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06/10/2024

Today it was unbelievable at Mabopane AOG, thank you bazalwane for your love. My family and I are just overwhelmed.

05/10/2024

Comrade Panyaza is one of the remaining voice of sanity in ANC. TM must now get a farm his British narrative lectures arw mudding our politics. The other one us nit even in my vocabulary

09/09/2024

Marriage is a blessing but can be a mess when certain principles are compromised.
"Which principles you think are core?

08/09/2024

Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
We will the rest of the week reflected on AGREED in relation to marriage

07/09/2024

I just want to submit this input, though thorny it is aimed at building our country.
My concern is tre disparity of support experienced in schools by the private.

While Africans are the major supports of the companies in the city, these companies continue to support school on racial preferences. In Montana in one street theww are two schools one African and the other Afrikaner. When drive around these two the amount of boards of support arw overwhelming. Yet on our schools you will find Cashbuild and an African Property company, yet parents are blinded of this truth.

The solution is to profile the business that are influenced by partiality and stop supporting them. In this page I will start profiling them one by one

02/09/2024

Happy birthday MaDlamini, my better half. Pray the good Lord continue to protect you in all. I love you

02/09/2024

We preach the gospel historically they reject it, we preach it doctrinally they reject it, we preach it Scientically they reject it, we preach it Philosophically they reject it. We preach by our lifestyles they reject it. There is one thing we know, as Jeremiah alluded "their hearts are evil" in the midst of all the prevailing quagmires "WE ARE NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS, BECAUSE IT IS POWER TO SALAVATION"

23/08/2024

The missing history in our textbooks:

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The Untold History
The battle of Mbolompo: What really happened?
The Battle of Mbolompo: Taken from the book “Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c.1780-1867)”

By Timothy Joseph Stapleton

In the early 1820s, the Ngwane of Chief Matiwane had fled west of Natal towards Moshoeshoe’s mountate state, not Lesotho, only to be turned south by Griqua raiders. By 1826 or 1827 they had settled on the upperMtata River on the nortwestern edge of Mpondo territory. As Faku probably saw Matiwane’s group as both a threat and potential target, Mpondo warriors raided the Ngwane around 1827, but were driven off without much b***y. However, in 1828 the Ngwane were targeted by the British army as possible source of forced labour and cattle that could be brought into the Cape Colony.

In late July 1828 Major Dundas, a British officer who had just visited Faku to obtain intelligence on the area, led a mounted reconnaissance force of fifty armed settlers and many more Thembu allies against the Ngwane and seized 25000 cattle pus an unknown number of female prisoners. The effectiveness of colonial fire-power in this operation greatly impressed both Faku and Hintsa, the Gcaleka king. Faku saw an opportunity to launch another raid against the Ngwane. Therefore, Colonel Henry Somerset’s main colonial army which consisted of about one thousand mounted khoikhoi riflemen and armed settlers alond with several howitzers, attached the Ngwane on 27 August, they were assisted by not only Ngubencuka’s Thembu but also Mpondo and Gcaleka warriors. It may be significant that around this time Faku was attempting to secure alliance with the Thembu by sendig his daughtr, Nonesi, to become the great wife of their king. According to Victor Poto Ndamase, Faku “was requested by Ngubencuka to come and help him in the battle with Matiwane at Mbolompo.”

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A Mpondomise oral account from the late nineteenth century describes the rather one-sided engagement: “The amaNgwane made no stand, but fed and went into the bushes. The reports of the guns were very dreadful, none of the native allies fought, they looked on in astonishment. The report of the cannon was fearful, it was directed into the bush; women and children screamed, and the cattle bellowed, and all came out of the forest towards where the army was, and were captured.”

Over seven hundred Ngwane’s were killed and the white farmers brought over one hundred women and children back to the colony. The Thembu Gcaleka and Mpondo returned to their respective homes with many cattle and prisoners. A Zulu oral tradition indicates that a considerable number of Ngwane went to live under Faku. Interestingly, the Reverend Shrewsbury of Butterworth mission purchased a pregnant woman for two cows from a Gcaleka who had participated in the raid. Just as Fynn had done, Somerset, the British commander, covered his actions by maintaining that he had heroically defended the colony and its African neighbors from an advancing Zulu army.

Subsequently, this massive labour and livestock raid against the Ngwane was disguised as the “Battle of Mbolompo.”

Taken from the book “Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom (c.1780-1867)”

Written By Timothy Joseph Stapleton

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I felt tears rolling down my eyes when I read this, I could just imagine what happened to my people. I wonder if the colored people in Western Cape carry our blood, I wonder what happened to the children, the pregnant woman who was bought by a reverend. This is our history and must be told and known by all of our children, this destruction which happened in Mbolompo nearly cost us the life of our Nation. We are now scattered all over the country with our people speaking different languages thanks but no thanks to the Mfecane.

We shall re-write our history and unite our people.

by: Sizwe kaMasumpa Hlongwane

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08/08/2024

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08/08/2024

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16/07/2024

This is what Media is hiding from you to make DA look good.

His name is Cilliers Brink. He is a mayor of Tshwane Metro Municipality. The Municipality is now broke under this man. There is no money to pay service providers.

Money for basic service delivery like patching potholes and filling posts is done. There are Vacancies at Tshwane but no one is going to be employed because this men finished all the money.

According to the last quarterly report adopted by Council, Tshwane is running on unfunded budget.

In Tshwane. Invoices are waiting for more that 30 days. Something that destroy black business because when their invoices are not paid they can't pay workers and rent.

DA is clean on newspapers and TV. But in reality they are lazy, incompetent and corrupt. You will never read about this on media because they always protect the image of DA.

02/07/2024

The Biden/ Trump debate format would help us to understand which party should choose a president for us. Ramaphosa thinks exactly like Biden, but had been popularized by power from the media and colonialists.

As a Christian leader and for the benefit of all the people I influence in society, I would love to point out that future is bleak for well meaning and assertive Africans under his tenure. He is not a leader but a manager and a proxy. If I could decide to write a book about him I would really be a villain to many dissenters and reactionary forces, who have sacrificed the future of our children at the altar of convenience, greed and stomachs. This is due to the gold chains philosophy coined by their handlers of better black, first black, only black, richest black and only these coconut inspired assertions and aspirations. In brief this man has no political ideology, the nation of South Africa is slumbering and celebrating the reversal of gains of freedom, to be trapped with so-called democracy without emancipation. I WAS JUST THINKING OUT LOUDLY.