Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

You know, in a country with a population of over 80% black people, it almost doesn't make sense that of the Top 20 richest South Africans, only three are black. Thirty years into a democratic, "non-racial" South Africa.  It's not because we're lazy, we've been  working & trying to get grinding for a long time. The thing is, there are people guarding who gets wealthy in South Africa. And it's true, "There are no good billionaires." You can't be an average good guy with millions in the bank in South Africa, it doesn't work like that. If you are, they're going to find a way to strip you of your money. The (white-owned) banks of South Africa are often said to be racially biased, with black-owned banks being constantly under attack. While South Africa seems like a place where you could work & get a reasonable amount of money, once you gain a certain amount of cash, they start trying to push any ugliness or bad feelings to your surf...

In the wake of movements such as Cape Independence & other Afrikaner nationalist movements seeking self-determination within South Africa, what (black) people fail to see is that South Africa was never united to begin with & as the poem below states "kinship cannot be forced." When Apartheid was said to have ended, nobody questioned who made South Africa, why & how indigenous people came to be in South Africa. Now, we find ourselves in a land that is almost fighting against us as indigenous people & that has a very uncertain foundation. AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW 1. The land was bare, it was the wilderness  2. We tamed, ploughed & removed some illness  3. In separate lands, a language each  4. But today, this they no longer teach  5. Before a single foreign ship came  6. We could beasts & fire tame  7. Now, with new devices we seek to return our lands  8. In a modern world, we've embraced new innovations in the same lands  9...

A few days back (15 March 2025), I got inspired to design an aircraft that is simple, faster than an attack helicopter & does not need a runway to take off. This eVTOL may never be made but I felt that putting it on paper & sharing it could gain me something, hopefully, in future.  M. M. Heshe specifications:  • Lightweight  • Three rotors that tilt 30° forward to move the drone  • Wind powered VAWT & sodium-ion battery system which gives it a long operating range.  • Artillery: A stinger missile on each side & a 20 mm automatic gun on it's front point.  • No wheels, simple bar stand for landing. A fleet of these could replace the job of attack helicopters & light attack aircraft.  M. M. Heshe II specifications: • This is a smaller version of the M. M. Heshe which only has two rotors.  • No cockpit.  • Artillery: A 7,62 mm automatic rifle (thirty rounds, three shots at a time).  • Camera to be radio controlled with an...