Bhaca language

As I mentioned  before in the boy family meeting the crucial  questions  and the suggestions  are enforced even it will mean a  breakway wouldn't  matter. What are the crucial questions? 1.The Girl Family  history How will  be the possible  relations with the Boy Family? Will this additional  family be toxic or not? Does this  Girl Family  have or had  a bad history  in the community or with other  families or with the present boy family. 2.How is the Girl family popular  at present? -Is it a family of Criminals? -Is it a warmonger  family? -Is it a family of witches? _Are they undermining other  families like Pride? -How possible will they accept the boy family and their new son of Law? 3.How is the Boy Family popular? -Is it a "strong" family, meaning  this family  can it withstand all the temptations with the Girl Family? -Is the any harmony  between  the  Boy and Girl F...

 Young Adults Both Men and Women at this stage  are matured enough to start a family.There are  checks  and balances. 1.A Matured young man, must always visit  the Old Men Meetings which take  place weekly,monthly and yearly.He is expected to contribute positively  in the tribal problems. 2.Moreover,he must show the "extreme" respect to the meetings. 3.He must know his "place" very well.The decisions of the elderly are final.The deviation  is punishable or family expulsion  4.He must not have "bad" record  of not doing his duties at home 5.The Elderly Council  may "ban" him not to attend the council meetings  or to keep quiet  during meetings. 6.He might be instructed to call members of the Council for the meeting with  bare foot and arrange food which will be a forced  donation from his kraal or from his family kraal.The duration  of that punishment will  be decided by the Council. 7.He must respect th...

The Bhacas believe in the family  strength. The family  strength  can be a nightmare  or  a blessing. Family  Strength  There are  many types of extended  families.A Husband may have  a number of wives.There are family  meetings which take place weekly in a small  family  or monthly meetings  and yearly meetings. Usually,the traditional  food is cooked and  traditional drinks. What is discussed in these meetings? 1.Family responsibilities are shed: 5 to 6 years Boys They must  feed the chicken,ducks with corns and  give water in the morning  and afternoon 7 to 18 Boys They are the shepherds  for sheep and look  after cattle and goats. 19 to 25 Boys After  schooling they must look  after cattle  5 to 6 year Girls Cleaning the house,sweeping the yard and collecting the dung. 7 to 18 Girls Collecting  woods from the nearby bush,collecting water and cooking.

When I checked the state of this blog,  some interesting  facts emerged.The blog was visited by the minority  populations around  the world. In the past posts  I wrote about  this tribe,how did they survived under extremely  hard conditions  of  which all of us could learn.They did have the word Poverty in their vocabulary. They survived  in Eastern Cape  bordered by KZN Province.They had one big river which is diminishing and is called: Mzimvubu River and Mzimvubu means Mzi= House  Mvubu =hippopotamus. Up to now,there  is a debate whether to draw water  to the villages nearby or not. Otherwise, using Water can lorries and vans.Water is freely available  or those  want to more water had to pay  more.90% of this Community  are not working,no skill education  but they are practising farming taught by their  forefathers. However there are skills which  are taught from generation  t...