Bhaca language

As the area of Mt.Frere lack industries and the People are not working so therefore  there's no thriving business in the villages. The following careers are taken: 1.Educator 2.Religion Preaching (Christianity) 3.Informal Agriculture  4.Police 5.Warder 6.Manual labour like 6.1 Road maintenance  6.2 Labourer 6.3 Truck Driver 7.Builder Kraal Builder 8.Informal Job  1.Shepherd 2.Water carrier with Buckets 3.Grass Cutter for Fodder 4.Baby sitter 9.Potential Jobs 1.Dressmaking 2.Cobbler 3.Painting 4.Electrical appliances fitter 5.Radio,TV Repairer

The Bhaca Attire bore historical symbol and ancestral  lineage which include clan. Women wore apron  with beadwork. Usually  it was worn by unmarried  women.  We have an attire called Umbhaco found at Qhingeni. Under YouTube Saved  Makoti. You  will see an outfit it is called  Sunday Outfit. We have different outfits which fits the certain situations. It also meant certain  classification.  A King would  wear  a tiger handcuff  around the neck. On the shoulders of elders wore the tiny handcuff.Their faces were not covered. These clothes   indicated  a certain era, history,achievements as well as the duration of that particular kingdom.

The Population  increased in KwaBhaca. Unfortunately  there were no Jobs.Some People resorted to Crime.The recent killing of Gija  a Public  Figure, a Social Activist and a Businessman  is disturbing. There  are speculations. The  first  one is the  possibility  of underground  Comrades  of which the police must undercover  who  assisnated Gija. The Second one  are the Criminal Gangs called  extertionists ripe in Eastern  Cape of which so far the  Police do a good job around Umtata. We hope one day the Police  will find the  killers of Gija. However there  are Questions  which  we ask ourselves 1.Why did such a Crime did not exit? 2.50 years ago  people were  very  poor. There  was no Crime. 3.What made people  change  to Crime? Is it Media or Retired People who came fron other tribes?

I once visited  Mt.Frere  in 1990.By then it did not have industries. I don't know why it was called a town. What I found 1.Enormous  movements of People in all pavements. 2.The traffic  was very high. 3.The street vendors were allover. 4.Small shops  scattered allover. 5.Service Professionals and center like hospitals. 1.Enormous  Movements of People in all  the pavements When I looked  at those  People, they carried  bags,grain food,meat. 2.The Traffic was very high I saw trucks carried building materials, Food trucks, private vehicles especially  the vans. 3.The Street Vendor were allover Since Mt.Frere  was in the centre, it could be accessible  by different People with various types of transport. 4.Small Shops scattered  allover Small shops gave food,clothes  to the People. 5.Service Professional  It has a hospitals  with a Portrait  of King Madzikane  and Medical  Doctors

I visited KwaBhaca in 1990 to bury my father  who asked that we must transport  him when  he passed on.I learnt  some good lessons especially what kept them  healthy. 1.They eat the Natural  Food which they cultivated like pumpkins,vegetables minimum  starch,fresh  meat with no spices with  granular  salt. 2. Every member  of the family had his/her own responsibilities. From a 6 year family upwards. A 6 year  old child should  take care  of small stocks like chicken and pigs.The main responsibilities  are giving  those  animals food and water  twice  per day. The child must report the progress  daily. Usually,the parents will  be very if he/she does not get the report. 3. A 7-10 boy  should be a shepherd of not more than 10 battle/sheep and they should not be far away  from home. At least they must be  at "an eye" distance. 4.A 7-10 girl  should sweep inside and o...

I asked myself why the Bhacas at Eastern  Cape  were isolated  by the people who spoke their  language.I think their History may tell us. I was told by one elder  that  they moved from  South and acquired the Land.They fought fiercly to acquire  the Land. The  defeated People passed from generation  to generation.When Transkei got the fake indepence the Development Fund  did not reach the lands of Bhaca. When you move towards their places,you don't  find the clear  marked streets. Schools were built with mud. There  was no clinic.The Police station was found at Kokstad and later at Mt.Frere  which was supposed  to service more than 10.000 people. There were no jobs.Instead they created farming. The Youth underwent  Police  Training  like my father.So the youth had to help to keep cattle  and sheep farming where the women had to collect twigs from the nearby bush. The  water had ...

There are few Readers who visit this blog who are attracted by the Bhaca Life. I wrote  about  the  Bhaca wonderful  culture. When I was  young I asked  my father who was a Bhaca. What I remember was 1.Honesty 2.Speak your  mind 3.Healthy  Food 4.Believe in the tribe. Those  were the Pillars of Life Unfortunately  the Bhaca is a tribe which is severely undermined.They are given a low job,unless one  can save himself/herself  through education. 1.Honesty Honesty is being taught  whether you are  alone  seen unseen. 2.Speak your  Mind As long as you believe what you say is right and you can support  it with facts. 3.Healthy Food Fresh roasted  meat was of preference. 4.Believe in the tribe. My father  was helped by a  by his  Tribal Brothers  who found Job.