thabisonkoana 🇿🇦

wordsmith/believer/hugger of trees/smile enthusiast .... it's a list I got from the aliens.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

"Thus it came to pass
The People covenant with Daughter Earth
From whose matswele
Ba ba bonwa ba anya
Mašwi a Badimo
byala ba mabele
Indulgence in which
Remains a reminder of the four legged horse that falls" - That Ancience of Preservation #WordsmithDiaries

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@Tshwanebus2 The Waterkloof Ridge evening bus has been inconsistent for the past 5 weeks. It usually arrives at Castle Gate, Erasmus Park between 18h15 & 18h25. Pls look into this. We’ve paid for buss service. We’re being forced to use taxis every evening which is outside budget.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@Tshwanebus2 provide reliable service? Busses often arrive late, if at all. Esp evening. No replacement for absent drivers. I work at Castle Gate & the 18h20 Waterkloof Ridge bus been inconsistent for past two weeks. I paid, why must I spend extra on taxis? Get your act together.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@A_RE_YENG What does “ongoing operational challenges” mean? How long is it going to take? This notice tells us nothing really. Just that we are going to be inconvenienced for an unknown amount of time.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

😂😂🤣

[Thintitha. @lifeandtimesv]

Hi @SAPoliceService

@WOOLWORTHS_SA is charging us R36.99 for a pie.

Please treat this matter with utmost urgency.

Regards.
Thintitha

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

I did not know that @helenzille said this. And here I was getting all excited that the beach was coming to Jozi ...

[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

I have seen many people criticising @Anele for raising race in her interview with @helenzille, which I posted yesterday. She had a journalistic obligation to do so because of the racist statements Zille made just this year.

Helen Zille’s statement below is not only racist, it is shallow and historically dishonest. It deliberately strips away the very conditions that made Afrikaner success possible, pretending it was simply about hard graft, education, and enterprise.

Afrikaner upliftment was not organic or based on equal opportunities. It was engineered through a racist state policy after 1948, when the National Party entrenched apartheid as law.
Billions of Rands in subsidies, preferential state contracts, protectionist laws, and land dispossession ensured that Afrikaners, even those from poor “bywoner” backgrounds, were elevated at the expense of black South Africans.

It is well documented in books that job reservation under the “civilised labour policy” guaranteed Afrikaners jobs while locking Africans out of skilled work. Access to land, credit, and education was systematically racialised. These structural inequalities still exist today.

So Anele was right to ask those questions, because someone who wants to run Africa’s richest city should not be this racist or this dishonest 31 years after apartheid. Journalism required Anele to raise those questions that referenced race.

To say “nothing is stopping everyone else” is insulting in a country where the majority African people were denied the vote, forced off their land, and subjected to inferior Bantu Education by the same Afrikaner-led government.
Even today, black South Africans inherit the structural inequality that apartheid designed, something Afrikaners never had to overcome. To deny that is not leadership, it is dishonest!

[Chester Missing @chestermissing]

Helen vs Anele.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

I'm not an EFF member or voter, but I like this idea. Don't know about the Voortrekker Monument though. That's a monumental task.

[Economic Freedom Fighters @EFFSouthAfrica]

The EFF’s Statement on Heritage Day 2025

-As part of marking that the heritage of African people is not the celebration in public spaces of genocidal colonialists and land thieves, the EFF has introduced a motion in Parliament to remove all Apartheid statues and symbols from public spaces. This includes the removal of monuments that glorify the conquest of Africans such as the Voortrekker Monument, the statue of Louis Botha in front of the Parliament of South Africa, the monuments of Paul Kruger and Jan Van Riebeek across the nation.

The EFF is confident that all these symbols, designed to perpetuate the idea of the supremacy of white supremacists will be removed through legislative mechanisms from public spaces, and put in a designated area where they can be observed and admonished as part of a history that will never again be repeated.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

On that note Bra @ThabisoTema I want to wish all @Powerfm987 retail workers a #HappyHeritageDay without whom many cooler boxes would be empty and picnic blankets bare were it not for them being at work today #PowerBreakfast

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

Ek se @ThabisoTema hoezit? Just like you, some of us have to go to work. Ke busy ke iron a uniform. Have a good one fede and #HappyHeritageDay to the @Powerfm987 and #PowerBreakfast family. HOLA...👊🏿

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

Greetings @ThabisoTema and @Powerfm987 fam. This is why I'm glad I wear uniform to work. The thinking is done for me. Seriously though, I think for me it's simple, keep it neat, keep it clean and keep it simple. And a good fit is the icing, not Gwede size suits! #PowerBreakfast

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@ThabisoTema Thank you kindly

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@ThabisoTema and @Powerfm987 family. Greetings. Two quick questions, does @myNSFAS fund postgraduate studies and is there an age limit? I don't see anything on their website. I ask because I'm 44 and need funding for my master's #PowerBreakfast

[Grumpy Pa @iskunka]

This topic always causes a lot of debates. The origin of VaTsonga people, whether they come from Soshangane? are they Nguni? Difference between Tsonga and Shangaan?

Here is an interesting long read for those who need to be informed🧵

Tsonga settlements historically stretched from St Lucia Bay in Northern part of today’s KwaZulu Natal up to the upper Save river in Mozambique, covering parts of Swaziland, Mpumalanga, Northern Kruger National Park and South Eastern Zimbabwe.

VaTsonga are a diverse people, generally including several smaller ethnic groups.
These groups belonged to different chiefdoms and differed in dialect, though they were linguistically and culturally similar.

Tsonga communities could historically be divided into these dialects:

(a) Hlengwe-mainly found in the upper Limpopo river and Save river in Mozambique and Southern Eastern Zimbabwe.
(b) Hlanganu- historically found in Swaziland, Mpumalanga Kruger National Park and between Sabie and Nkomati rivers in Mozambique.
(c) Dzonga (South)-found between the Sabie and Nkomati rivers
(d) N’walungu (North)- mainly found between Limpopo and the Olifants River
(e) Vatshwa-mainly found in Inhambane in Mozambique
(f) Xika-mainly found in North East Nkomati in Mpumalanga
(g) Ronga (East) – mainly found in the Northern KwaZulu Natal and Maputo region in Mozambique.
(h) Bila (Vila)-found in Bileni in Mozambique, And others.

Before colonisation, VaTsonga people did not originally call themselves “Tsonga” as a collective nation. They identified more by their clans. But Due to the similarities of the language and culture of these initial Tsonga ethnic groups, the colonial government between 1815 and 1830 gave them the name Tsonga to constitute a single community.

So vaTsonga tribe is NOT a branch from the Nguni Tribes. Tsonga clans long existed even before Soshangane invention.

Some Tsonga clans were just neighboring Nguni tribes, such as the vaRonga (Thonga) clan which lived side by side with some Zulu clans, and Mkuzi river as a boundary between the communities. These communities interacted with each other for a while hence words shared between Tsonga and Zulu languages today can also be owed to that.

After King Shaka defeat the Zwide (Ndwandwe) kingdom, Soshangane who was a military commander of the Ndwandwe fled with some Ndwandwe followers to the route along the eastern hills of Lubombo. He defeated the Tsonga tribes (Vatsonga) in those regions.

He went further north and subjugated other tribes such as vaRonga, vaNdzawu, Shona, Chopi to establish his Shangaan kingdom. This means the Shangaan tribe is an assimilation of some Tsonga tribes with the Nguni tribes which came with Soshangane.

He married their daughters and eventually started a community which adopted Nguni customs and their language was diluted. His community was called Amashangane, which was also used as a slur by AmaZulu to refer to the defeated and infiltrated Nguni’s (from Ndwandwe)

BUT he did NOT conquer nor rule all Tsonga tribes. Some VATsonga tribes retained independence and continued living without in their respective chiefdoms. Tribe such as vaN’walungu, vanN’wanati were never ruled by Soshangane. They established themselves in the northern part of Kruger. And also the Nkuna, Valoyi, Mavundza and Rikhotso refused to accompany Soshangane to war.

That is why today VaTsonga people do not have a king that rules over them collectively. Tsonga kings only rule their respective regions. it is difficult to conclude who must be king because of their origin, also since there was no king that conquered them collectively.

Soshangane’s army went further to conquer the Portuguese settlements in Mozambique, at Delagoa Bay, Inhambane and Sena, and during the next few years, he established the Nguni kingdom of Kwa Gaza, which he named after his grandfather, Gaza. The Gaza Kingdom comprised parts of what are now southeastern Zimbabwe, as well as extending from the Save River down to the southern part of

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

Greetings @ThabisoTema and @Powerfm987 family. Mara Ntate Zuma doesn't purchase neh? This elder goes to Qwaqwa ko Vrystata and insists on deep isiZulu. Talk about confirming stereotypes ... 😅 #PowerBreakfast

[Gayton McKenzie @GaytonMcK]

I’m glad @kalliekriel clarified the white genocide nonsense, there is no white genocide happening in South Africa, we have a crime problem, not a crime problem that targets whites only but all of South Africans.

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] Nelson Mandela Foundation board chairperson Dr Naledi Pandor says people whose exports will no longer go to the USA if President Donald Trump's threats get implemented must protest against AfriForum. "...and demand payment at the same level they would have received had they been able to export to the USA". #Newzroom405

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

😂😂🤣

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

Graphic Content !

A black man forcing white people to eat food after hours of torturing them in South Africa 🇿🇦

[PSAFLIVE @PSAFLIVE]

WATCH: Al Jazeera's @soraya_lennie has just released an unbiased report on Elon Musk and Donald Trump South African genocide

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

@SandileKaMsibi @ali_naka @elonmusk @POTUS He banna … This guy … 🤦🏾‍♂️😆

[thabisonkoana 🇿🇦 @thabisonkoana]

These guys never learn

[RT @RT_com]

British & French secretly discuss sending troops to Ukraine if there’s a ‘ceasefire’ in peacekeeper role — The Telegraph