Revolutionary greetings, What's in a name? The name South Africa is as anachronistic as apartheid, it belongs in the rubbish bin of vanquished settler colonial mentality. Our leaders are yet to obviate the obsession of changing street corner names to selected fellow comrades and shunning the broader task of looking into the question of a name change for our country - a glaring dereliction of duty on their part. The eponymous recycling of names to highways, municipalities and even squatter camps, amongst other things, has reached a stage of ridicule.
What could be more appropriate than changing the name from South Africa to a name that unshackles the country from colonialism and all its trimmings. A name that is embedded with self-realisation, determination and renaissance. The Arabs, Persians and Indians when visiting the East Coast of Alkebu-Lan in the land of Sofalala to conduct trade with amongst others, the Wakwak in the southern extremity of our continent the whole area was known as Zang or Azania (the land of a black man). As a sign of emancipation a liberated people must reclaim the essence of a stolen legacy encapsulated in their identity; i.e. name; culture; languages, religions and natural resources; whose nationalization would thwart the unfettered theft by foreign capital masquerading as investors. A dialogue has to be opened and suggestions advanced if we are to avert occurrences like those of Numidia (Algeria) & Carthage (Tunisia) whose nomenclatural identity is lost forever. ps: Religious wars pose more threat to human existence on planet earth than global warming. Every religion has two groups: moderates and fanatics. The latter group consists of people with an IQ far below the threshold of rationalism. These are people who would kill and maim other human beings in the name of religion, just look at what is now happening in Nigeria, Sudan, Algeria, the Middle East etc. The continent of Ham is full of such people who have adopted belief systems whose proponents turned its indigenous people into robotic fanatics. More than half of Africa's bust and torso is clothed in far-fetched religious absurdities - an operative word here being "Miracle" for these absurdities. Upholders of indigenous religions were threatened with perdition, a stratagem employed to garner more proselytes and neophytes so to belabour dissent. Many bought into this ruse as gospel truth. It's inculcated in pre-schools & universities for graduates to get a Bachelors Degree in Divinity and the like. A true God is not a historical 'Being' or a science that can be studied for an educational qualification. I suppose God is nameless; unknowable; unfathomable; unimaginable & undiscussable who's addressed only in epithets. The internecine religious wars on the continent are results of people who copy those who recruited and clothed them in foreign religions turning them into intolerant religious converts!!! Izwe lethu ... -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
