"He is five foot four and he is six feet two; he fights with missiles and with spears; he is the one who must decide who is to live and who is to die..."
I don't know who sings the quoted song (Universal soldier?) but I suspect it could be the American singer Donovan. The original "soldier's" responsibility was neither to rule nor to overthrow legally constituted governments. Rather, it was to GUARD gold freight carried by human mules along the Tate River, from Nyangabwe (Francistown) to Mapungubwe Hill. The reader will recall that Mapungubwe is situated at the confluence of the perennial Limpopo River and the seasonal Shashe River. The Shashe River in turn has a tributary, known as the Tate (father) River. At the confluence of the Tate River and one of own tributaries - the Ntshi River, lies Francistown city and its gold mines. And so during the Anunnaki days, humans mined and carried the gold (zolota in Kalanga) along the dry river bed of the Tate, then along that of the Shashe and onto Mapungubwe Hill.
Kalanga speakers refer to the Tate River as the Dati River. Nonetheless I am convinced that the river's correct name is Tate, because the so-called mixed race people of Francistown call it that - Tate River. You see the mixed race people of Francistown have been "mixed" since human creation. They are children of the white Anunnaki miners and humans, at the time when all humans were black. How do I know this? In Kalanga one such person is known as "Gutwane", plural "Bakutwane", derogatively "Makutwane". The word Gutwane is a corruption of the Kalanga phrase/question "Gu-ti-wa-ani?" literally meaning "Miner! whose (children) are we?" It is from the Kalanga language that Sumerian (Sotho/Tswana languages) subsequently called them "Lekutwane", plural "Makutwane". And so what their descendants call the Tate River will be uncorrupted - they have lived around the mines since humanity was created. Of course Africa quickly turned them Black, but as a community, they have remained a separate black tribe for thousands of years. When white European colonisers returned to Africa, they too intermarried/interbred with the then Black Bakutwane because it was the latter who knew, and showed the former where the gold mines were. The former then "discovered" the gold and "founded" Francistown city! The natives (Bakutwane) however stuck with the name of their river -Tate, which name the Europeans changed to Tati.
The Kalanga name "Dati" however, is an informal (almost corrupted) version of the name. Literally, Dati means a bowed branch trap, the kind that "jungle men" such as Tarzan set up to catch unwanted intruders and hoist them up sky high! And so human gold (zolota) mules along the Tate River were protected ala "Dati" by unseen guards known as "zolo-dati", from whence the name soldier/soldat comes. In other words, the original soldier's duty was likely, to guard against economic plunder by Homo erectus, and not to kill other humans; certainly not to overthrow the government, which at the time was that of our creators.
