Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

In the news :  Forty-four young Ethiopian men were found locked inside a Sandton house - starving, cold & kept in darkness. Police believe they were trafficked & that their captors demanded up to R50 000 for each victim’s release. Ethiopian men believed to be in SA illegally were found locked in a Parkmore house. Trapped in two rooms, some needed medical help. The trafficker ran before security arrived.  I think there are more illegal immigrants in South Africa than officials would care to count.  We've even heard of hoardes of illegal immigrants from Europe being hidden in the Western Cape & Cape Town.  Ethiopians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis & Somalians are among the most trafficked people to South Africa & it's always just men. I have not seen a single Somalian, Ethiopian, Pakistani or Bangladeshi woman in South Africa but dozens of Somalian males. This is how forced ethnic dilution happens & how race replacement happens. The same ...

I've heard some people quoting from King Shaka's praises claiming that he was "like the sun" therefore light-skinned. But I'd like to ask how comparisons with the sun equate with being light-skinned? If anything, if King Shaka was light-skinned, they'd compare him to something terrestrial like the colour of a cow hide, wood or other object because very few extraterrestrial objects have the colour of any human skin. Even white people are called "ondlebe zikhanya ilanga" ('those who have translucent ears") & not  "abakhanya okwelanga" ("those who shine like the sun"). King Shaka's mother was from Elangeni & there is the Langa clan in KZN, all of them are black with many being exceptionally dark-skinned so I don't think the comparisons comparing King Shaka with the sun have anything to do with his complexion. Even the whites who first saw him & drew him wrote that he was dark & fairly tall. I also don...

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...

It really puzzles me when Cape Coloured people claim that South Africa belongs to coloured / KhoiSan descendants because;  • they are more Eurasian than they are KhoiSan. Us black "Bantu people" in the east of South Africa are more KhoiSan than they are. We still use the actual (c, ch, gc, gq, gx, q, qh, x, xh) clicks in our languages that we got from the San. Most Nguni people have San & some Khoi ancestry. Genetic samples show that Nguni people have anything between 2-10% KhoiSan DNA.  • There is a group of San in Botswana & Khoi in Namibia who live on their own land & not once did they claim the whole of Botswana or Namibia. I guess they figured that they can't claim a land who's borders were made in Berlin.  • The Khoi or San are NOT the first group of Homo Sapiens to live in South Africa. There was a non-KhoiSan group of Homo Sapiens that lived in Sibudu Cave by Durban 77 000 years ago, over 50 000 years before the Khoi & San arrived in South ...

As I cannot live for hundreds of millions of years, I was not there to see any of these events happening so I'll take the word of historians, archaeologists & anthropologists in these findings. I did not screenshot every map so you can go to the website underneath & go have a look for yourself.  170 MYA (Million Years Ago): In the mountains, next to Antarctica with Argentina the same distance away as Cape Town.  200 MYA: Wedged in between Argentina & Antarctica  260 MYA: Under water again.  340 MYA: Virtually at the South Pole  370 MYA: Either glacier landscape or under water 450 MYA: Either under water or glacier landscape. Antarctica is closer to us than Cape Town or Mozambique.  470 MYA: Positioned as the most northern point of South Africa & of Africa but still in the Southern Hemisphere.  500 MYA: Antarctica north of us & closer to us than the Karoo.  ...

I still think the single-language ethnostate is the most ideal form of country but there are various factors that contribute to a nation being less successful. In Africa; Burundi, Rwanda, Morocco, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana & maybe Egypt can be considered "nation states", but are not as wildly wealthy nor have as high a HDI as Greece or Spain, for example. So what is the problem?  It's just my theory but I think here, we have a cultural problem where in some lands untrustworthy leaders, external destabilising or geography have played a big role in keeping a nation state underdeveloped. This is not only prevalent in Africa's nation-states but in countries around the Caucasus & eastern Europe where the culture sometimes revolves around corruption & being downtrodden. Sometimes a nation has been oppressed & it's people depressed so long that the people do not see their country being any better because they believe "This is just how we are."...

I believe ability can be taught . If black South Africans learnt the same trades & skills that whites & Asians have, they'd be able to maintain South Africa as is. That is, IF they wanted to keep South Africa as is.  A South Africa with pre-1652 racial demographics could still be successful.  France could've still won the FIFA World Cup with only white Gaul-descended Frenchmen. Ability is not a matter of race as it is of learning a method. This is why Japan, a largely homogenous nation seems to be good at everything from industry to sport. Japan has managed to find a balance between their ancient past & modern systems, or they - at least - have modernized their ancient cultures & translated them into the modern world. They do all this with very few Europeans & Africans in their country. No ability is race specific. Black people can learn to make guns & cars as easily as white people can learn to stick fight & hunt animals with spears....

When I speak of South Africa's minorities - I do mean racial minorities such as coloureds, Indians & whites not  ethnic minorities such as the Phuti & Nama.  Now, these minorities are often angered by the state of disfunction in South Africa. I offer solace not contempt when I say MAJORITY RULES . Knowing the history of South Africa, their rage seems misplaced because they will always seem to be the foreign entity despite their best efforts at including themselves in majority matters. It is not the colour of their skin as much as their condescending mannerisms towards a previously oppressed indigenous people that earns them disapproval.  In any peaceful land, the majority needs to be satisfied with the state of the country. Minorities leading/controlling a country will always lead to turmoil & unrest. This is why Apartheid & African colonialism were doomed, because of minority rule. If Apartheid were applied where Boers were the majority (i. e. Holland),...

I think for South Africa to improve, we need to start from scratch. Indigenous lands  returned ,  chiefs  back in  parliament  & restructure the  education system  in a way that makes hardened individuals who know that they're working towards something  greater  than themselves in the land they're in.  KWATUISM WILL NOT KILL YOU If you do not believe in a sense of nationhood & you live in a land of people unlike you, you're never going to give 100%, your best efforts will always seem rejected & the diverse land will always seem thankless. Now, we're made to believe that we as individuals are literally bigger than the country? Why & How? Shouldn't the NATION be BIGGER than any individual?? You cannot be a one-man-country. A nation is formed by a homogeneous ethnic group. This needs to be emphasized because leftism doesn't believe tribalism & discrimination based on appearance exists. Human nature encompasses being disd...

As we all know, Apartheid dealt a big blow to the recognition of South African football globally, with both the Olympics & FIFA banning Apartheid South Africa from participating in international football from 1961 to 1992. And, unfortunately, ConIFA did not exist when South Africa was under Apartheid so individual South African tribes in the Bantustans or other homogenous tribal territories couldn't participate in international football.  I consider the 1970s the "prime" of South African football because this is where legends like Jomo Sono, Abednigo Ngcobo, Cedric Xulu & Patrick Ntsoelengoe were in their prime. The likes of Zane Moosa & Fani Madida came later but didn't match the hype of the 70s legends in any case.  Lesser known South African footballers While South Africa was banned from participating in AFCON, the World Cup & the Olympics, the South African Black XI did beat Argentina 5-0 in an invitational match which was testament to the level of...