LOVE THIS CHILD by:Thobs the Zulu Queen

Love this child

For the light of your existence

Is reflected in the smile

The walk the mannerism

Love this child for life continues through you through this child

Protect this child without selfishness or revenge

Love this child even if the world has shown you heart ache and you felt it

Love this child even if your relationship is governed by law enforcers

Love this child beyond all material gain

For love from you in it's self is a base of identity

It is respect

Love this child care for this child

Wipe the tears of the fragile face

Carry this child when the legs get tired

For your one stride is 5 to this child

Love this child

To grow rooted and know the realities of this life

Love this child enough to wipe the bitter taste of your tongue

That this life's experience have left on your tongue

Love this child enough to break walls that surround your heart

Love this child

Love love love enough love more than enough

BY : Thobs the Zulu Queen

SEEKING HELP WITH MY ISLAND PROJECT AND MOVING TO THE NEXT ISLAND

DAWTAS OF THE SUN uBuntu creative expressions

                                                             

Dear Friends and Allies, 

I'm writing in the hope you can help me accomplish my instrument making project around the Caribbean.

For those don’t know me my name is Thobekile “Thobs the Zulu Queen” Mbanda. A young South African woman residing currently in Dominica, I am a spoken word artist, story teller, educator, activist against human trafficking and community activist, my work portrays my deep rooted passion for the well-being of people, promoting self-love, self-respect, identity and self-sustainment. I am the founder of Red Gold and Green Educare Centre in Cape Town South Africa.

As a creative I think it is important for us to create spaces for the youth to express themselves, be it singing dancing, acting, playing an instrument we have to support these avenues, with social pressures how do they express what they feel? We need to harness their energy in a positively productive and creative way. Not just the youth but all living beings should be able to have creative expressions.

ubuntu |oǒ'boǒntoō|

Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. It also means 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.

uBuntu creative expressions is using arts as a medium of expression we have things we want to express, we seek and we blessed with ways of expressing, in the same breath many are not aware of the positive ways that could help them express themselves.

Ubuntu creative focus on the below methods to work with the youth that come from disadvantage homes that just need a someone to believe in them that need someone with a different perspective on the realities of this life, someone to show them love how to give and receive it, for the greater good of us all.

Methods used

·  Drama/story telling/acting

·  Dancing

·  Painting

·  Singing

·  creating

We do this so to empower the youth with a skill that requires creativity, to empower them with knowledge of the world outside what they know.To educate them about self-care, self-respect and self-love through creativity. To encourage a sense of responsibility to one’s self, society and the environment. Sometimes, it may be difficult to reach teens with health and safety information because they feel invincible or untouchable regarding serious diseases so through this project they can use their own voices to tell what they see.

Current Project

We are making berimbau’s, rain sticks and calabash shakers. I have found good material at the Caribe Territory which comes at a cost.

To make the instruments will take us 3 weeks. When they are done with the instruments, they are going to write a short story about a social issue that they feel is relevant to them based on what they write I will help them make a play, which they will present to the school and their community as way of fundraising for their school.

The younger children I do environmental awareness; mostly we focus on the litter on the beach front which we pick up and sort out and take what we can use for instruments and the rest we send to recycle.

For the past year and a half as ways of keeping active I have been teaching children to make music instruments using recyclable goods and teach them some south African songs using their instruments, before my group was younger so I use child friendly material and now that I am in Dominica my work is attracting young teenagers, so I am using more natural material, bamboo, calabash and coconut etc.

Currently I am doing an 8 week program we meet twice a week to create.

I tutor children at a children’s centre 3 times a week and help them with their community projects i.e. feeding the elderly, cleaning the street, doing plays, take them for hikes, do sports days and help them organise fundraiser events for their centre etc. The centre is based in New Town where the rate of unemployment is high, so mostly my work is volunteering.

I am not sure if you’re aware how I started to travel to get the rest of the story and would like to help me carry on with the projects. I except donations via Western Union for any amount but if you'd like to know how much I need for my project and travels,just reply with subject line : How much

My Experience

I am qualified TEFL English teacher, (teaching English as a foreign language)

I am a upcoming internationally celebrated South African singer, poet and educator.

I am a play writer Princess Magogo the rise of a star successfully showcased in South Africa and Barbados for 2 nights, writer of Dawata’s of the Sun.

I am also the founder of Red Gold and Green Educare Centre.

                                                                                                                            

Artist page :

https://www.facebook.com/TheZuluQueen

Educare Centre :

https://sites.google.com/site/rggeducare/

My work :

http://badilishapoetry.com/artists-profile/166/

 Thanking you in this regard and look forward hearing from you just drop me an email if you want to help support my initiative and to move to the next place.

Somebody crown me with love, somebody crown me with care,so to survive being a alive.

Sister of Justice

LILIAN NGOYI 1911-1980

Born in 1911 25 September in Pretoria of Bapedi parents, Mrs. Ngoyi grew up in conditions of abject poverty. Her father, now dead, changed employment and the Matabane family moved to a mine in the Eastern Transvaal. Her mother did washing. Lillian was noted to be the biggest crier in the neighborhood. She would cry until she fainted. At that time young as she was she was into politics encouraged by her father who hated the white rule that forced him to work in mines and she admired the bravery of Mr Sefako Makgatho at that time president of the ANC (1917).
She was sent to Kilnerton Training Institution while she was still in Standard Two. She reached the first year of the teachers' course but her father couldn't afford the fees any longer, and so she had to quit school. Lillian then went to City Deep mine hospital to train as a nurse. She later got married, but after a few years her husband, Mr Ngoyi, died.

Except for a short interlude of ballroom dancing in the competition ranks, her life slid into a quiet slow tempo. But a hectic political career began in 1952, when the ANC launched its Defiance Campaign. Mrs. Ngoyi went join a batch that went to 'defy' apartheid regulations at the General Post Office. She told inquiring officials and the police that she was writing a telegram to some cabinet ministers. The defiers were acquitted and Mrs. Ngoyi then began to organize Orlando women for Congress.
As Vice-President of the South African Federation of Women, Mrs Ngoyi was the chosen delegate to the Lausanne conference of women in Switzerland last year. Together with another African woman, she visited several European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Mrs Ngoyi is the first African woman to be on the Transvaal Provincial Executive of the ANC and on the National Executive.
In 1954 she became Treasurer of the South African Non-European Council of Trade Unions. She is a member of the Women's Garment Workers' Union for the Reef, and
'My womb is shaken when they speak of Bantu Education!' is also currently Acting President of the SA Federation of Women.

Once in politics, Mrs Ngoyi knew that the nameless compulsion that had been working in her since childhood had become a reality. Those days she loved to read about pioneers who led their people to freedom. Not least, she was thrilled by the activities of Hebrew leaders in the Bible. Another thing that made a lasting impact on her was the migrant labour system as she saw men come and go between the reserves and the mines.

Her father was bitterly anti-white. Strong passion expresses itself through her too, Mrs Ngoyi's weakness lies in being highly emotional. Her strength lies in the fact that she admits it and is always prepared to be disciplined and to submit to cold logic. She also admits her weak educational background. She is therefore not much of a political thinker, but she gets down to a job in a manner that shames many a political theorist. For this woman has bundles and bundles of energy. Granite reinforced with wire. She will often begin her family washing at ten in the night - home cleanliness and sewing are a religious passion with her.
Mrs. Ngoyi is a brilliant orator. She can toss an audience on her little finger, get men grunting with shame and a feeling of smallness, and infuse everyone with renewed courage. Her speech always teems with vivid figures of speech. Mrs. Ngoyi will say: 'We don't want men who wear skirts under their trousers. If they don't want to act, let us women exchange garments with them.' Or she will say: 'We women are like hens that lay eggs for somebody to take away. That's the effect of Bantu Education.'
At an anti-pass meeting one masculine firebrand advocated violence as a political solution. Mrs. Ngoyi replied: 'Shed your own blood first and let's see what stuff it's made of.' She denounced violence as stupid and impractical. The firebrand spluttered, flickered and sat down to smoulder, feeling embarrassed.

Cuts and granite are required to lead and inspire the thousands of women who are everywhere resisting the extension of the pass system to women.

                

A life in the shadows a victim in the making

                                      Mother Leah gen 29; 15-35

                               

Leah 1 of the 2 dawtas of Laban uncle to father Jacob, she was the first wife of Jacob whom he never loved because he wanted to marry Rachel which he eventually did.

Leah had a low self esteem maybe she couldn’t look any one in the eye to Jacob she was inferior in some way in personality an attractiveness, she lived in the shadow of her stunningly beautiful sister, Rachel was extremely beautiful and Jacob was in love with her and wanted to marry her and worked 7 years for her. Leah second best maybe when Rachel was born she began to with draw now all of a sudden her father takes her to be Jacobs bride, can you imagine the conflicting emotions she felt.

Jacob was tricked, in ancient Israel as custom had it, you never saw your wife till the next morning, he went to confront Laban after he slept with her, Laban made him work 7 more years for Rachel, Leah was deceived caught in the game she did not manufacture, she was a victim and all she ever wanted was to be loved, admired and respected for who she is. We all want to be loved by family friends spouse etc. when she woke up she just wanted to be loved by her husband and all she got was an empty bed.

She was hurt felt used unwanted and undesirable, she decided to win Jacobs love and affection, what extremes have you gone to win someone’s favor parents boss friends etc.

So she took the first step to get his attention and many woman have tried to get a man’s attention SEE ME, every person desires attention and do what they think will make them more excepted, you cannot be affectionate with someone who does not see you, Leah then pursued the only means available to her….she had a baby, Jacob may not have loved her but he was married to her it was her right in that society for him to give her a chance to bear children, her first born Rueben means look at me she thought by giving him a son he will see her, might have had a way of looking at her but not seeing  her didn’t  notice if she gained weight or lost it .

Something happens to a woman’s spirit when she is totally ignored by a man she desires a loving relationship with her psyche is messed up her heart crushed her self esteem shattered rejection can create deep emotional wound, after awhile she thinks something is wrong with her or she starts doubting herself. Hear me Leah tried the second time Simeon was born. Crying out to have her opinions her feelings her desires heard, know me she persisted she was determined to get Jacob attention and affection had her third son Levi. To be joined to or connected join with me connect with me Jacob. Having children does not guarantee that your spouse will see you or be intimate with you Leah finally faced up to that fact. she shifted gears I can’t get his attention he won’t listen to me he won’t be one with me its time change direction PRAISE JAH and Judah was born meaning let Jahovah be praised.

A life of praise, people of the tribe of Judah became leaders of praise. Until you become like the tribe of Judah you will always need people to fulfill you to see you to hear you people to tell you who you are.

Mother Leah birthed Judah and said now I will praise Jah. Stop trying to so hard to impress others to be accepted, love yourself for you are worthy you are fearfully (respectfully) and wonderfully made, until we know and understand Jah love we cannot love another person.

ALL THINGS IN DIVINE TIME!!

love and light

I Rise...

I rise in the morning

To take a leap of faith

To let love shine through

To embrace the unknown

To believe in self cos out here self is all I have

With well wishes from friends family and foes

I rise

To lend a helping hand

To discover and rediscover my passions

To celebrate today to develop my skills to ensure survival

To dream the impossible in the world of possibilities

To expand myself

And experience other cultures

For a better tomorrow

I rise.

As Thobekile Thobs Thoby the Zulu Queen

How can I help you?

WARRIOR QUEEN

                                     QUEEN NZINGA1582-1663

The Portuguese were among the first Europeans to make contact with Africans, in the 15^th century. The Portuguese were welcomed, but by late 1th century they had established a foothold in the Congo, were trading in slaves and expanding their activities southwards into the territory of the Ndongo whose king was known as Ngola, the Portuguese mistakenly took to be the name of the country(Angola).

On the death of her father in 1617,his eldest son Mbandi seized power killing all pretenders  of the throne including  Nzinga’s son….Mbandi was not only a murderer but a coward who fled before the advancing Portuguese, abandoning  the cherished land of the Ndonga as he retreated  into the interior. IN 1582 Princess Nzinga was born to king Ngola of Ndonga who was engaged in a bitter struggle with Portuguese, this struggle was to for almost 100years.Nzinga’s childhood had been spent in the shadow of continued war with the European invaders of peace and harmony. She had a fierce and courageous spirit, just like her father when the time came to talk terms with the enemy; since Mbandi had disappeared she had to make a long journey with her aids to the coastal fortress which the Portuguese had built at Luanda.

Her meeting with the Portuguese Governor De Souza has passed to our history as a legend she had characteristics of an astute leader. the Governor was sitted in the only chair a large room, she signaled for one of her handmaids who arched her back for her to sit for she was very determined to meet the enemy on equal terms, when asked to return Portuguese prisoners of war Mother Nzinga agreed on terms that they return all the African slaves taken away to slavery in a fair trade off. As this was not possible she demanded that her people‘s lands should be restored in exchange for Portuguese prisoners of war. The peace treaty was signed, but De Souza was greedy because of the growing demand from Lisbon and Brazil for more slaves and broke the treaty, when the usurper Mbandi died Nzinga assumed leadership of her people. Continued attacks by the Portuguese forced her to withdraw from the plains  into the high lands  of Matamba,where she began  to resettle her people in 1630.

A supreme tactician Mother Nzinga waged a fierce guerilla war against the Portuguese who installed a puppet chief in Ndonga in her place. Over the next 10yrs she continued to harry the enemy forces with spasmodic raids whilst creating new allegiances with the Jaga people.1641-1644 she re established her control in the plains of Ndonga an un easy peace was restored but Mother Nzinga knew that this was only a lull in the in the protracted war against the Portuguese they returned with reinforcement from Brazil in 1648 they retook Luanda and Queen Nzinga returned to her strong hold in the mountains. The Matamba highlands be the home of the ‘ANGOLANS’. In the 1650’s Queen Nzinga  started to withdraw from the battlefront(age 68),over the long years of war she had trained a new generation  in the tactics of survival and jungle war fare against the white invaders of her land.

Whilst surrounding Kimgdoms had submitted to foreign white rule but the people of Ndonga (Angola) had defended freedom of their precious land with their Queen Nzinga leading them.

In 1663 at the age of 81 Queen Nzinga died. Three hundred years later, with Africa colonized and partitioned by European evil powers Angolans were locked in another with their old enemy Portugal, the Angolan victory came about the army using the same war strategies Queen Nzinga had used centuries before.

Queen Nzinga had a crucial role in her people’s resistance to the European intruders.