Nelson Mandela: The Rise of Madibaism.

Ideally, from conception until death, humans are peaceful beings and the most impactful violence experienced in the process is during birth giving. The pain experienced by the mother can last up to 8 hours or longer. When the infant pops out, it always cries because it too has experienced the violence when the uterus contracts to give the mother a breather to continue pushing. The birth violence is quickly forgotten as the process starts again for the next siblings at a later stage. The birth violence is painful but endurable because it emanates from love. The bond between the mother and the child is unbelievably mysterious. If men were to go into labour to give birth, I believe that they would do it once and no more but women do it again and again and sometimes risking their own lives. Regardless of their sex or gender, infants and the mothers quickly forget about the violence experienced at birth and bond together in love. Humans are peaceful but tend to turn violent as a reactio...

With Somizi Mhlongo the saying 'simply the best' doesn't resonate too far but hits the target. He's one of a kind and there's never been two. I always have to be reminded by my wife that I'm gawking everytime Somizi appears on the TV screen and I always give the same reply that he won't mind because he doesn't see me. It's not like I'm watching from the window behind the curtain. You can always feel the eyes on you behind the curtain as you walk in the streets. If you don't feel eyes on you as you walk the streets then you definitely don't make an impact on anyone. You are as good as dead. Somizi's star shine so bright it's like his parents prayed, fasted, consulted a sangoma (traditional healer) and burned impepho (incense) prior to making love and conceiving him. It's as if the sangoma adviced his parents to only make love on Sundays and no other particular day to conceive the child. Sunday is a special day in many ways, n...

A few years after the birth of our Rainbow Nation I found myself standing in a queue with my late friend at the Randburg Pick n Pay. There was a white guy standing in front of a black fellow. This white guy was carrying a child of about 4-5 years in his arms, probably his daughter. The young girl poked the father and pointed at the black fellow standing behind them and asked, 'daddy, is he also a Kaffir?' You can imagine the father's embarrassment as he dashed out of the store. Fast forward to 2020. I don't know if Bianca Schoombee is the same girl at the Randburg Pick n Pay a long time ago but she most definitely fits the bill. One would expect young boys to be influenced by and emulate their fathers behaviour, after all, men tend to short circuit and exhibit irrational behaviour.  From the Biblical times until recently, women have been known to be timid and caring. Women are not known to hate except when necessary, like in defense of their offspring. Women are pri...

Last week almost brought the aSASSAnation of Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu when the system responsible for the payment of all SASSA dependents got infected by the nasty Coronavirus. Payment scheduled for the 4th and 5th of May experienced a computer glitch that resulted in some grant recipients receiving their payment twice in one day.  It must have been a joyous moment for those that received double payment because they had been made to stand in long queues. Among those in the queues were the elderly, the frail, the disabled and caregivers. These poor people were pushing each other without a single thought of social distancing in line with the government's imposed Lockdown. They were all in a hurry to get paid out before the possible impossible happened such as Loadshedding or a strike by bank tellers.  Not so long ago, before the election of Cyril Ramaphosa to Presidency of South Africa, scores of vehicles emblazoned with ANC emblems that encouraged the v...

The world woke up to the news that the Covid19 originated from South Africa according to https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1280415/coronavirus-outbreak-south-africa-china-covid19-wuhan-spt as well as Audrey Delsink who is the wildlife director of the African branch of Humane Society International (HSI). Audrey Delsink is not one of the Scientist involved in the research as to the origin of the deadly Covid19 and it may be possible that she is not a scientist by profession nor is she an accredited WHO spokesperson on matters related to Coronavirus. Audrey Delsink may be working for Bell Pottinger for all we may know and her credibility is questionable since the organisation express.co.uk claims she works for is unknown to many. Coronavirus has killed more than 81000 people in the United States of America with over 1348000 infected, whereas 286700 people have died and almost 4193400 infected worldwide. South Africa has the lowest number of Covid19 related deaths and infected peop...

Dear former President Jacob Zuma. Hope you're well. I thought that I will see you in the SASSA queue last week. Not that I'm SASSA recipient but my parents are and with the Lockdown upon us, I had to accompany my parents to get their pension with the hope that they would at least borrow me R200. You see Mr. Zuma, times are hard and with this Covid19 Lockdown in place in South Africa, uncertainty has become a certainty. Mr. Zuma, imagine my disappointment when I couldn't see you among the SASSA recipients in the queue. I'd already rehearsed as to how I would approach you and MaNtuli among your throng of bodyguards to ask if you could each spare me a R100 and with the R200 I was expecting from my parents I would at least have R400. In these days of 0% alcohol consumption, having R400 is a luxury. I don't know if you did come after I had left Mr. Zuma but the police ejected me from the SASSA queue because they said I looked suspicious. There were lots of suspici...