Mngani, ndiyabulela for engaging. Let’s learn together instead of calling each other names 🥴 doesn’t build nations, knowledge does.
You’re right on 1 thing:
Yebo, “Xhosa” is an umbrella term today. Just like “Zulu” is. Just like “Sotho” is.
Xhosa nation = amaMpondo, amaMpondomise, amaBhaca, amaXesibe, amaThembu, amaMfengu, amaGcaleka, amaRharhabe, etc. Many kingdoms, one language family, shared customs. That’s history 101. No dispute there.
But you’re wrong on 1 thing:
“No Mpondomise nation that came out of Zulu” - I never said they “came out of Zulu” mngani. I said Zulu + Xhosa + Mpondomise all share Nguni roots from Central/North Africa migration 400+ years ago. Same family tree, different branches.
Mpondomise have their own king, their own land, their own history. Respected. No one is claiming they’re “from Zulu”. That would be arrogant. And I’m not arrogant mngani, I’m curious.
Where we both must read more:
1. Nguni migration - We all came down from up north. Then we branched.
2. Mfecane/Difaqane - 1800s wars pushed clans everywhere. That’s how amaMfengu ended up in Xhosa areas, amaHlubi in Zulu areas. We mixed.
3. Pride vs Arrogance - Pride says “I know my history”. Arrogance says “You know nothing”. I choose pride with humility.
So let’s drop “ignorant & arrogant”. Let’s pick “students of history”. Because the more we learn about amaMpondomise, amaZulu, amaThembu, the more we see: We’re cousins who survived different wars.@Mzanziawake
Africa is underdeveloped because:
1) Every nationalistic leader was murdered, and the current leaders are obedient puppets to the Western hegemonies.
2) Western companies continue to steal resources.
3) They continue to fund coups/instabilities, preventing any chance of peace, which would have instigated development.
@Lindy_nzabe I her defense I think the guy didn't even pitch up during the week just to support. We can stay in the car and mogal can come when she is free. But as a boyfriend the actual day of the two events would mean you have to choose your brother and rock to her home later.
South Africa remains the only former British colony where importation of labour became policy of the empire as the Natives refused to work for the colonists
Indians were imported as indentured labourers[sugar cane] then the Chinese[gold mines] later African men from across SADC
@KINGGGE_ Nah the problem is you and your wife, they can tolerate you because you are their blood. The whole family cannot just gang up on your wife unnecessarily.