Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

People, don't get me wrong, I don't believe in discrimination but at the same time, I think we need to defend our heritage. Europeans know this well, you can be a black inhabitant of a European or Asian country but you'll never be in a position of much power in that land. I think that goes for African lands as well. If a black person has never had a certain position in Europe, why should a white person have a similar or same position in sub-Saharan Africa? We are far too giving, it's sad. Below are some articles of achievements by black people, & I have to say that it's not a bad list of achievements. Africans are capable of far more technical works than simply redesigning spears & cowhide shields. This then begs to question; if we can achieve all this, why can't we re-engineer our communities for the better? Do we lack a sense of self-determination so greatly that all we're good for is being beggars to the world? Surely, we can make our own lands,

List of Ngoni / Nguni nations : • Bhaca • Hlubi • Mpondo • Ndebele (northern Ndebele in Mthwakazi & southern Ndebele in Gauteng, South Africa) • Ngoni / Jere / Jele (mainly in Malawi, northern Mozambique, southern Tanzania, Zambia) • Nhlangwini • Shangaan  • Swazi  • Tembu • Xhosa • Zizi • Zulu Altogether, twelve (12) "Nguni" groups are known to exist. From my knowledge in any case. Bhaca, Hlubi, Nhlangwini, Swazi & Zizi are the Mbo Entity . The Mbo Entity often declassifies itself from the Nguni group. Nhlangwini & Swazi are under a Dlamini dynasty while the Hlubi & Zizi are also Dlamini tribes. Ngoni & Shangaan are of Ndwandwe origin (a tribe assimilated by the Zulu Empire). Bhaca, Hlubi, Ndebele, Nhlangwini, Shangaan, Zizi & some Mpondo are often classified as Zulu. While it's unknown whether Mpondo & Xhosa qualify as Nguni, they are often grouped as Nguni. Using family groups to classify :  • Mbo • Mpondo • Nguni*** (N

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People who near destroyed the country & the businesses they work for are still allowed to continue operations & work in South Africa. How is this possible? The normal procedure would be for their assets to be seized & them being banned from financial industries in South Africa. 

Zulu legislature. I might face some backlash here for writing this in English but I feel some things are better expressed in certain languages for a particular effect & should you wish to translate it into your language whether it be Zulu, Swahili, Ndebele, Portuguese or French - there's a Google translate tool somewhere on this blog. N. B.: This is not the legislature of the KwaZulu Bantustan but rather some laws of precolonial Zululand.  As we all know, the Zulu Empire came into fame in the 19th century when the "relatively insignificant" Zulu tribe expanded it's influence to over six times it's area through conquest & assimilation. Villagers & children would spend their days herding livestock, planting crops, preparing firewood & fetching water. Boys would usually herd livestock, occasionally hunt & prepare to join the regional amabutho. Before the wars of what is now called "Mfecane", the boys would be circumcised** by eld

Full name: Inhlangano Yebhola Likanobhutshuz'wayo YakwaZulu (I. Y. L. Y.) Founded: 11 December 2017  N. B. The star on top of the crest is from the AFCON 1996 victory as South Africa.  HOME: Green with black stripe on left behind crest.  AWAY: Red shirt with black stripe from left shoulder to bottom right abdomen behind crest.  Both home & away kits worn with black shorts. • National anthem. • Zululand vs Egypt  #KZLvsEGY • Zululand vs Morocco  #KZLvsMAR Zulu F. A. structure (IsiZulu) Iqembu lesizwe on Facebook I. Y. L. Y. on Twitter

• USA winning the FIFA World Cup: USA doesn't take football as seriously as other countries but if they took it as seriously as basketball, baseball or Gridiron football, I believe that they could've easily won the FIFA World Cup twice. They were semi-finalists in the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 & beat European Champions, Spain, in the 2009 Confederations Cup.  • Netherlands winning the World Cup: Netherlands reached the FIFA World Cup Final three times, so it's safe to say that they had a real chance of possibly winning it three times.  • Catalonia winning the World Cup: If the stars aligned just right & Catalonia separated from Spain around 50 or so years ago, they could've won the World Cup or at least been European Champions. The Spanish team that won the FIFA World Cup as well as Euro 2008 & Euro 2012 was comprised of many notable Catalan players. The player that scored the winning goal in the FIFA World Cup of 2010 was C

I often talk of self-sufficient ethnostates & when conceptualizing #RepartitionSouthAfrica , I believe that it best to keep the South African economic structure as is but with federated governments & in time these federal regions would become independent self-sufficient ethnostates that structure their own economies.  When we talk about industry in Africa, some places are better than others at certain things. We could incentivise these industries to spread across the continent & maybe combine to share skills & resources. I imagine if we back these African enterprises by encouraging them to expand continentally, they could eventually compete globally. Enterprises like M-Pesa, Ushahidi, Kiira, Kantanka, Dangote Cement, Ebulenjini etc. could unite with companies in the same field to be competitive continentally. This could help the African economy immensely because we wouldn't import as much & all the wealth we make from our own enterprises stays on the continent.

I often say that I grew up among many races but always never forgot my black/African roots. There is no South African accent because every racial group or ethnicity in South Africa speaks with their own accent so if I were to classify my accent,  it would be just "some black guy from South Africa speaking". Accents often tell where you grew up or were educated but race does not. I can speak with a Chinese accent as a black person but it won't make me Chinese.  In the recent past, the word 'race' could often be used in the same way as 'ethnicity'. You'd get the Italian race, the Igbo race, the Egyptian race & so on. It's only in the modern day that the word "race" is specifically reserved for continental groups when before, it could mean any distinct ethnic group. Also, race is not colour because there are some dark skinned Indians who would pass for black if they were bald & light skinned or even albino black people who are much

Congo before Leopold. Recently, D. R. Congo has been a focus for me. From it's history to recent & current political events. It captivates me. The Kingdom  of Kongo has a fascinating history; from the arrival of the Portuguese, slave trade, manufacturing firearms, Belgian colony, Lumumba, rumba, Mobutu Sese Seko, name change from Congo to Zaïre & back to Congo, T. P. Mazembe, Congolese sappeurs... everything about Congo / Kongo seems to attract my attention. I just want to show a few articles I found on the Kongo region & it's history before being a Belgian colony.  Musket / flintlock manufactured in the Kongo Kingdom.  MAPS OF KONGO : Kingdom of Kongo being used as a case study.

People tend to make problems more complicated than they need to be. Like this problem of carbon emissions, I get refitting combustion engine cars & making them hybrids or fully electric but fuel cell technology looks dangerous & overly complicated to be economically viable. I spend some of my time researching this technology & how it works so below is how I'd do things. • Phase out combustion engine vehicles while building infrastructure for electric vehicles : I am convinced that electric vehicles are better than combustion engine vehicles in too many ways to simply just continue with the combustion engine status quo. So in parking places, we could put one or two charging docks that you'd pay to park in & charge your vehicle. We could simply stop importing or making combustion engine vehicles in two years & replace them with fleets of electric vehicles. We could phase out combustion engine infrastructure completely in six years time & maybe revamp som

COMEDY CLIP. I trust you don't believe the title of this blog is true because I intend to disprove the two statements in this blog title. Let me start at home in South Africa ; virtually every symbol of South Africa was indeed the idea of white people from the name of the land, the capitals, half of the national anthem, legal system, state institutions, two of the most spoken languages in the land etc. But the infrastructure was built by black hands , virtually ALL of the gold, coal & other minerals that the South African economy is built on was dug up by black hands. We can go back & forth as to who South Africa belongs to but it's quiet clear that this land was obtained through violence. Nelson Mandela saying "South Africa belongs to all who live in it", won't make everyone who sets foot in South Africa, indigenous to South Africa. Maybe Qumbu & Nelson Mandela's tribal homeland belongs to all who live in it but ask every other South African &

We've been bombarded by international cultures in Africa so much that we often forget we have our own arts & creations. We know of kung fu, muay thai, karate, fencing etc. but our arts are often left in the shadows. So here are a three African combat sports / arts that we can learn & study, maybe create our own competitions & dojos... 1) Capoeira : From my knowledge & research, capoeira was an Angolan combat-dance that was popularized by Brazilian slaves. It's more a dance than a martial art but I believe capoeiristas do learn a few combat skills from being in capoeira.  2) Laamb : Laamb is Wolof / Bambara (Senegalese) wrestling... I'm not sure how it's done but here's a Wikipedia article .  3) Zulu / Nguni stick-fighting : Also known as  ukucwiya is a typical Zulu past time among umlabalaba & others. I believe it was used to train youths for combat.