Since It Is My Birthday Month, I Give Respect To Those Who Came Before Me. I Wouldn’t Be Alive If Sacubana Ngwenya Never Lived. Hopefully I Will Find My Blood In These Twitter Spaces Too. If You Are A Ngwenya In Zim And Of Sotho Heritage, You Will Love This…

🧵Thread History of Umdeni kaSacubana

According to the history that was presented to us by ubaba uBlackie Ngwenya, the Ngwenyas were Mzilikazi’s favorites such that when he died, his son Lobengula assigned the Ngwenyas (AbeSuthu) to guard King Mzilikazi’s grave.

conditions without complaining. When the Europeans came to colonize Africa, they did not just do that with the force they meted on Africans. Colonization was expedited by the use of religion, and in particular, Christianity. It seems Christianity has done the most in affecting the conscience of the black person in Africa. African traditional religions have been washed away, and especially with Christianity, they are viewed as pagan and heathen in nature.

22 Most Famous and Powerful kingdoms/Empires in the History of Afrika....Know who you Are

1) The Songhai Empire (1401-1600) -

Niger 🇳🇪, Mali 🇲🇱, Mauritania 🇲🇷, Senegal 🇸🇳, Nigeria🇳🇬, Guinea 🇬🇳, The Gambia🇬🇲, Algeria (south) 🇩🇿, Burkina-Faso🇧🇫, and Ivory Coast 🇨🇮, Chad 🇹🇩 2) The Kingdom of KMT and Cush over 11k history before invaders - Egypt 🇪🇬

The Khoi/San of East Africa, WaHadzabe.

The Hadza, or Hadzabe (Wahadzabe in Swahili),are a Tanzanian indigenous ethnic group mostly based in southwest Karatu District of Arusha. They live around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau. There are, as of 2015, between 1,200 and 1,300 Hadza people living in Tanzania, however only around 400 Hadza still survive exclusively based on the traditional means of foraging.

🧵 M A P U L A N A

MaPulana, are a low veld Sotho-Tswana ethnic group found in the northeastern part of the Mpumalanga and southeastern Limpopo provinces. Their language is called Sepulana (SeKutswe and Pai) and is considered dialect of the Northern Sotho language group. The area where the MaPulana live is called Mapulaneng, it stretches from Crocodile River in the south to the Swazi border (Mapulana of Mashego ) from Crocodile to Olifants River (Limpopo) in the north, Lebombo Mountains in the east and also includes the whole town of Hazyview,

Matebeleland South Traditional Mud Huts 🛖 in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

Which one is the most beautiful?

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BALOYI

Va ka Baloyi, Kumbe Varodzwi va tumbuluka etikweni ra Zimbabwe vatukulu va Changameri Dombo Hosi ya Varodzwi. Lowu i muti lowu tivekaka eka miti ya Vatsonga. Namuntlha kuna Miti mimbiri yaka Makhuva na Nwamitwa lava nga miti leyintsongo eka lowu wa vatukulu va Changamire vanga Tinhloko ta Muti wa vuhosi lowu yimeleke hi Madanci Xidlavuta Changamire Baloyi.
Xithopo Khalanga, mthondolovhana,munyayi, vale ncila a va ololi, loko vo olola wa tshoveka, va olola hi xigombo sangweni, va ma khandziya hi murhi ma ehla hi rhavi, va ma dyela ntshaveni.

The difference between Shangani and Tsonga

The Tsonga tribe originates from East Africa. They are a tribe without a king. They moved down to the southern Africa, namely Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa where other people and smaller clans from other tribes assimilated into them such the Nguni clans, Venda clans, Sotho clans, Shona clans, etc. There are two types of Tsonga tribes, Vatsonga-va-Xiviri na Vatsonga-va-Riririmi (Tsongas of Origin and Tsongas of language). With that said, Vatsonga-va-Ririmi are a tribe that lost its language then….

Traditional Ceremonies Of Zambia 🇿🇲

1) Kuomboka Ceremony

Each year in Zambia’s Western Province the Litunga – the King/Paramount Chief of the Barotse/ Lozi people, moves in a symbolic ceremony known as the Kuomboka (“get out of water”).
This ancient ceremony celebrates the.. move of the Litunga from his ‘summer’ home at Lealui in the flooded villages of the Barotse Floodplain, to his ‘winter’ home in Limulunga on the higher ground, until the flooded plains subside in June/July.

Kulamba Ceremony - A ceremony that unites Chewa people of Zambia 🇿🇲 , Malawi 🇲🇼 and Mozambique 🇲🇿

Kulamba Ceremony is the gathering of the Chewa in Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi. The Chewa chiefs pay homage to their King, His Majesty Kalonga Gawa. Historically, the Chiefs… and the people of the Kingdom petitioned the King with their troubles, while in modern times, after Kulamba was resurrected after being banned by the colonial regime, the ceremony has been focussed on the Chiefs updating their King on events within the Kingdom.

BaSotho-BaTswana-BaPedi-BaRotse-Bapolana Thread 🧵

The estimated Basotho population is over 25 million across Southern Africa. Bosotho population includes… Batswana (Western - Sotho), Bapedi (Northern Sotho), BaSotho (Southern Sotho), Bapulana (Eastern Sotho) BaRotse (Basotho in Zambia and Zimbabwe).

Waphinda wathinteka futhi kwezomzabalazo. Ngakho ke kulezakhiwo eMakhokhoba ezaqanjwa ngaye; zathiwa yiSiphambaniso Flats. UMakhokhoba kwakuligama lomLungu wakuqala owayekhangele lindawo; uNative Superintendent/ Native Inspector F. Falllon. Ngenxa yokukhula; wayekhokhoba yingakho wathiwa nguMakhokhoba. Nxa esezokhangela emahostela lasendlini; wayezwakala ngomqwayi wakhe owawuthi "kho kho kho".

MAKHOKHOBA/ LOKITSHINI

Lilokitshi elidala kulawo wonke koBulawayo. Usuke ungamazi ngokupheleleyo uBulawayo nxa ungakaze wafika kulindawo. AbaNtu bakhona balomfutho; njengoba libabona kulezi izithombe. Nxa sekumele kufukulwe "ezamzukwana" kuphuma yonke’into ongayicabanga Lindawo yakhiwa ngesikhathi uBulawayo esephenduka idolobho; ngo-1894. Ngesikhathi isakhiwa yathiwa yiNative Location; okuligama elakilizwa lathiwa yiLokitshini. Kwahlaliswa abansundu ababezodinga imisebenzi kulelidolobho elalisakhiwa.

Learn to take care of each other….

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THE FEMININE ABSORBS THE MASCULINE’S PROGRAMMING:

Every time someone enters your womb they are placing their subconscious programming into you

You are then impregnated with their code until you eventually produce fruit

If you have sex with toxic men, you will reproduce and amplify toxic fruit(manifestations).

Your womb is a portal to the unconscious or manifested world.

It is the dark void that transforms the spiritual world into the physical world.

From having no Shoes to wear to School to building one of the leading Sneaker brands in Africa.

Meet - Lekau Sehoana, inspirational Founder and CEO of Drip Footwear, a leading South African footwear brand offering authentic African high quality and stylish unisex SNEAKERS. It all started back in 2003 while Lekau was doing Grade 8, he was given an old torn Pair of Sneakers because he didn't have any Shoes to wear to a School Function. He removed the torn part and redesigned the Sneakers using Denim and Polyurethane.

Africa should take full advantage of current elevated prices to cash in on mineral wealth: The African continent is home to substantial reserves of #copper and #cobalt (in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—DRC—Zambia, South Africa and Zimbabwe), #diamonds (in Botswana and… Angola), #platinum (in South Africa and Zimbabwe), #uranium (in Namibia, Niger and South Africa), #gold (in Ghana, South Africa and Sudan), #iron (in South Africa), #manganese (in South Africa, Gabon and Ghana), bauxite (in Guinea), #lithium (in Zimbabwe), #coal (in South Africa

From being Homeless for 2 years to becoming a Professor of Geophysics. 

Meet - Prof. Musa Manzi, the first black South African to obtain a PhD in Geophysics. 

He was born and raised in Ndwedwe, a rural village in KwaZulu-Natal. His father died when he was 2 years old. Against all odds, at age 15, he matriculated with 100% in Mathematics. At age 16, he was accepted at the University of the Witwatersrand to pursue his tertiary studies. At age 18, his mother and sister died a day apart leaving him to take care of his two orphan nieces.

34 Southern Africa Top Facts
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🧵 thread 1. Madagascar 🇲🇬 is the fourth largest Island in the world.

2. Madagascar 🇲🇬 has the largest coastline in Africa.

3. South Africa 🇿🇦 is the only country to have hosted FIFA World Cup in Africa.

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY by
Kunu Matima

BLACK JUDASES IN TRAINING: WHY DID THE APARTHEID REGIME RECRUIT MOSTLY MEN FROM THE FORMER NORTHERN TRANSVAAL PROVINCE? AND THE BANTUSTANS OF LEBOWA, GAZANKULU AND VENDA AS COPS? WAS IT BECAUSE OF THE HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN THAT AREA OF SOUTH AFRICA?

MOST OF THESE COPS WERE BARELY LITERATE AND THEIR “POLICE STATEMENTS” WERE A JOKE OF MISSPELLED NAMES AND WORDS.

INkosi uShoshangane

Soshangane kaZikode (1780–1858), born Soshangane Nxumalo, was the founder and first king of the Gazankulu Empire, which at the height of its power stretched over modern-day southern Mozambique and parts of Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces in South Africa. Soshangane ruled over the Gaza state from 1825 until his death in 1858. Soshangane was also known by the name of Manukosi, and his troops where responsible for the massacre of the Janse van Rensburg trek.