Proudly South African

This weekend was a long weekend due to the public holiday yesterday, as most South Africans know, it was Heritage Day, a day to showcase how proud we are of our South African culture and diversity. I must say, people wore thier different but very colourful traditional gowns it made me soo proud to be South African.

South African has come a long way in terms of the struggle, racial segregation and accepting another's differences in terms of skin colour, languages and yes cultural backgrounds, which country doesn't? The truth is, I am proud to be South African, a country that is rich in heritage, with the spirit of ubuntu and a past but most importantly, South Africa has a future a future that is literate free and open-minded.

One may ask what makes me South African? Well.. it is my culture, my languages and linguas. I was bought in the Xhosa culture although I am not 100% Xhosa but I have Xhosa in my blood, I can read, write and speak isiXhosa as my mother strongly wanted me to know my home language and never ever forget so I can teach it to my children in that way my culture will never be forgotten. AmaXhosa are the most out-spoken, funny, clever but very fiesty people, yes we Xhosa women we are known as husband stealers, good liars and cheats, maybe that may be true is for some people but I don't think so, all I know is that amaXhosa know what they want and are not afraid to go get what they want, some people call that being forwad but I call us go-getters.

South African has 11 official languges namely isiXhosa, isiZulu, SeSotho, sePedi, English, thsiVenda, seTswana, seTsonga, Afrikaans, seSwati and Ndebele, I can't speak all the languges but atleast I can undestand half of them. Being South African means you can push boundries, rise above all expectations and never sieze to amaze, first we fought apartheid, won the rugby World cup, won the 2010 bid and made it a success, while everybody was doubting we would, we deliver in soccer, cricket, Olympic and we are totally outstanding in Palympics, yes we have lil as well as major hick-ups here and there but which country doesn't? We are slowly developing and getting in the World stage level. Afterall Johannesburg is South African is Africa's New York, it is a place where many go with the hopes of making it big time or hitting it rock-bottom.

I might not know for sure whether I am Swati or Zulu but I proud to be Zulu, Xhosa and Swati as long as I am South African, a country that is alive with possibiloties.

I am a proud South African... Signed, Sealed and Delieved!!

The Beauty Of Loving Someone and Being Loved Back

I must admit I think I've in love and in lust once in my life time, if I may say so myself, it felt soo damn good for a moment I think I lost myself or broke out of my lil shell, it all depends on how you look at it and which perspective. The truth is love, I mean real love changes things, changes how you look at things how you do certain things and teaches you things you never knewabout yourself.

Loving someone is something else, but being in love with someone who loves you more is plain beautiful. Knowing that the one you'd give the world to in just a heart-beat will be willing to do the same for you and the same pace, wow! I know you must be thing that I'm in love with someone right now, but I'm not, I'm actually single and being single has taught me or reminded me rather of things I've totally lost track of, like myself, my worth, my dreams and ambitions but mostly my passion. I'm not implying that being in a reasons makes you lose who you are but the truth is sometimes you have to compromise who you are to accommodate the other person, guess what? I've learned to be selfish again but realised that love is a beautiful thing that needs to be cherished but only with the one you love, I'm not in love #StraightFace.

A good relationships is not built on lies, cheating and selfishness, its built on trust and honesty. Honestly we all want to loved although sometimes we are not loved by people whom we wish could love us but loved by the ones we least expect to love us, but Love is beautiful and we should embrace it instead of always trying to hide it to impress people. If you love some and that someone love you back, than you are in love, and that, that is very beautiful don't ever mess with it nor go out of your way to drive your partner away coz you might wake up and realise that you'll never love like that again and he/she is not coming back to you as the hurt was too deep.

Love those who love you, because once they are gone nothing is going to replace that special person nor take his/her place. Love those who love you and forget all those that don't.

PS
I Love Love!

Izikhothane

Izikhothane a popular name given to the youngsters in the townships with expensive taste, these children wear thee most expensive brands, food, clothes and even hire micro buses worth thousands of rands to drive them around while they brag about how much money they have got.

South African townships have some of the most poor people in South Africa, excluding people in the rural areas, there is a high level of iliteracy, but than again many businesses boom in these townships fast food, shebeens and clothing stores gain the most, people are raising thier standards of living. black people are getting credit almost every where they apply, I guess there is a lot of money in the "black market". An averarege black person in the township earns R5000.00 but spends more than they earn on brands, such as shoes, clothes, bags and accessories.

Izikhotha usually set a venue where by different crews will compete about how much they have, they brands they wear, they girls they date etc. Most of the youngsters who participate in such norms are usually high school children, they throw parties whereby they burn clothes, spill food around as a sign that they are not from poverty striken homes. What has this world turn into? you may ask, well it is just like that. The sad part is that these children  don't work and earn the money they waste and most of thier parents or guardians who support thier expensive lifestyles (financially), can't even afford all the things they buy, they are bought in credit, some parents don't know that thier children do such things but they hide what they do and ask for money for books, educational trips or choose not to eat during lunch time and save the money for months.

Some of the children come from extremely poor homes, whereby they only survive with grant money which they get from the government but still partake in these activities saying it boosts thier self-esteem and instantly gives them popularity and acceptance among thier peers and girls but what they want the most is respenct. The sad part about all this is that, most steal all the money that spend in brands such as Versace, Carvella, Levis, Guess, Nike, Addidas and many more. Most girls fall into a trap whereby they end up sleeping around these groups, sometimes its peer-pressure but at times it is what they call "LOVE".

My advice to parents is that they should monitor thier children's behaviour both at school and on the streets, when a child reaches his/her teen years, they reach a point where all they do is right as long as thier peers like it. Look at the books, check results, consult with teachers, know thier friends and mostimportantly know your children, what they like, thier goals, thier ambitions and instill good values in them so they don't go out there and do stupid things that would one day lend them in hot water. a child is taken to school to learn not brag about how much his/her family earns, it not thiers. Last but not least give kids pocket money that they will be able to manage for kids thier age.


                                                                        

Seasons

From an early age a child is taught about four seasons Spring Summer, Winter and Autumn. we know that Spring is the time where by plants reproduce pollen and reflorish, in Summer everything is bright, the plants, clothing and very hot outside, for South Africa, it is during Christmas time when people feel generous and have a lot of cash to spend, than there's Autumn when the changes, leaves fall off the trees, the grass turn brown, preparing for Winter, a very cold and dark season. Days are shorter and nights are long.

What parents and our teaachers from nursery school and on Television as well are all true, however what did not teach us about season, are seasons of life, that each and everyone of us go through. I  wish my parents, particulary my mama taught me the rule regarding seasons, the seasons of tears, laughter and joy, season of being still and a season of losing. Growing up I didn't really notice these seasons, I'd feel lonely for a while but be okay eventually, I'd lose things shoes, toys, books, and there would be a time whereby I'm always over the moon and in a good mood than again I'd find myself crying a lot and isolating myself from my peers.

What i know for sure is that, God does things in mysterious ways just to remind us everyonce in a while that he is God incase we have forgotten or lost our way, hence he gives seasons, seaons to prosper us and strengthen our faith in Him and ourselves. He purposely let us go through rough, tough, times, cry and be broken down to humble us. I don't wanna sound like I'm preaching but I'm just letting yo'll know what I think, afterall my blogs are all about my thoughts and ideas.

I woke up down today, felt like it was all too much for me and that I just can't take it anymore and that I feel like picking up my bags and going home but than it dawn on me, if I don't waan go though those trails and tribulations who should? Atleast I can take but be able to still wake in the morning with a head held up high to protect this dream I have, a dream of prospering beyond the limitations that people have already made, judging me by my mistakes and certian qualities that I don't have,  but I will fulfill the destiny that God the man above have created me for, plant my seeds while waiting for my season of tears, lonelyness, hunger and heartache to end, till than I will not give up, forget nor be comfortable nor lower my standards, I don't settle I go for what I want and I hit hard when I attack.

P.S
I'm A Believer

AmaBerete are terrorising the townships of South Africa!

During Bheki Cele's reign as the head of the police force invented the unite where by policemen in berets instead of hats like other units would work closely with the people. Their jobs are to protect the society and make sure that there is order in the townships reducing the crime rate.

People in the townships in South Africa don't have it as easy as people in the suburban areas, to be honest, when power or water shortages start, they are the first to be affected, that can go for days without any notifications, warnings or any form of communication from the departments that run these necessities, it been that way since from the apartheid, so people are sort of immune to it. people just make the best of what they have now, their freedom, making money, working or generally doing their day-to-day routines as they please.

The South African townships has a lot of problems, or rather things that are not going well but the  current problem that people have is the the manner in which police terrorise our township. the whole point of having police in the country is so we could have people to keep the country safe, enforce the law and arrest those who go against the law, but somehow people have lost faith in the SAPS (South African Police Service), policemen beat, rape, steal and demand bribes from the citizens. Didn't apartheid end and democracy begin in 1994? what were people voting for? for this? I don't think so. People voted for the ANC to gain freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to do what they want, whenever as long as their rights do not infringe on the other person's rights.

AmaBerete (the men in berets) are brutal they sets specific time people should walk in the streets at  night, they burge in tavern, bars, shebeens and just search people without warrants, just a week ago on 3rd degree a footage of the beating and searching people was taken and shown tin national television, police brutality needs to stop! although those people were drinking but that didn't mean they did not have rights, amaBerete need to be either stopped or go back to school and learn the laws that South African citizens have because by the look of things they do not have a clue... This is a democratic country, people cannot be mistreated just because you are police, you enforce the law but that doesn't mean that you are above it.

The Marikana Massacre

The disastor that happened in Marikana proves that, South Africa still has a long way to go... Can you image, people who work in the mines, they sweat thier butts off for the wealth of this country day in day out, digging gold and minerals and the mine owners don't even have the decencey to appreciate them with a proper salary?

I don't even want to mention how these people died while striking for better salaries, in this recession who would appreciate earning R1 000.00 a month, can you imagine being a bread winner and yet earning that kind of money? What can you buy with such a small salary? The government seems to undermine the most important workers regarding the wealth of the country, yet these people work in dangerous conditions, earn close to nothing not forgetting thier residential places... when will things change? When will illiterate people get the same respect, treatment and resources as the rich and well connected people?

                                  

On the 16th of June 1976, students were fighting for thier education, so was the employees who died in Marikana, the police have the responsibility to protect, keep safe, enforce the law and arrest all those who commit crime, do they do that? NO! They rape women, hit men and now? Now they killed people, thirty four innocent people, just like the police in 1976. those people had the right to life and the police did not have the right to take those lives, just because they enforce the law it doesn't mean that they are above the law nor the people, and the did not even have the decency to apolise... We as South Africans. we need to stand up against police brutality, they abuse people way too much we need to take a stand. Yes they said there wasn't anything they could've done because these people were armed, don't COSATU and Municipal workers arm and damage property in the Joburg CBD? do they shoot and kill them? No, the pour water on them, so why kill these mine workers?

All the Head of police had to say was that the police had nothing else to do? Does she think she's God? did they give these people life just to take it away, just like that? South Africa has a long way to go, we need to take all the SAPS members back to school so they could remeber what it means to be in the SAPS, they think they own the country and they can do what they please with anyone, the massacre ruined the country's reputation, first it was the xenophobic attacks, now this this? this is not the democracy we vote for, that my forefathers fought for, it can't be!

They were parents, friends, brothers, lovers, workers and thier presence was important to people who knew them, not money in the world would replace them, no matter how expensive thier coffins may be or the amount of money that would be coughed up, every life is import and no one has the right to take thr life of another.

May the souls of the thirty four men rest in peace!

Love and Lust is the down fall of many...

Love is basically the validation that one is worth something in this world, if you not loved by the one person you bonded with before anyone knew your existence in this world, which is your mother really does live a big ass whole i your heart, the trueth is, we all want to be loved, rich, poor, fat or thin.

the ultimate victory in anyone's life is to find love, one may have money, lots of cars. expensibe clothes, jewellery and shoes but all in the end we want love, yes LOVE, why? you may ask because when you are loved you are wanted, there's a sense of warmth that is unexplainable you feel, life ain't so empty. Hence so many people have tried to define the four letter word but have'nt really found satisfaction, although we all know that its a feeling, an unexplainable feeling, it feels good, gives you a glow, a sense of belonging.

The truth is love ends or fades rather, although in my personal opinion I think we never really get over certian people we just find other people to think about,,, but what does one do when the LOVe is gone? start hating? scheme to plan the downfall of another? cry for days and shut yourself out of the world or simply stalk that person til he/she loves you back? the truth is you can never make some one love you no matter what you do, it will be totally up to that person to love and love the best way that they think they can not in a way that you want them to. the  resean LOVe has been the downfall of my is because we tend to have expectations of the other person without considering that the person we seek love from might not neccessarily return the love we give nor give us what we want in the exact form that we want the love returned.

The reason why LOVE is the downfall of my is because we give too much to people who wouldn't neccessarily give the same, had they had been in our situation. women often fall prey to men selfish men who buy them expensive clothes, cars, trips to the world and lead us to believe that they love us, make choose to be with them than with our friends, isolate us from family, all in the name of love, some women even give up thier dreams for men who leave them with children, STIs, the HIV virus, bitterness and trust issues... Who wants damged goods? No one! yet men continue to damage and take our innocence.

Say whatever you want, but LOVE is a losing game and if are not careful (not that you can control your feelings or measure how attached you can get) who you fall for and NEVER and I mean EVER turn your back on your dreams for a person in the name of love because LOVE fades and disappoints, trusst me I learned from the BEST!