The video is bilingual, first English (after a brief singing) and then in Kiswahili (after another singing).
"Bayakhala Okhokho be ANC"... "The Ancestors of the ANC are turning in their graves", goes the song in relation to the ongoing corruption and abuse of power by one Jacob Zuma.
The song also is a support song for Julius Malema to stay strong and pave the way for a rejuvenated and cleansed ANC, quite away and apart from Jacob Zuma's cabal politics where he wants to stay in power via baby-sitting the 70-year-old Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism within the ranks of an ANC formed by an anti-tribalist Pixley ka-Isaka Seme.
The Video exposes and blasts cabal politics in the leadership of the 100-year-old ANC formed, chiefly by the likes of Dr Pixley Seme of the Zulu ethnicity and Queenmother Labotsibeni of the Swazi.
The two were related by marriage, with Seme, among his many traditional-marriage liaisons, being a son-in-law to the Queenmother from which union, His Swazi Royal Highness, the late Mr Zwangendaba Seme was born.
Video also enunciates the break from Phiri addressing Zuma as head of state to addressing him as an individual incumbent who, at the expense of Phiri and much against South Africa's constitution, is busy abusing his power.
The video is in the English and later, the Kiswahili languages, except of course, the song thereto which is in Zulu. The video asks Zuma why there was no intra-African xenophobia in South Africa in the early part of the 20th century as people from all over continental Africa (e.g. Clements Kadallie from Malawi/Tanzania) helped pioneer a modern liberation struggle in this country. Zuma is being asked why now he victimizes Phiri just for being one ethnic Malawian who has no right, apparently per Jacob Zuma's views, to blow the whistle against Nelson Mandela's cousin who corruptly passed her studies in December 2000.
THE VIDEO ALSO BOLDLY ORDERS ZUMA: "MOVE OUT!".
Then of course there is the Swahili part of the video. The Swahili part of the video talks about the road 51-year-old Phiri has in sheer poverty and suffering travelled for decades trying to seek redress via the Bishop Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to no avail.
This, despite the fact that Bishop Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has in its records Phiri and his family in Tanzania (1993-1994) as victims to human rights abuses by Mandela's Xhosa tribalists in the particular hands of the likes of Jacob Zuma and his few Xhosa-speaking comrades-in-human-rights-crimes.
Zuma, Mbeki and Mandela all are refusing to pay reparation, compensation OR EVEN ASSISTANCE to Phiri as has been stipulated by a law that even gave the funds to Zuma's office to help those who suffered under Apartheid (so that Phiri's first wife, Tanzanian ethnic Mhehe,Leonilde Makafu-Phiri and two children, Thoko and Maziri, can be brought to South Africa where they rightly belong (except for the xenophobic thinking of the likes of Jacob Zuma who seem to say "South Africa for the Ngunis only" while other so-called blacks, so-called Coloured, and the Afrikaaners remain down-trodden like Phii).
The video points out that, where Jacob Zuma is concerned, instead of alleviating Phiri's pain from as a human-rights-abuse victim at the hands of the Zumas during the anti-apartheid struggle who retaliated on Phiri through further abuses CLEARLY-DECLARED, AND RECORDED BY THE TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION, Mr Zuma, in his infinitely crooked wisdom, adds new 2011 anti-Phiri charges on which, once again in sheer disdain of the consitution that guarantees, equality before the law, FLATLY THOUGH INEXPLICABLY REFUSES TO PAY FOR LAWYERS THAT WILL PROSECUTE PHIRI'S DEFENCE!
This happens because, for once again Phiri dared to raise issues of Xhosa-speaker tribalism pracitised in 2001 by Nelson Mandela's self-professed cousin, Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo.. The video expresses Phiri's preparedness to go to jail or even to die for his beliefs that Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism and Zuma's Nguni tribalism must be stopped and stopped for good in South Africa.
Video also (still in Swahili) points out that the High Courts of South Africa and their judges (like one racially emotional Judge Neil Tuchten during Tuchten and two fellow-ethnic European judges against native Phiri whose alleged crime is insulting "European Johannes Hendrik Beyers Kleynhans) are abused by Jacob Zuma.
Jacob Zuma uses judges as instruments of oppression where Phiri's case is concerned because, despite being a civil servant having a case stemming from blowing the whistle on workplace corruption, Jacob Zuma unconstitutionally refuses to pay lawyers defending Phiri's case at the High Court as is common-law practice for all civil servants in South Africa.
The result of this financial and cowardly asphyxiation of Phiri by Zuma is that, as of this moment PHIRI CAN'T PROSECUTE EVEN ONE SINGLE CASE IN HIS OWN DEFENCE IN A LITANY OF ZUMA CASES AGAINST PHIRI BECAUSE, HAVING IN THE PAST 10 YEARS OF THIS CASE PAID ABOUT R1-MILLION ALREADY THROUGH COURT FEES, PHIRI HAS BEEN COMPLETELY BEGGARED BY SOUTH AFRICA'S NGUNI TRIBALISTS AND XENOPHOBES LED B JACOB ZUMA. Hence Phiri returns to blogging about this tribal abuse of power in Zuma's South Africa.
The Kiswahili part of the presentation stresses that the Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism (baby-sitted by a Zuma who is in the process apparently trying to erect his own Zulu tribalism) IS NOT PER SE A SET OF TRIBALISMS by the Thembu or Xhosa tribe innate and cultural among those people! This is not the case! not even with the Zulu tribe.
Rather, and this should always be pointed out, is a tribalism of individiuals Jacob Zuma and Nelson Mandela and that is why Tembu people, Xhosa people and Zulu people need to support Phiri in fighting this canker WHICH DOES NOT REPRESENT THEIR ASPIRATIONS IN TERMS OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Indeed, they (particularly Xhosa-speakers) may have to pay a heavy price in future, if thinking members of their ethnicities, (just like just-minded so-called white people did during Apartheid to support the anti-Apartheid ANC did) DO NOT RIGHT NOW STAND TO CONDEMN WHAT TRIBALISM NELSON MANDELA STARTED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Unlike Jacob Zuma who is wont to doing so, thinking Xhosa-speakers in the Zuma-government positions replete with Zuma-supported Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism, MUST STAND UP TO BE COUNTED AS CONDEMNING THE ONGOING TRIBALISM.
It would be naive of them (Xhosa-speakers of whatever political persuasion and followng where their perceived tribalism is in ALL POLITICAL PARTIES) to join under-educated Mr Jacob Zuma in viewing Nelson Mandela AS THE SAINT THAT MANDELA IS DEFINITLEY NOT.
Praises of Nelson Mandela and the deification of him by ZUMA does not necessarily make Nelson Mandela (and his one too many state-employed and oppressive self-professed relative, self-fornicated-in-order-to-be-a-general-Zini-Bobelo) "gods over Phiri". I have my God in Heaven and Mandela and his one to many imperious relative in Zuma's abusive state power can look for slaves far away from Phiri!
PRAISES OF A MAN, NELSON MANDELA, WHO SOWED TRIBALISM IN THE ANC AS EARLY AS THE 1940s (doing such by means of side-lining ANC Founder Pixley Seme and essentially denying the fact that Mandela got to be a great leader of the ANC through the grooming by Seme too), does not necessarily make Mandela praiseworthy to the larger African populace.
The Video drives a point home that, from whatever patriotic political formations we come from, all of us need to rise up and help the ANC cleanse itself of the current apparent tribalists at its helm. We need to perform this national task "whoever we are be it members of the Democratic Alliance, of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the ANC etc".
We should remember that, whatever political organization we are affiliated with today, our mother political organization shall always remain this one and only African National Congress. Hence we need to support the ANC in its troubled Zuma era!
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| Phiri
(March 2012) and Last-born Child Tamara and the only one born in South Africa whereas two others and their mother are still banished to Tanzania by power-abusive, tribally-inclined Jacob Zuma who, instead of granting Phiri the funds held by Zuma's office to repatriate the rest of Phiri's family 18 years after the demise of Apartheid, Jacob Zuma adds 2011 December fresh victimization and persecution charges against Phiri for no reason whatsoever except Phiri's 2001 exposing corruption-for-promotion by Nelson Mandela's state-employed "Cousin", one Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo. Phiri was suspended from work by Zuma in March 2011 for the anti-Zini whistle-blowing. And now, everywhere Phiri goes near any serious Zuma's government offices, the suspension rules stipulate [Phiri must be escorted by armed military police] [or else Phiri will be put into immediate custody in any military barracks] for venturing out on his own, [all as if Phiri is a dangerous criminal] ALL IN THE NAME OF A ZUMA DEFENDING ADULTERY AND CORRUPTION IN HIS OWN GOVERNMENT! |
Pole sana kaka Phiri...it must be very very tough for you brother..If you believe, then keep playing cos our God is good. Greetings.
ReplyDeleteMija Shija Sayi, you buoy my hopes, my dear sister.
ReplyDeleteThe fight has hotted up like never before. I cannot go back now. I can only go forward. This is what war-plane pilots call: "The Point of No-Return".
Even if I should die in this anti-tribalism war I hope others can be inspired by my literary weapons against this enemy (and Pixley ka-Isaka Seme's "Demon") of Tribalism and xenophobia under Jacob Zuma's watch in South Africa.
My strength comes from you as a readership; it comes from my fellow South Africans black and white together who, except for the few notorious politicians, are as one man standing firm against all forms of the black racism and tribalism brewing from inside our otherwise great African National Congress, the ruling party currently presided over by Zuma.
Indeed, without these anti-racism South-African compatriots by my side, you would not be reading what you read here, Mija.
I am just a mere feebro, maybe my own coinage for "that somebody who, despite being FEEBLE, turns out shining like HERO only because everybody around him or her will, albeit secretly, egg him on with the words: 'You are in our prayers.'"
In that respect, your comment has also served to remind me of a biblical verse Zulu Christians beatifully paraphrase as follows:
"Owuqalile umsebenzi uzowufeza empilweni yami" And that paraphrase is in fact from the Book of Hebrews(12:2) whose "Aramaic Bible in Plain English" (©2010) reads as follows:
“And let us gaze at Yeshua, Him who is The Author and The Perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was His, endured the cross and ignored the shame, and He sits upon the right side of the throne of God.”