Funny. Yes. I bet that's the word the Black and Colored population in RSA were saying.
First of all I am classed colored as well. My dad is white and my mother is colored and I do live in the Cape Flats in a place called Valhalla Park. 2nd of all it is easy to judge a thing from the outside. But people forget is that Africa have 100's of tribes and a lot of them do not share common values and grounds with each other.
Most foreigners believe that South Africa has one group of Blacks that speak one language and have one culture. Nothing could be further from the truth. South Africa‟s Black population is not homogenous.
There are several different tribes who all speak different languages and who have distinct and hugely different cultures. There are main tribes such as the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Venda, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi and the Shangaan/Tsonga people. But it does not stop there, because these main tribes consist of smaller tribes. For instance the Xhosas are made up of Mpondo, Fingo, Thembu, Bhaca, Nhlangwini and Xesibe tribes. The Sothos are made up of North Sotho (Bapedi) and South Sotho (Basotho) tribes. The Tswanas are only a part of the main tribe known as the West Sotho. Other tribes that make up the West Sotho are the Kwena, Kgatla, Tlhaping, Tlharo, Rolong and Ngwato. The Venda tribe is made up of mainly the Mphephu and the Lemba, but in total the Vavenda can be bordered off into 27 clearly distinguishable tribes. The Zulus are made up of about 200 smaller tribes The Swazis are made up from the Nkosi, Shongwe, Khumalo and Hhlatyawako tribes. The Northern Sothos are made up from the Pedi, Koni, Phalaborwa, Lobedu and Kutswe tribes.... And so I can go on...All in all South Africa has nine official Black languages, with 23 sub categories and innumerable dialects.
Yes, these different tribes of South Africa all have different languages, cultures and belief systems. The Vendas for instance have a special affinity to crocodiles. The Zulus consider themselves as a warrior tribe and they do not circumcise their boys when they are initiated into manhood, they have to kill a bull with their bare hands. The Xhosas on the other hand do circumcise their boys and therefore Xhosas consider Zulus as mere boys regardless of their age.
Also if you use google and search killings in Kwa Zulu Natal espicially voilence between ANC and IFP you will find hundreds of reports. That is basically the Xhosa and Zulu. Is is not because of their political affiliation but because of the two's believes. Darfur and Rwanda two tribes also who do not get along and what happened? Genocide?
This is a bit out of the findings from the Genocide in Darfur and Rwanda
Both episodes took place in the midst of civil war, in periods of political transition, in countries with histories of ethnic nationalism, and in areas where the conflicting ethnic populations lived in relative proximity
South Africa have Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Venda, Ndebele, Sotho, Swazi and the Shangaan/Tsonga. Not 2. Then the tribes especially the Zulu's had internal fighting. That is where Zimbabwe come from because of Mzilikaze fleeing there from Dingaan.
Another remarkable piece of information that very few people know about is that the Lemba people who form part of the Venda tribe are JEWISH. You must remember it was about a 100 years ago where most of these African tribes where uneducated, had no hospitals, schools nor anyone defending them from other tribes. That mean if one tribe conquer another they normally kill of everyone or sell them as slaves to the arabs and other populations. Now how do you instantly stop about 15 million people who belonged to over 100's of tribes fighting with each other from killing each other and stop fighting? If the International community know what is really going on in Africa then Genocide in Rwanda could have been avoided. Just a example of some of the laws still believed to by today.
“The law requires that if a woman gives birth to twins, one must be destroyed by having a round pebble pushed down its throat. But in the case of triplets, one must die and two must live” “My People”, Chapter 10, Pg. 218
You can have a look around twins in the black community is a very rare thing. One day if you have the time try to find a book called “My People-The writings of a Zulu witch-doctor” by Credo Mutwa.
Do you even know the country of Botswana with all its riches IE Gold and diamonds who's economy btw is doing much better than SA and a way lower crime rate was part of SA as well? It was given to the Tswana's along with Bophuthatswana. This was really Apartheid and its intention
The ten homelands were as follows:
Transkei –Xhosa
Ciskei – Xhosa
Venda – Venda
Bophuthatswana – Tswana
Gazankulu – Tsonga/Shangaan
KaNgwane – Swazi
KwaNdebele – Ndebele
KwaZulu – Zulu
Lebowa – Pedi (Northern Sotho)
QwaQwa – Sotho
The only job of any government is to protect our individual rights. The role of any government is to protect our right to life and our pursuit of happiness from those who wants to take it away from us. Each of the tribes where given 1 or two of the homelands to protect one another and from stopping violence between the tribes.
The Townships have you ever been in one or saw one? Like any city it has its million dollar homes with BMW's parked infront its middle class area and its slums which is the squatter camps (informal settlements). Yes Seweto is like any city around the world.
At the hight of Apartheid in 1978 Soweto had 115 Football fields, 3 Rugby fields, 4 athletic tracks, 11 Cricket fields, 2 Golf courses, 47 Tennis courts, 7 swimming pools built to Olympic standards, 5 Bowling alleys, 81 Netball fields, 39 children play parks, and countless civic halls, movie houses and clubhouses. In addition to this, Soweto had 300 churches, 365 schools, 2 Technical Colleges, 8 clinics, 63 child day care centres, 11 Post Offices, and its own fruit and vegetable market. There were 2300 registered companies that belonged to black businessmen, about 1000 private taxi companies. 3% of the 50,000 vehicle owners in 1978 were Mercedes Benz owners. Soweto alone had more cars, taxis, schools, churches and sport facilities than most independent countries in Africa. The Blacks of South Africa had more private vehicles than the entire white population of the USSR at the time.
The biggest hospital in the world, Baragwanath with 3200 beds and at its peak almost 8000 staff had 23 operation theatres fitted out with the most modern medical equipment that existed in the world. Blacks were treated here, operated on...at full state costs to the taxpayers for unlimited periods. The budget of this hospital was and is higher than the yearly budget of most small member states of the United Nations.
Yes there were foolish laws introduced but that was thanks to De Beers and the British recipients behind it because it all started with a mine strike back in 1929. De Beers was the only company to have profited from Apartheid. Employing millions of black workers as cheap labor and running a diamond cartel making billions. The more stricter the laws got the cheaper the labor. Only white payed taxes. So there were no tax deductions from their salaries.
Where we are living the apartheid government build double story houses with a back yard, 3 bedrooms, a huge front yard and a bathroom all with electricity and sewerage. I can show you pictures how they look as well if you want to. I live in one. Did SA really change or was the roles just reversed? Some aspect things changed and some roles are just reversed. We colored community still are in the middle. Meaning if I a black man or woman, a whiteman or woman apply for a job the blackman or woman would get it due to affirmative action and we are still in the middle just like apartheid. The poor are getting poorer, and the government are enriching themselves and people are getting murder around us at a rate of 3 or four a week. We are not allowed to paint a picture of the president naked and the ruling party's youth league encourage people to kill farmers with hate speech which they claim is a Apartheid song. Kill the xxx Kill the xxx is hate speech yet the international community miss that one.
Also you might want to look up the word "Necklace killings". That was used by the ANC members to kill other black people who did not want to support their cause. The Baragwanath hospital today have unqualified doctors, high infant mortality rate and you will have more chance of surviving at a rubbish dump than there. Just because the state do not fund it like it use to back in the Apartheid years. Suddenly with a extra 10 million people of tax paying money plus all the Homelands casino's and tourists attractions there is not enough funds to support things a older regime could have build. It has been 18 years and all we have seen is job losses, more killings, revenge and the government enriching themselves like you would not believe. Their next agenda I believe is land reform which will be the Zimbabwean style of Land reforms.
Coming back to Rugby the NZ touring side I believe it was in the 60's played against a colored team in a tour match. Not many people know that. Also the (Western province coloured rugby union was founded in 1886 and the South African Coloured Rugby Board (SACRB) was founded in 1896) long before Apartheid.
In 1939 the SACRB chose a team to go on an internal tour. The team played 9 matches and lost just two. This touring team was called the Springboks. Its colours were green and gold and its blazer badge carried a leaping springbok with the words '1st National Team 1939'. The second world war dashed the SACRB's hopes of sending the team abroad.
Schools rugby with annual tournaments was an important feature of the game amongst the black players. The first of the annual inter-schools tournaments was played in 1943 with Healdtown beating the Welsh in the final. The last tournament was won by Langa High school in 1964.
South Africa's rugby hierarchy were beginning to welcome non-white players and coloured teams began to face white sides at the end of the 1970s, with Tobias and Avril Williams progressing through the ranks to become the first non-whites to play for South Africa. Tobias recalls Doctor Danie Craven, the then head of South African rugby, praising the non-white sides, telling them, "you guys are on the right track".
The SARFF also sent a team to tour the UK and Holland in 1971. Then several African clubs, previously affiliated to the SAARB crossed over to the SARU which was the so called white South African rugby union. How many knew that?
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