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I tweet for me boo 😭 Twitter for the OGs was basically a diary. We wasn’t sitting around chasing engagement . You just had a thought, tweeted it, and kept scrolling. If somebody saw it, cool. If they didn’t, oh well 😂 Twitter originally wasn’t even about likes like that. It was just people broadcasting their random ass thoughts into the universe.
.@ProfJNMoyo wants me to explain to him in detail why I say #NoToCAB3. I don’t really have time to engage him individually, but if there’s sufficient interest from all of you, I’ll find time.
So if we can get 1k RTs, I’ll do a series of posts/videos explaining each issue. Deal?
𝐙𝐮𝐥𝐮, 𝐍𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭: 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐚, 𝐌𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐳𝐢
Meetings between Zulu King MisuZulu kaZwelithini and ceremonial Ndebele King Bulelani Lobengula Khumalo - a legitimate descendant of founding Ndebele King Mzilikazi - has been widely described as a major historic event; part of a broader rapproachement between the Zulu and Ndebele nations, which share historical and ancestral ties.
The meetings symbolise a reunion between Zulu King Shaka and Ndebele nation founder King Mzilikazi, two historical military greats of the region during the early 19th century.
Shaka and Mzilikazi, who were friends and worked together to lay the foundation of the Zulu Kingdom, had a major historic split in 1822 at the height of Mfecane; times of trouble, a regional conflict which triggered massive migration from present-day South Africa all the way to Tanzania.
For years, there had been attempts to heal the historical split and the wound associated with Shaka and Mzilikazi’s consequential clash.
Shaka was the son of Zulu Chief Senzangakhona, while Mzilikazi was a progeny of a Khumalo clan Chief Mashobane in Zululand.
Mzilikazi helped Shaka build the Zulu Kingdom during its nascent stages before he left in a historic breakaway after disagreements over the spoils of Zulu military raids into neighbouring states, mostly the Sotho nation - cattle.
Whenever Zulu elders meet their Ndebele brethren, they always ask jokingly: "Ziphi inkomo zenkosi?" (where is the King's cattle).
Mzilikazi, a top Zulu chief and military commander of the time, left after refusing to surrender to Shaka the cattle he had raided.
Their subsequent split was rather acrimonious, although the two did not fight directly.
Mzilikazi fought battles and ruled parts of the Transvaal before he was further pushed north into Botswana and Zambia, then Zimbabwe.
His other group crossed directly from South Africa into Zimbabwe.
MisuZulu is the son of the late King Zwelithini, a descendant of Shaka's brothers through the bloodline of King Cetshwayo, King Mpande and King Dingane.
Dingane and Mpande were Shaka's half-brothers, Senzangakhona's sons from different mothers.
Bulelani is recognised by the mainstream Khumalo house as the legitimate heir to the Ndebele nation, which was overthrown by Cecil John Rhodes' colonial forces during the Anglo-Ndebele War in
in 1893.
His history is a bit complex due to historical twists and turns across Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Bulelani is a South African citizen. He was born and bred in Grahamstown (Makhanda) in the Eastern Cape where there is a Lobengula museum, although his descendants, specifically Njube, son of Lobengula, were taken from Zimbabwe to there by Rhodes in a bid to dismantle the Ndebele Kingdom, the last bulwark to colonial invasion.
Bulelani is a great-great-grandson of Lobengula, descending through Njube.
Originally, Bulelani's roots by ancestry are in present-day KwaZulu-Natal as his descendants came to Zimbabwe from there with their famous leader Mzilikazi.
They were then sent back to South Africa by colonial authorities.
Although his role is currently not recognised by the Zimbabwean government as a ceremonial king, Ndebeles have widely embraced him as their cultural leader.
There have been pretenders to the throne who include Peter Zwide KaLanga Khumalo and Stanley Raphael Tshuma who claims to be a Khumalo, calling himself King Mzilikazi II.
In September every year, the Ndebele nation commemorates Mzilikazi Day to mark his death in 1868.
The cultural event attracts huge crowds, bringing together the Ndebele nation and related bigger Nguni groups in South Africa, Zambia, Malawi and Tanzania.
Mozambique is being lobbied to send its delegations from the Shangani people, who are also Nguni descendants from the Zulus.
Shanganis - not Ndau or Tsonga - are of Nguni descent.
🔴Caption: Zulu King MisuZulu in brown and Ndebele King Bulelani in black and white.
Something culturally significant happened today. Zulu King, Misizulu met with King Bulelani of the Matebele nation of King Mzilikazi. 200 years after King Shaka & Mzilikazi parted ways in war, the 2 nations have founded each other again. Africa mayibuye! @RealMzalaTom@MimiReeds
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SAMUEL IS GLOWING 🥹❤️❤️
Life is crazy , money remains the biggest skin care . Weeks ago Samuel had almost nothing , he was struggling with his mother and praying to God to help him and God linked him to his helper .
As we speak he has a good shelter , scholarship and over 19 million in his account . God is truly not man .
Moral lesson : Samuel did not stay home and was begging on Facebook or Instagram . He was on the streets hustling , that’s where his helper met him . Start doing something today .
Michael J. Fox met his wife, Tracy Pollan, when she played the role of his girlfriend, Ellen, on Family Ties.
They were married on July 16, 1988 and have been since having four children: one son and three daughters.
NEW: 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore.
The family was on kayaks & paddleboards when they were swept about 2.5 miles out to sea.
After a conversation with his mother, Austin Appelbee decided he would swim back to shore to find help.
Appelbee says he prayed throughout the four-hour swim and told God he would get baptized if he made it out alive.
"I don't think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, 'I'll get baptized.'"
"The waves are massive, and I have no life jacket on… I just kept thinking 'just keep swimming, just keep swimming,'" he said.
"And then I finally made it to shore, and I hit the bottom of the beach, and I just collapsed."
Appelbee says when he got to shore, he had to sprint for about a mile to find help.
According to AP, the family drifted 9 miles from Quindalup and spent 10 hours in the water.
When he reached the shore, Appelbee alerted authorities, who then sent out a helicopter to find his mom, 12-year-old brother, and 8-year-old sister.
Austin's mother, Joanne Appelbee, said one of the hardest decisions of her life was sending her son to shore.
"One of the hardest decisions I ever had to make was to say to Austin: 'Try and get to shore and get some help. This could get really serious really quickly,'" she said.
What a remarkable kid.
Video: 7 News.
@ChuksEricE Wao when it's God’s time no man can Put asunder. The reverence reminds me of how Samuel's mother had committed to God and promised to give him to serve him[ [God] her prayers have been answered through Samuel and whole generation gets to tell a different story because of faith🙌
Breaking News 🥹🥹🥹❤️❤️
Samuel has now OFFICIALLY Received 8 million Naira cash , food stuffs worth 650k and Scholarship to study from secondary to university level .
His mother who was washing dresses for people , begging food to feed her children and selling pure water received 1 million Naira cash to start up her business of selling oil .
All this money was donated by people who were touched by Samuels gratefulness .
This life is crazy , When God wants to change your life he doesn’t care about your Qualifications. He takes you to the top even without that .
Moral lesson : And we have people who say don’t help with cameras ? Without cameras their life won’t change like this .