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...

The type of economy  today needs hardworkers, knowledgeable,self motivated,moving towards perfection. Do we still  have such  People? Yes, we still  have them  and they become fewer and fewer.Our century  has produced lesser intellectuals. Why? They are not easily available. It is because  those who could not make it,opted  for short cuts and most of them suppress the intellectuals  and hardworkers  and they recruit  those who  are like them because  they are not a threat. As the time went on,the circle grew which hindered the outside intervention.Thats why  other People remain  poor while others become  richer  and richer. I like the world of technology. Its a question  of you make it or not.The technology  is not a friend  of anyone but to the co-ordinated microchips and put them  in an orderly arrangement  so  that you can  get the desired results.So,the technology...

This small tribe is found in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.There are lessons which you and me can learn: 1.Strong family Foundation                                Great Economic  Achievers have strong        family  Foundation.This what  the Bhacas have achieved.By the strong  family  Foundation,I mean the Head of the Family gives a clear guidance in the family  with  the aim of uniting  the family.         2.Respect anyone.                                                This tribe has the unwritten  Law that anyone who is young or old should  respect any human being.It is  believed  that it shall  bring a prosperity  now and future. 3.Respect the Land.      ...

I'm glad that there are People around the world do visit my past Bhaca blogs.It encourages me to go deep and deep about their survival. It is very interesting that they were given odd jobs in urban areas like sweeping the streets,carrying out human bucket faeces which I saw it in Gauteng in 1965. Their faces were scratched with Penknife as their  symbol of their tradition.Every weekend the different families and friends come together dance,eat and drink the traditional beer. The boys used to make clay cows and play with sticks where the other stick will block the opponent's one while the other stick will hit the head of the opponent and hit the ribs until the Opponent raise the sticks above his head or say it open "maloojoo" meaning stop you have defeated me.If he continues to fight after being told "maloojoo' then the rest of the boys will attack the one who does not want to stop. Last time when I visited Mt.Frere known now KwaBhaca there were few houses wer...