Ponderings of the Man from Mpofana...

When something or someone gains fame or infamy, there comes a time where that something or someone wants to parody or reject it's fame & become a copy or a counter-personality of it's former self forgetting that the present is not the past. Essentially, becoming a fake or anti-personality of a former self. Your obsession in 2005 was not exactly the same thing in 2017 & it's not always because you grew to resent whatever you no longer like, you just grew out of it. That's the problem with fame, it sees an image of the past as the present & it forces people to be frauds.

A while back I wrote a blog called " Are black people really incapable of governing themselves? " and noted various reasons of why black countries almost never reach certain heights. I know the stereotype of black people is often very negative in developed countries but this is all psychosocial & often engineered to be so. Corruption & criminality are not exclusively black things. We have many law-abiding black people who just want to live ordinary lives. The only time black people want to be the main attraction is usually in communities where they are mentally made to be like that. No normal black child grows up just wanting to be corrupt or a criminal without external influences. Not every black person is a criminal & bad behaviour as well as good behaviour is taught. A black society can teach positive behaviours. You might call me "well-trained" or a "house negro" but what does being a criminal often get you other than jail? You can rob a ba...

To me, Xhosas are like the Nguni nation that didn't get the memo. Swazis are known allies of the Zulu, so are the Ndebele, even Shangaan & Ngoni hold similar relations with the Zulu. The Ndebele & Swazi have even gone to war against adversaries alongside the Zulu. All these groups show fraternity with the Zulu except the Xhosa. This, obviously, has a root & history. Much of Xhosa history, before the 1800s is unknown. During the 1800s is when the Xhosa received many "asylum seekers" from the period of turmoil happening in the land of their northern neighbours, the Zulu. This is when Xhosa history began being recorded using European & modern methods. The Xhosa were initially said to have lived between the Sundays River & Mthatha River... after colonisation, the Xhosa language spread among the Mpondo & tribes living north of the Umzimvubu River. This likely being due to Xhosas being used by British colonialists to spread Christianity & to halt Zul...