The first soldier

 "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.

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.