You can take me out of the township but you can’t township out of me

Growing up in the township seeing people you admire driving 1989 BMW 325 is (Igusheshe or Ithemba lamarumusha) some driving 1989 BMW 333 limited edition ( Insimbi yama rumusha),  and having that dream that one day I’m going to drive or own that car. Those were the days because I’m a growing up man who have responsibilities and goals, despite that I grew in the township.

However we are working so hard in order to make it in life, some are made it, and some are not, those people who made it in life they don’t want anything do with the township. I just wonder what they are going to tell their grand children about their lives. As for me I don’t see nothing wrong about   kasi (township), it’s what you see it’s what you get’.

One of the things that make me loves kasi its

·        Culture       : Drifting and loud sound

·        Lingo                   : Ingamla ( white man), Mabhebeza (women)

·        Mindset      : we don’t buy faces , we don’t care who you are

·        Food          : Pap and Nyama or braai meat

Tourists are flocking in the township because they want experience our life. One of the people who forget where I’m coming, you can take me out of the township but you can’t township out of me.

http://theridgeonline.co.za/life-lived-to-the-max-imum/

http://skillsunbearable.blogspot.com/p/zim-ridez.html

How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

Life is about what you want? How are you going to get it? What are you going to do with it?  All my days at varsity I met different people coming from different background, some of them coming far as Limpopo, some coming far as Congo and Sierra Leone.

Let me tell you a story of a friend of mine by the name Linda muhwambi, was born in Congo and raised in Sierra Leone 26 years ago. Muhwambi was one of the children who were forced to be a child soldier, but fortunately he ran away from the camp because he didn’t want to be a soldier, all he wanted was to be a doctor.

He left the camp without food but he knew where he was heading to, fortunately enough he found himself in South African. Image yourself in a foreign land without your family and you have to start a new life. However he managed to get a job in a nearest farm and he worked so hard to save his money, and then left the farm job for security job. After some time he enrolled at Boland College for National Certificate Civil Engineering and Construction, by that time he was working straight night and during the day attending his classes. After he passes his course he enrols at Stellenbosch University for Medicine.

Today Linda Muhwambi is currently doing his third year in medicine. Life is all about hard work, risk, determination

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20145628,00.html

  

We are afraid of the wrong things

Have you ever think what would happen if you not listening to your parents. Our parents raised us with love and respect, but sometimes we tend to forget about what they thought us, because we tend to listen to our friends.

I remember when I grew up my parents used to tell me if you do A&B this is what will happen to you, because at that time we were listening because we were children. We were afraid of the wrong things but as child you want to experiment or experience what your parents told you not do it. In our culture if you a child especial girl there is certain food that you not allow to eat because the elders know what is going to happen to you. But the main problem with children is curiosity and they want to know what the main reason be hide not eating certain food. We are afraid of the wrong things

Fish falling from the sky

After I read story about more 120 Nigerians were deported because of fake documents, and Nigerian government intervene on the matter by saying South African government is Xenophobic.

The document which was asked by South African authorities was the yellow card, which is a public health document, shows that bearers have been vaccinated against yellow fever.

 I believe that each an every country has its own rules and regulations that have to be followed. But the problem is that the Nigerian government cancelled all the airlines between Johannesburg Nigeria due the fact that South African government is xenophobic.

However the Nigerian authorities continued to point fingers to our government about their own problems, and South Africans who are working in Nigerian denial access because of misunderstanding, fish falling from the sky