In 1992 we experienced drought in our village #StoryTime
Rivers were getting drier, everything was dry, livestock was perishing, it was so bad. A community meeting was called & the decision was taken that the community will go to the mountain and ask uQamata for imvula....
Rivers were getting drier, everything was dry, livestock was perishing, it was so bad. A community meeting was called & the decision was taken that the community will go to the mountain and ask uQamata for imvula....
It announced that kuzozilwa for a number of days before kuyiwe entabeni. The day yokuya entabeni arrived and all the elders were wearing their ngcawaz, ingxowa zebhokhwe, izidanga namanqashela, oMama bebhinqe iminyotho yabo bethwele iqhiya ezinkulu bombatha amabhayi bafaka.. 
... incebeta, izikhaka zonke nje intsimbi zabo beqabe imbola ebomvu abanye, almost everyone was in their imibhaco amadoda anengcawa efake ingcawa kwaculwa ke ingoma zesiXhosa kwanyukelwa entabeni.. "Masiy'embo Masiy'embo singabaphi na thina". Izindlu zaziEmpty everyone was there
Kwafikwa phezu kwentaba kwaqhunyiswa impepho and they started ukunqula kuQamata becela imvula, a long ceremony and then the people of the village behla intaba kwagodukwa with hope that uQamata namanyange basivile isicelo sabo.On the same night the rain came heavy 4 days
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