Your relatives are no laughing matter, Lass! my last-born child, 2010-born Tamara Sibusisiwe Phiri laughing everything off "this father's craze about relatives" |
- The second great-grandchildren of Swazi Nobleman Somnjalose Simelane is where things start to be quite interesting, at least for the few of them that I have come to know about...
- ...And these arePrince Sigeyeza (Blogger's ancestor ex-Khenkana and Maiden LaKhumalo, or if you like, Belinda Thokozile Mavimbela-Phiri's maternal grandfather),Prince Folozi (Sigeyeza's elder own brother and Bloggers maternal-twice-great-uncle),Blogger's maternal First Cousin thrice-removed Prince Lomanyaza (ex-Prince-Mdayi-waSomhlolo and, of course,Swazi King Mbandzeni, who is Blogger's First Cousin thrice-removed.
- I always face no problem in relating the roots of royalty since it tends to be public knowledge (if not the flyleaf of any book on national history).
Suffice it to say that King Mbandzeni is the husband of the legendary Swazi Queenmother Labotsibeni, a.k.a. Indlovukati Gwamile LaMdluli.
Her Swazi Majesty Labotsibeni (and Blogger's First Cousin) then becomes the woman ranking as the topmost behind-the-scenes architect to the founding of South Africa's ruling African National Congress.
This happens not only because of her pearls of wisdom that she was sharing with ANC arch-founder Dr Pixley Seme who begot a child with Swazi Princess Lozinja(the Queenmother's daughter, if not a niece), but she contributed a total of 200 cattle (from Swaziland to South Africa) for the founding of the ANC as well as its first mouthpiece, Abantu/Batho.
We know of course that Jacob Zuma's mentor, Nelson Mandela, has long killed and even stolen for himself the legacy of both Seme and the Swazi contribution to the founding of the ANC over which he blindly presides hence we are made victims of persecution pro-Mandela-tribalism in the very organization that our ancestors founded. - Having dilated on my maternal first cousin Swazi King Mbandzeni, I need to briefly revisit the other three aforementioned second great-grandchildren of Nobleman Somnjalose Simelane...
- Starting with my first cousin twice removed, Prince Lomanyaza:
The Prince, without consideration to order of birth, fathered the following of my maternal second cousins twice removed
CHWALILE WA LOMANYAZA NA LANHLABATSI
Firstly, Princess Chwalile Dlamini (who turned Mrs Zulu on marrying) and settled at the original Mbombela Township of Mpumalanga's Nelspruit.
SOPHIE WA LOMANYAZA NA LANHLABATSI
Secondly, Princess Sophie Dlamini (who turned Mrs Masina on marriage and residence at Nelspruit's Pienaar Township)
The aforementioned two royal girls are, as indicated, children of Somnjalose Simelane's second-Great-grandchild Prince Lomanyaza wa Mdayi, wa Somhlolo, waLaSimelane, waSomnjalose Simelane...
...and being no snail, the Prince needed some crucial biological assistance from a Nhlabatsi Maiden to beget the two aforesaid royal girls...
...But then there was a boy among the girls (if by a Mavimbela Maiden).
KHENKANA WA LOMANYAZA NA LAMAVIMBELA
As old as the hills and as blind as the mole with a split image facially with my grandmother Mafede, he lives a stone's throw from Blogger's former junior secondary school Elukwatini/Embhuleni (near defunct Msauli asbestos mine).
This third and very male child of Prince Lomanyaza's is named Prince Khenkana (waLomanyaza, waMdayi, waSomhlolo, waLaSimelane, waSomnjalose Simelane ), having been bequeathed the name of his own great-uncle who is my direct ancestor (via my mother Belinda, via gran Mafede, Via Sigeyeza via the more senior Prince Khenkana waSomhlolo waLaSimelane waSomnjalose Simelane) - That is all I know about Somnjalose Simelane's two second-great-grandchildren and my maternal first-cousins thrice removed: the Royal Dlaminis' Lomanyaza and, secondly, Mbandzeni, the Swazi Crown.
- Bear a little bit more with me now as I deal with the second two second greats who are closer to my ancestry;
- the two brothers, Folozi, the elder sibling; and Sigeyeza (both children of Prince Khenkana waSomhlolo waLaSimelane waSomnjalose Simelane).
However, as a matter of note, it would seem that there is a rose between the two thorns. I am not sure...and nobody seems to be sure about her details although her royalty is not in doubt because it was to the grave of Nkosazana wa Khenkana (in Siswati "Inkhosatane ya Khenkhane") that I was taken to for blessings when I slaughtered a cow for my maternal grandmother at the Phiri homestead in Mayflower in May 2009my mother's maternal second cousin, Me Klara Mncina of Emjindini
Barberton, receiving Little Tamara Phiri from my wife,
for blessings early 2011
Klara Mncina is a walking encyclopedia on the history of
the House of Sobhuza's son, Prince Khenkana
SIGEYEZA WA KHENKANA NA LAKHUMALO - Prince Sigeyeza Dlamini is my maternal great-grandfather on whose issue there is ample room to dilate on in the next post or two.
- I will therefore for the moment dwell with the Sigeyeza's elder brother, Prince Folozi Dlamini who of course is my maternal twice-great-uncle. Mfolozi/Folozi is also the maternal grandfather to my second cousins once removed, the above-pictured Klara Mncina and the renowned Roman Catholic cleric, Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa whose sister, my cousin Mrs and Her Royal Highness Ntombikayise Agatha Tini Nkosi features on the video lower down this post)
- Folozi and his younger brother (Sigeyeza) as well as with their father (among the royal entourage), came to Emjindini in the 19th century with lots of legends following their life paths.
- I know for a fact, for a good example, that a tourist site in the neighbourhood of Barberton ("Shangubo Dam" which I'm told is a bastardization of the Swazi word "Shiyangubo") is named after these Swazi royal folks and emissaries of Mswati, my third great-uncle and ruling son to predecessor father, King Sobhuza I.
- They were tasked with coming and strengthening the Swazi military post (umphakatsi) at what is now known as Barberton, better known as Emjindini (which is where lies the featured grave of Inkhosatane ya Khenkhane and even the grave of Prince Folozi that I also visited on April 2009).
- While Prince Sigeyeza (with Maiden LaMthupha) famously fathered Princess Mafede (my maternal grandmother), Prince Folozi (with Maiden LaMkhatshwa) famously fathered Princess Sifaphi.
- I know pictures exist somewhere for the famous two princesses (my grandmother Mafede and my first cousin twice removed Sifaphi and mother to the aforementioned Father Mkhatshwa) and will one day lay my hands on them, deo volente.
- Suffice it, for the moment to give you a glimpse in beauty of those royal ladies by showing you pictures of five of their grandchildren.
- Looking at them, utazimia! (and that was Kiswahili, the best I could express it, to show my feelings of their exquisite looks).
- And while you're watching third copies of the originals, consider just how sparklingly glossy the originals themselves must have been...and that is Swazi Royal Blood for You!
- First the video of (Princess Sifaphi's daughter) my maternal-second cousin once-removed, Mrs Agatha Tini Ntombikayise Nkosi of Mpumalanga (she is one of the first relatives to receive and counsel my second wife, Latsabedze, on our post-nuptial arrival from Swaziland where we conducted our traditional marriage).
My mother, Belinda Thokozile Mavimbela-Phiri wa Mafede ( and Verimuch Mavimbela) waSigeyeza ( and LaMthupha) waKhenkhane ( and LaKhumalo) waSomhlolo ( and LaTfwala) waLaSimelane (and Ndvungunye) waSomnjalose Simelane |
- Of course, Princes Folozi and Sigeyeza fathered many more children (other than Mafede and Sifaphi), who should, all things being equal, feature in my next post
- Lastly, of course, comes the question you may ask after patiently reading my hastily-written post is
- Why have you REALLY decided to research as well as to publish your ancestry like your immediate great uncles Princes Khoza, Mdayi; Great Aunt Princess Lositfupha; and your Maternal twice-great grandfather Prince Khenkana?
- The answer to this is simple:
- At the pace things for Phiri's life are going with Mr Jacob Zuma leaving me no quarter to enjoy my human rights as a full-fledged South African citizen, one day I will end up (if I am lucky) prematurely in a coffin or (in the standard way of the doings of the Zumas in exile), Simply Disappeared Without Trace.
- For that matter, one of my relatives featured here, Mrs Thembisile Nyathi, whom I have given the honour of being the first person highlighted here read last week this blog and another and got the shock of her life I was in so much trouble and told me in tears that she does not think I will survive this war. I promised my first cousin Thembisile "It is not a worry for me if I survive or die in this fight, my worry is those who, like Mr Zuma are busy engineering my destruction, should not live to enjoy the fruits of their crime just like those who caused Stanza Bopape to disappear to this day are driving expensive cars around Pretoria smiling "Just how stupid black people are: we murdered them, tortured them, and caused them to disappear without trace yet they never even bothered to try and found out who we were... thank you very much Mr Mandela for forgiveness".
- "If I should die." I told Thembisile. "No Human Rights Court out to prosecute a suspected-perpetrator-Zuma for his abuses against me, should struggle as to whom to ask, whom to appeal to, and whom to pillory."
- Also it is important for me for the records of my exile-growing children to know not only their relatives (like Thembisile Nyathi) but also the people, like Mr Jacob Zuma who caused via artificial charges and denial of information in respect of my TRC-Truth-and-Reconciliation-Commission-case, caused them (my children and their Tanzanian mother) for 18 solid years now, to remain marooned and effectively banished to the East-African country.
- Beside the sweet tears of Cousin Thembisile Nyathi, I was also prompted to identify people around my life after reading today two important messages on this Human Right's Day in South Africa, one Delivered by the office of the State President, while the other, by the office of the Public Protector.
- Notwithstanding the fact that I have been truly buoyed by the Human-rights statement coming from the Presidency, the past two incumbents to the President’s Office have since been very destructive towards any notion of addressing, let alone redressing the Goodman Manyanya Phiri cases of deeply violated human rights to this day, 21 March 2012. I call it
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- Indeed, even as I am preparing this post template March 21, 2012, there are indications that there are Nguni, particularly "Mandelasque-Xhosa tribal" plans afoot to make sure that, after 60 solid years of an ANC dominated by Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism, the oncoming first non-Nguni President of the ANC i.e. Khalema Motlanthe, will in the future be bracketed by Nguni with both a former President Zuma being Nguni and a future president being Nguni "BECAUSE NON-NGUNI AFRIKANERS, PEDIS, KHOIS, Non-Nguni COLOUREDS, SOTHOS, TSWANAS, ETHNIC INDIANS, Non-Nguni SANS, VENDAS, SHANGAANS, AND EVEN FELLOW-NGUNIS LIKE SWAZI AND NDEBELES, ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TOO DUMB TO RUN THE ANC ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT THE POLICING PRESENCE OF A ZULU OR A XHOSA-SPEAKER")
- While the messages from both the venerable offices of the Presidency and the Public Protector are encouraging that one day, after 27 solid years having my human rights being abused by nobody else but the people in power today with and including Mr Jacob Zuma as my commander in chief who last year violently turned against his own subordinate Phiri, six armed military policemen ("with murderously bloodshot eyes") at the latter’s Lyttelton official residence all in order to suppress whistle-blowing on corruption at the workplace, I will one day maybe get a state President and/or a Public Protector who will listen to my case with the correct glasses of lawfulness and not abuse of the courts just because “[I Zuma am the commander in chief over Phiri and I will not allow Phiri to blow the whistle on any corruption by any of my friend Mandela's relatives like Zini-Bobelo]”.
- I hope one day I will have retained to South Africa my first wife Leonilde and Children Thoko and Maziri (otherwise banished to Tanzania by the Jacob Zumas to this day despite TRC rulings to their favour as victims of human rights abuses at the hands of Xhosa-speaking Clarence Makwetu, Monezi Gcilitshe, Benson Mandindi and supposedly Sotho-speaking Daniel Mohato Mofokeng a.k.a. “Romero”).
- I hope the false 2001 charges that two clearly Nguni-tribalized gentlemen Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma meted out against me for blowing the whistle against their fellow-Nguni Ntombizodwa Zini-Bobelo who corrupted a security organization in Year 2000, will be dropped by a sober-minded incumbent to the presidency seeing that those trumped-up charges came three days after my writing a grievance to the presidency over the Mashoala-Ramano cover-up to the Zini-Bobelo-fornication-for-promotion, and a Phiri grievance letter written 6 March 2001 (over the aforementioned, self-corrupted Zini-Bobelo, for which Zuma is prepared to lose his ANC leadership over for ignoring all grievances written him over the corruption by his friend Mandela's self-professed cousin Zini-Bobelo over the rot in Zuma government offices otherwise meant to serve South Africans fairly without any Xhosa tribalism, black racism or Zumaism)
- For that matter, I don’t need spy tapes to have the charges dropped. I just need the implementation of a South African law called PAJA (Public Administration Justice Act) ...implemented by a fair-handed and constitutionally-minded future president who cannot only be sympathetic to an act of whistle-blowing, but will not be talking Zuma’s language that [charges that come after a grievance was written to The President over corruption cover-ups, should take precedence over the grievance, as indeed, even as of today, Mr Zuma has flatly refused to address a grievance launched with the office of the presidency on 06 March 2001 BECAUSE HE DESIRES TO ABUSE THE COURTS AND GET ME WRONGFUL FIRED THROUGH THE VICTIMIZATION CHARGES THAT EMANATED FROM MY BLOWING ON THE WHISTLE ON ONE TOO MANY CORRUPT XHOSA-SPEAKING "MANDELA-RELATIVE" IN GOVERNMENT!].
- In the near future, I hope to get both a President and a Public Protector who will ensure me a refund of my personal R1-million spent since 2004 fighting a victimization case alone in the Supreme Court, while Messrs Mbeki and Zuma were abusing courts to silence a whistleblower.
- I hope to get a Public Protector who will assist me together with the future State President to revive the two cases I have pending in both the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court for otherwise having run out of funds to prosecute them. Mr Jacob Zuma, where he is clearly a collaborator to my victimization in favour of the Zini lady, cannot be getting a judgement by default where he has unlawfully denied me the financial power, like is due to any civil servant charged at work, to prosecute my case.
- In any constitutional democracy like ours, incumbent Mr Zuma, his minister or his other security subordinates in the “per-judge-unmentionable” department whence I was falsely charged in 2001, removed and caused to loiter in office as of 2002, dragged very litigiously to a string of Supreme Courts hearings from 2004 to 2010 over the same Zini-Bobelo corruption matter, and finally escorted at gunpoint in 2011 to stay at home forever, CANNOT GET ANY JUDGEMENT BY DEFAULT.
- Mr Zuma cannot get any judgment by default to his favour when he himself with one side of the tongue orders his director general to the department concerned to deny Phiri funds to pay lawyers for the 11-year-old case while the other fork of the tongue announces on this Human Rights Day today [South Africans have equality before the law]:"Let us celebrate the right to life, equality before the law, human dignity, freedom and security of the person,"
- Does Mr Zuma seriously call it "human dignity" the poverty-stricken conditions that he (through abuse of state power to protect Zini-Bobelo's work-place-prostitution-for promotion), as per the next video shows, he has forced Phiri to live under in Mamelodi, Pretoria, South Africa?
- As a victim, I still do not think anybody who helps not himself deserves help. That is why today on this Human Right's day, I've resolved to point out individuals who had a role negative or positive in my 27-year-old struggle (since 1985 in an ANC exile) against Mandelasque Xhosa-tribalism in the otherwise most venerable anti-racism and anti-tribalism African National Congress among whose founders, I am proud to say it till my last breath, were my maternal cousins by affinity, Swazi Queenmother Labotsibeni and Pixley ka Isaka Seme the latter of whom as you might know, via Swazi Princess Lozinja, made Zulu conjugal relationships with the Swazi Royal House from which house maternally descend not only my third maternal cousin Mr Zwangendaba Seme, but, of course, my own mother, Mrs Belinda Thokozile Mavimbela-Phiri too, and her immediate ancestors: mother Princess Mafede Nkosi, grandfather Prince Sigeyeza Nkosi, great-gran Prince Khenkana, to my mother's twice-great gran, [His Majesty Swazi King Sobhuza the First and Maternal Third Great Grandfather to Writer and Blogger Goodman Manyanya Phiri].
- Lastly, I need to mention the fact that I am aware of the level of bad feelings, from both friend and foe, this post may generate.
- But I am also aware of the inestimable value it will have to those who are research-minded.
- From foes: it will solicit rancour because for the first time I am identifying Zuma's 27-year-old and older instruments of his xenophobic oppression on Phiri.
- From some friends and relatives: bitterness because in general people dislike their details going on-line (you would swear maybe they once saw a computer mauling and fatally biting a close relative's head!)
- The second and perhaps most important reason why some (but not all) relatives and friends may fume at seeing their names on these posts is the fact that people do not want to be associated with a revolutionary like Goodman Manyanya Phiri. (Interestingly, once Revolutionary Phiri becomes President of South Africa Phiri tomorrow, the very same people will be the first to jump (pretty much like self-corrupted Zini-Bobelo is doing about the Old-man Mandela who may not even know the Zini-Bobelo character possibly abusing his in-many-respects-deservedly great name) and say: "Hey, did you know that the President is my cousin?"
- To particularly my blood relatives (if it will help where I am sometimes said to be caustic), I have one message to say to your mollification and placation: I DO NOT NEED YOUR PERMISSION TO TELL THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE MY RELATIVE SINCE I AM NOT SUGGESTING HEREBY THAT WE, BY VIRTUE OF BLOOD TIES, "SHARE THE SAME POLITICAL VIEWS". Indeed, Cousin of mine reading this, only an imbecile can jump to conclusions like "If Phiri is the thief, then so too is his first cousin Thembisile or any other cousin".
- That part having been put to bed, I do though admit guilt in advance, that, where my friends, relatives and "allies" are concerned, I will also per accident or even design, open up serious family discussions on issues of paternity that others would best confine to the family whisperings. But still, if you or I think X is not Phiri's father (and we've talked about it in the family to the extent that Phiri has publicly changed his surname from "Phiri" to the "Sibeko" who is supposed to be the "real" father i.e. biological father, EXCEPT FOR THE HEAD-MUNCHING MONSTER CALLED A COMPUTER, what is the difference between the on-line public on one hand and on the other hand: the public stretching from Phiri's residential neighbourhood to Home Affairs offices?
- Surely I would hate it when I am gone and my currently two-year-old daughter Tamara or Zuma-exiled 18-year-old daughter Thoko goes to visit an aunt who, though per her own professions is not an own sister to my daughter's father WOULD LIKE TO BE WITH MY DAUGHTER WHEN THINGS LOOK BRIGHT FOR THE PHIRIS AND DESERT THE PHIRI FAMILY WHEN DAYS ARE AS DARK AS THEY HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS in a xenophobic Apartheid, that was followed by a Mandelasque Xhosa tribalism, which has now apparently spawned a Zumaphoid racist South Africa)
- Lastly, I am a strong believer in the notion that your life is not in your hands; rather it is in the hand of your enemy if not that of your God, meaning that your enemy (marked "Foe" in these posts) is probably the most important person in your life. Treat your enemy with dignity and he will treat you with equal dignity; and treat him like an animal and he will do the same to you when the tables are turned as they surely shall be turned one day in favour of your enemy!
- May it be the last accusation against Goodman Manyanya Phiri that I did not appreciate potential salvation from my own enemies, but I am not about to treat them with undue respect when they have so much brutalized me, my wives and children for the past 27 years now, without any scintilla of remorse. Sorry, but respect does not come cheap from a Phiri. We are the original kings of all humanity, us Phiris; and we deserve a measure of respect from commoners like Mr Zuma... Hallelujah!
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