Your Excelencies, what did you understand?

 Just before he left office, then US President Barack Obama addressed African heads of states assembled in Adis Ababa. I wonder who had invited him. Anyway, Obama said things, some of which if taken up and practiced by his listeners would pull Africa out of the poverty that she is currently in and has been in for thousands of years.

Two things stand out, in my opinion. Obama said that if he were to run again for elections he was confident that he could win, but that he could not run again because that is what the constitution of the United States mandated - two terms and no more! The other thing that Obama said, which is in a way related to the first is that Africa needs strong institutions, and not strong men.

Your Excelencies, what did you think as you sat listening to those words of one of your own?

  

"It is the BDP that is dying - BNF"

 Unless you are a "Botswana-n" this post will be of no interest to you. 

I have just read the above titled article by BNF publicity official Justin Hunyepa. It's really sad. You see, I enjoy watching wildlife documentaries on TV, particularly the way that animals forage or hunt for food.

When lionesses decide to make a kill, first they pretend to be abandoning their vintage points. They actually behave as though they are dispersing, when in actual fact they are encircling their prey. From a safe distance of "dispersal" they crawl back into formation around their prey, all the while keeping hidden in the most camouflaging vegetation. When the time is right, they pounce! The prey finds itself running from one lion to another equally ferocious one lying in ambush with its strength fully preserved.

My advice to Hunyepa and BNF: You are almost fully surrounded. It started in Palapye in 1998 when, because you did not have a Party Intelligence Department, you could not appreciate the crisis of conscience that your Director of Elections was grappling with. Now the encirclement is almost complete. In 2024 it will be a complete whitewash, probably the first genuine one since 1966. 

What is gold called in Kalanga language?

The town of Francistown in Northern Botswana is an ancient gold mining town. It is thanks to the gold mining that Kalanga language is still spoken in the surrounding areas - northern Botswana, south western Zimbabwe. Nyangabwe, as Franscistown was called during the Anunnaki-led mining operations, is connected to Mapungubwe hill by seasonal dry river channels.

So what is gold called in Kalanga? I have long puzzled over what is seemingly the absence of a word for gold in Kalanga. It was not until I adopted a methodical  inquiry that things became clear. The leading Anunnaki workgroup in mining operations were the Bakhurutshe. Indeed some accounts give their name as deriving from "mining supervision". The most technically advanced group of Bakhurutshe are the Russians. So what do the Russians call gold? Well, they call it "zolota"; as interesting a Kalanga word as they come.

The Kalanga verb "Ku lota" means "to burn and turn into ash". So the word "Zolota" means "that which burns and turns into ash/powder". To me this is the first confirmation that the stories I have been reading about monatomic gold (ormus) during the Anunnaki presence on Earth are true. So the Kalanga word for gold is the same as the Russian word for it - "zolota". It has to be, because the word is a Kalanga word anyway!     

Universality of Kalanga language

There are a number of words that people, especially Kalanga speakers, may not have  correctly identified as having Kalanga roots. First up is the people of Mali. I believe these people are actually "Ma-Hali". the word "Hali" means earthen pots. The people of Mali must therefore have been  the workgroup with skills to work earth, i.e. responsible for making earthen pots and other earthen equipment. No wonder Timbuktu has those magnificent earthern towers.

I still recall when the capital of China was called Peking. Bearing in mind that the Chinese, [Ba-Tsha-ina] means "those who dig for water", it is not surprising that their capital was changed to "Be-ijing". The word "ijing" is the ancient form of the Chinese word for a water well. As you probably can see, it is the same word in "Bushman" language (Chikhwa). In Chikhwa a water well is "jenaa". So Beijing simply means "the people of the water well". It is the "Be.." part that is attributable to Kalanga language, not the whole word "Beijing". Nonetheless those who changed the name from Peking to Beijing probably still speak ancient Kalanga today!

I dispute the writing of the ancient Ethiopian city as Aksum. I accept the name Axum as correct. The correct pronunciation of Axum should be "Ahume", meaning "let him/her be rich" in Sumerian/Coptic/Sotho/Tswana language. This is the same pronunciation of the "x" as in the name of the South African liberation icon Tokyo Sexwale. 

Strange that we "boot up", just like a computer!

It has been said that the reference to a computer "booting up" likens a computer to a traveller fastening the straps of his/her boots, and starting their journey.

The Anunnaki referred to something that they called "ka", which in present day parlance means "soul". Now the source of the word "ka/kaa" has been shown to be the art of tying together the legs of a cow, in preparation for milking. In fact the letter "k", whose original Kalanga name is "ka" closely resembles the tied-up legs of a cow [look at it]!

What this means is that use of the word "boot up" in the case of the computer, was inherited from our engagement of the soul, or our "tying up cow legs" as the Anunnaki would have called it. Further proof, isn't it, that life is but a sophisticated DNA-based computer system. Please don't worry if you don't quite understand what I am trying to say, neither do I!

Kalangas are not a tribe; it is Tswanas who are a composite tribe.

In the distant past I wrote that the late Old Man Mogomela, a Mokhurutshi whose tribe is recognised by all other Tswana tribes as the most senior tribe, once told me "Mokalaka gase morafe; Mokalaka go tewa lefatshe", meaning "Kalangas are not a tribe; by Kalangas we mean the land/country/world". It saddens me that there are some Kalanga writers who, for political expediency continue to label Kalanga speakers in Botswana as a tribe. Just before the October 2019 elections we were treated to propaganda by one such writer who extolled the virtues of one "Mavange" and claimed that  said Mavange had done for the Kalanga people much more than what previous Kalanga politicians had done before.

The claim by this Kalanga boot-licker is quite astounding. How could a guy who had not cut front teeth yet, that is if he had been born at all, when John Mosojane and others took up the struggle to save Kalanga language from forced extinction, be said to have done so much for the Kalanga people? The level to which some people can grovel for "food" is quite shocking. But that is a topic for another day. For now, and in passing, the subject of boot-licking brings to mind then vice president Mokgweetsi Masisi's comment about his vrtues as "lelope". Some people have since claimed that Mr. Masisi was in fact laying claim to Royal pedigree, while others insisted that Mr. Masisi was "coming clean" about his status as a boot-licker. I am inclined to agree with the former, because I think that Mr. Masisi was speaking Kalanga, although possibly unaware of it.

You see, blood is "lopa" in Kalanga. The closest advisors to the chief are naturally,  his blood relatives. Therefore the Tswana word "lelope" was derived from the Kalanga "lopa". This would suggest that "lelope" does not mean a boot-licker; quite the opposite! Furthermore the Kalanga word for blood anchors the river "Molopo" which forms our "prostatic gland" southern boundary, firmly in the Kalanga language.

This post is further intended to show how the name "Sebina" arguably proves that the Tswanas (Barwa) are an off-shoot of Kalangas and not vice-versa. My previous post showed that both the Kalanga and the Tswana versions of the name "Sebina" mean the same thing - "Sinning name". In Kalanga the individual referenced by the name was an "nkaya" by trade, thereby sound-clashing with the name of the Anunnaki god "Nka", also known as Enki. Therein lay the "sinning". No human could bear a name/reference similar to the name of a god! But in Tswana language no such "sinning" occurs, because the same individual was referenced as "Mokaa" and not "nkaya". There is no record of the god Enki being called "Mokaa" by any human group. Therefore the "sinning" reflected in the Tswana version of the name "Sebi'ina" never existed outside the Kalanga language. In other words the Sumerian/..Tswana version of the name is just a literal translation of the Kalanga name "Tjibizina". Given that it was the god Enki who genetically fashioned humanity, we can safely conclude that Kalanga language predates Sumerian/..Tswana languages AMONG HUMANS.

Indeed the name in the Sumerian records - Enki, is a "tswanalization" of Kalanga. You see, in ancient Kalanga,  where the active verb (or noun) ended with an "a", such as in the noun "ka", for soul/spirit, the actor also ended with an "a", such as "nka" meaning "giver of the soul/spirit". The Sumerian/..Tswana language changed that, by making the actor ennd with with an "i", such as "nki". The word "Enki" is an attempt to write "I-nki". Today Kalanga has sadly been swung in the direction of Sumerian/..Tswana. Ku mba is to sing; m-mbi is a singer. Ku da is to like/love; n-di is a liker/lover. Ku yenda is to go/travel; n-yendi is a traveller. Ku vima is to hunt; m-vimi is a hunter.

Allow me to muse over a question posed by a writer I have great respect for, Lediretse Molake, when he wondered if there were tribes prior to the emergence of modern tribes. I do not believe there were tribes before Homo sapiens appeared on the scene about a quarter of a million years ago. If we start from the widely accepted view that Homo sapiens was fashioned by the Anunnaki as a worker being, we immediately appreciate why man would have been assigned to work-groups. Kalanga language reinforces that view; the groups we call tribes today bear Kalanga work-group names that clearly identify what the responsibility of each such group was. While Homo Naledi, the being who existed around Mapungubwe area prior to the genetic modification, might have been more advanced than the present day chimpanzee, it is highly unlikely that he would have assigned himself to work-groups. If he had, the Anunnaki would probably have just used him, rather than go through the laborious task of fashioning us, Homo sapiens.

Today some tribes acknowledge that they are off-shoots of other tribes; the Bakaa maintain that they are an offshoot of Barolong. In fact it is highly unlikely that all tribes were created at the same time. The first seven births by Anunnaki women of human babies certainly could not have covered all tribes. My own thinking is that the Anunnaki would have wanted to closely monitor the first group of humans both for health reasons as well as for general adaptation to a disciplined existence. For those reasons the first tribe would have been the body coolers/fanners, i.e. Bakhwa, who are generally known as Bushmen today. Only after the Anunnaki were satisfied            that project Homo sapiens was successful would they have then assigned the offspring of these Bakhwa to the real targetted occupation - digging (ku tsha). It is rather revealing that among the Bakhwa today, the word "tshaa" is not associated with gold but with water. We know which workgroup dug for water, it was the Chinese. It is therefore possible, indeed probable that the first progeny of Bakhwa were deployed to dig, not for gold but for water.

The bottom line of course is that these Bakhwa and their progeny spoke Kalanga language at the time. Kalanga language is the only language in Botswana which truly bears characteristics of a national language. To call Kalangas a "minor" tribe of a supposedly Tswana nation is to fly in the face of common sense.

Correcting the name "Sebina"

I was listening to the radio sports bulletin the other day when the announcer tried, not very successfully to read the name Tjizwina, presented as the name of the village officially known as Sebina village. We Kalangas have never liked the Tswana name Sebina. The village is called Tjizwina by the vast majority of its inhabitants, who are Kalanga-speaking. But it has to be remembered that when an attempt was made to change the official name of the village from Sebina to Tjizwina, the attempt failed; the villagers stuck to the Tswana name Sebina. So what exactly is the correct name of that village?

The correct name of that village is the Kalanga phrase "Tjibi zina", which means the same as the Tswana "Sebi leina" , or (when shortened) "Sebi'ina". In English both mean "Sinning name". But wherein lies the sin? To figure that out you have to go back to the origin of man. The first holder of the title "Tjibi zina" belonged to the human work-group responsible for tying together the feet of cows during milking. In Kalanga the tribe is known as the Bakaya; a single member as Nkaya. The name reference "Nkaya" would have sounded very much like the name of the Anunnaki god "Enki". In Kalanga the god's name was rendered "I-Nki" or simply "Nka", meaning "the giver of life". And so the tribal work-group title of an Nkaya coincided with the name of the god Enki, and it was therefore considered a sin to use the title Nkaya/Nkaa  to refer to the tribesman. But what could people do? It was not as if it was a personal name, in which case it would have been swiftly changed. The "name" was actually a job title, and nothing could be done about it; sickening though it was to vocalise it in reference to a mere mortal. So a solution was worked out - simply refer to the human as "Sinning name", which in the Kalanga became "Tjibi zina".

The name "Tjibi zina" was probably the first casualty of the takeover by Reptilians, of humanity's affairs. Tjibi zina's work-group the Bakaya, was one of four work-groups collectively called the "Bathuwa" in Kalanga. The Reptilian Igigi who put the four workgroups together, to start the milk economy, referred to the four groups as "Barua" in their language, Sumerian/Arab/Coptic/Sotho/Tswana. The Kalangas gradually shifted from calling them "Bathuwa"  to calling them "Barwa", a corruption of the word "Barua". The four Barwa work-groups are the Bakaa, Bakwena, Bangwato, and Bangwaketse. The Reptilian Igigi viewed humanity as no more than milk workers; oh, and wives of course! But crucialy, they spoke to humanity in their own reptilian language - Sumerian/Arab/Coptic/Sotho/Tswana. Consequently humanity moved to adopt the language of their new gods, presumably as some sort of status symbol. This is the language which has corrupted the Kalanga base in almost every language on earth, from Shona to Mandarin, from Korean to English, from Japanese to Russian, from Khwe to Hawaian and Swahili.

And so the correct name of the village officially known as "Sebina" today is the Kalanga "Tjibizina" or the Tswana "Sebina" depending on your language preference. It is possible though that the Kalanga "Tjibizina" might initially have been abbreviated to a more palatable "Tji'zina", which name eventually "sound-creeped" to the current "Tjizwina".

Credit is duly given to Albert Malikongwa's poem Mitetembelo ye Baka Madandume, where I first learnt of the name "Tjibizina".