, killing those brothers and sisters who oppose thier point of view.

Zimbabwe, Durfur, Somalia, South Africa....our brothas blood is in our hands... when does it all end? When does the violence stop? When do we start practising Ubuntu that we so religiously preach? When do we go back to the days of our forefathers...when we stood for humanity,when culture made us proud Africans because we embraced every child of the motherland? My heart hurts because we have become inhumane...loving money over people, enriching ourselves and forgetting the citizens of Africa....and then we lobby for a united Africa.....it seems too farfetched a dream. I don't see a united African in my time....and in 2010...well the world cup may be filled with the spirit of Africa, but it will be a spirit of mourning...because until our brothas in Zimbabwe are free...until our sistas in Somalia, Durfar are hungry no more and are victims of rape by rebels no more...until we stop killing each other and untill our leaders refrain from threatening to kill for fraudsters, our hearts will cry our beloved continent. Our ancestors will turn in thier graves in sorrow.....and all that the Mandelas, Kwame Nkrumas, Bikos, hack even Mugabe then, fought for will be but an ideology that was never achieved, a dream that never will.

July 1, 2008 | 8:36 AM Comments  0 comments

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Cry the beloved country
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I was born into the land of Umvelincanti,
I was born into the land of Jezebel,
in a land rich with resources,
in a land without supply, without quality,
in a land that can feed us all,
in a land that feeds the minority, where the poor get poorer,
in a land where there is enough for all.
in a land where the greedy take all.
I was born into a land of mystery and dreams,
I was born into a land without hope,
in a place with the window to heaven,
in a place with the window to hell,
a place where rivers run deep,
a place where the rivers run dry,
and the grass is green all year.
and the grass is no longer green.
I was born into blackness,
I was born into oppression,
black diamond, black olive,
black man, evil man,
black is my beauty.
black is my curse.
I was born into a land rich with culture,
I was born into a land where culture has divided us,
a place where Ubuntu is the essence of our identity.
a place where Ubuntu is lost, buried with the ancestor.
I was born into the motherland,
I was born into homelessness,
where a mother is mother to all child,
where a mother has no child,
where a father is father to all child,
and a father has no child,
where you are my brother,
where I kill my brother,
and you are my sister,
and I kill my sister,
where colour exists only in the rainbow.
where colour defines who you are.
I was born into a land of peace,
I was born into war, civil war, tribal war, political war,
where my brother is my brother,
where my brother is the opposition,
a land where I plough in unity,
a land where I kill to plough,
in togetherness, in harmony.
where togetherness, harmony does not exist.
I was born into a land that bares food for all,
I was born into a land of hunger and poverty,
a land where the harvest belongs to the people.
a land where the land is too dry to harvest.
I was born into royalty, I am a king
I was born an outcast, I am a shame,
I am a queen, I am a princess,
I am an abomination,
we are all heirs to this land.
I have on right to inheritance.
I was born into a land of possibilities,
I was born into a land of HIV/AIDS
I was born into Africa, the motherland.
I was born into Africa, the motherland.
I am African.
I am African indeed.

Cry The Beloved Country!!!!




January 11, 2008 | 11:34 AM Comments  0 comments

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Eight Qualities of a wealthy woman
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Adopted from a book by Oman Suzzy

The eight qualities of a wealthy woman are:

1. Happiness - with what you have, with who you are, with the way you live your life. Happiness is a state of being. Its not something you get, its something you are.
2. Courage - even where there is fear, draw courage from God, from the universe.
3. Generosity - giving to the right person the right thing at the right time, with kindness and without selfish motives.
4. Harmony - with God, with the universe, with nature, with life. Be in agreement with what you fell, interaction between what you think, feel, say, and do.
5. Wisdom - need I say more.
6. Cleanliness - Your body, your room, your mouth (what you say), your mind (what you think).
7. Balance - emotional stability
8. Beauty - inside and out.

And money does not make the list because although it can buy books, it can't buy brains. It can by a bed but not sleep, food but not appetite, amusement but not happiness, a house but not a home, luxuries but not culture, a bible but not heaven.

Isn't it wonderful, the best things in life don't cost a thing!

January 4, 2008 | 11:12 AM Comments  0 comments

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Who is an African?

The other day on radio I heard an advert on a book written by one South African author (did not get his name) .. The book apparently explains what an African is. The advert starts out with President Mbheki's famous "I am an African" Speech, then a white accent voice says "I, too, am an African", then an indain accent, colored and afrikaaner. Then this vioce laughs out and says "Everybody today is an African." It then goes on to sell the book being advertised. I would definately want to read that book, "What is an African?"

For me, there's two side..........Firstly an African is a black man. That is why African-American is synonymous with balck-American, and that is why in most of the career sites in which I have put my CV in will ask me....."Are you: African, White, Colored, Indian, or other (I suppose the other would be asians?). Obviously I wll say African, I'm a blck woman. So there, an African is a black man.

Secondly, an African is a child born into the motherland., who's roots as far as is generations and generations of ancestors is planted in the African soil. That is what an Africa is. Some of the White famers in Zim for example, who's generations were rooted here many years ago. Yes they are products of colonialists but let not man pay for the sin of his forefathers. Only The higher Being can judge right? Can't they call themselves African? A black man was asked once on radio, "What is being African?" He said Africans were balck. Then the radio personality asked him, "but what if you were to move to China and 10 generations down, your childern continue the legacy you started in China. Will they not then be regarded as Chinese?" He said" Not Chinese, citizens of China yes, but not Chinese" He has a point because chinese are not black right?

Anyone with a clear definition of what an African is?

I have concluded that whatever you choose to call yourselves, we are all citizens of the global village and if we can learn to live in harmony and look beyond race, beyond clolour, we will find that there really is enough room for all of us, whether in Africa, America, Europe or Asia, black, white, colored, indiann, chinese or other.

September 21, 2007 | 8:05 AM Comments  0 comments

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Staying up the whole night,...........Thank you school!

Formal school was brought to Africa by the white man to educate a society that was used to informal and social education, hunting and living freely and in harmony with the wild.

Sometimes I imagine myself having lived in those times..................free from school. School to me is like what a man is to woman...."Can't live with them, can't live without them". I love school, don't get me wrong but yesterday, I almost cursed those settlers who brought it to our motherland. Have you ever stayed up the whole night becuase of this mind-opener? I have, a zillion times! But everytime I have to its like the a new tormenting experience I can never get used to. I stayed up the whole night yesterday busy with one of my never ending school assignments. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I almost cried....exhaustion, red teary eyes from starring at the computer for to long, it was hellish. The funny thing is I always tell myself after crossnighting, that I'll never do it agian. That I'll try to manage my time better and hopefully never have to experience being drunk without having taken any alcohol...................but what do you know? When I'm swamped with a load of work as I often am, I'm back cursing (well almost...I'm a Christian woman and I try to refrain from negetivisism..[if there is such a word])............anyways as I was saying.......back almost cursing and wishing I was born before the times of the civilisation and colonisation of the motherland.

On the bright side though, I would never have had the opprotunity to Take it Global...so thank God I'm living in this time hey!

September 21, 2007 | 7:46 AM Comments  0 comments

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