The debate on the Xhosa Traditional
Attire is interesting.
Traditionally nothing was worn just because it looked nice. Colours, fabric, beadwork or even the length of a skirt and whether shoulders were covered all carried meaning. Clan. Status.
Whether you’d been initiated, married, or were in mourning. Red ochre wasn’t a colour choice, it was identity and even resistance. A makoti’s dress wasn’t a style, it was respect made visible.
So the questioning isn’t hate or policing fun. It’s people watching a whole language get flattened into aesthetics, and knowing that once the meaning goes it rarely comes back.
We can wear what we want, that’s our right. Let’s just know what we’re carrying before remixing it.
Why must it alumnus? Why is it not 19 year old man? Also, almost one year after matric, he must have an up to date publicly available photo where he is not in his old uniform. Izimanga zabelungu get sanitized by the mainstream media. Lousy reporting overall.
This is not just telenovela, it reflects what happens when women are taught to endure instead leave, when men are never held accountable, and when children are forced to grow up inside dysfunction. Jonasi is the villain, but he does not operate alone.
#ThePolygamist
Jonas contracted the 2004/2005 HIV, previously known as Z3. You find out today, are bedridden the next week, and die within the third week.
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