Obama, show us the way... beyond freedom

Africa's big day has come and gone and the problems of poverty, instability, famine, political upheavals prevail.

The AU still sits with pride as they review gains made and the president of SA dances the nigh away oblivious of the problems that beset the troubled continent.

If I write too long I will be doing what the esteemed members of the AU and the various government officials are doing all over the continent....talking and doing nothing.

Well today the business paper I publish, Vulindlela, which is owned by SABHIBA, is going to print. I hope to inspire a myriad of wannabe entrepreneurs and business people.
This way, I hope I will show a lot of people what attaining freedom means.

Black South Africans shedding their culture to please whites

The Archbishop once described SA as a rainbow nation. That was during the heady days of reconciliation after the first democratic elections in SA. At that time everyone was eager to smile and bear it in the name of making the new SA a happy and war free country. Nobody in SA wanted to see the country go into racial chaos and deep into despair because of racial confusion.

Now, many days later, is SA one happy nation? The questions, does SA act as one nation, do they practise the same culture, or are they a rainbow culture? Every one with their own cultural identity in the rainbow?

SA is dominated by Africans, who, most of the time live culturally like blake people do.Black people are all over the country and the dominate at two channels of the state run SABC. They, Black people own several newspapers and magazines.Black people scream at the top of their voices that soccer is the number one spot in SA. By their sheer numbers one and presence all over the country it was expected that blacks would influence non-Africans culturally.

But the opposite has happened . Automatically and without undue force from other nationals. Black people are falling all over themselves to live people who are not Africans. They are also so keen ,in the country that they rule, to obey municipal bylaws that prevent the slaughtering of live animals as their traditions dictates.They have abdicated thie their way of living so as to accommodate civilization.

It is high time the department of culture moves out obscurity and lead SA. They dept must start living nad practising SA culture so that we are not confused to know what is still culturally acceptable and what is civilised.

Every thing European is considered chick and modern. Is black culture outdated and old fashioned? Will a black woman, in Black riled SA, be arrested by black should she found bare breasted and eating with her hands in Moyo restaurant in Sandton? Will she be out of order if she as ked for a Mahlathini music piece at Michaelangelo?

The culture dept come out the dark shadows afraid of civilisation to lead us on one way forward as a nation.

South Africa's misguided war with foreigners

Obama…show us the way beyond freedom…

South Africa is plagued by sporadic incidents of violence against foreign nationals, particularly those from Africa, at the moment.

This is unfortunate. South Africa is regarded as a ‘miracle’, since there was not civil unrest after April 1994. The world perceives South Africans as mature when it comes to conflict resolution and when matters of race besiege the inhabitants.

South Africans have lived with foreign nationals for a long time, and the existence was peaceful. Even after 1994 the existence was peaceful. This xenophobic behaviour is a new phenomenon. The problem here is not about the foreigners; but against the SA government and foreigners from Africa themselves. 

Let me start by saying that African head of states must start making conditions conducive to live in in their country. They must improve economic conditions and make life habitable. Provide a better health care and provide opportunities for good business. They should also discourage civil unrest and wars and take steps to eradicate poverty. Political instability must be ended and senseless persecutions against opponents stopped.

That will encourage these people who are in South Africa at the moment to return home and help in the growth of their countries.

Here in South Africa the government has no clue on how to treat Africans who want to enter the country. The border is too wide open for whoever wants to come in; there is no control. These foreigners end up taking up the resources meant for the bona fide inhabitants.

In 2008 in Ramaphosa settlement Germiston foreigners boasted about how they own RDP houses, how they have jobs and money to woo South African ladies. South African men did not take kindly to this and tempers flared. Some foreigners allege that the education here is inferior, something that do not sit well with people in SA.

South Africans have a right to feel aggrieved when their government does not listen to them. But they have no right to burn property that belongs to foreign people, nor do they have the right to maim and kill them.

That is why a call goes out to esteemed presidents and leaders of the world to help JG Zuma in this regard.

Economic downhill: the african corner shop

Oh Obama, show us the way...beyond freedom...!

While it is said in business that entrepreneurs are in it for the smart money to be made, it is equally sad to notice that most Africans regard business as only a means to survive.

A business administration course will tell you that a business must have a business plan. Among other things, the business plan will make sure it tells you how profit will be realised, how much is expected as profit and what the envisaged prospects for the business are.

But, sadly, it would seem as if African business men ignore this important document. Sometimes you wonder that, if they do have the document, do they ever go through it? African industries and business simply do not make money for growth. How do you explain the eternal poverty? It is now the time Obama, to show what it means to really be in business. It is now important to show the present business men in Africa how to make sure that they understand how to make profit so as to sustain generations that will follow and at the same time remove the shadow of the white man hovering above them. It can never be that the black man is destined, forever, to be under the oppression of the white man.
It must be said though, that the reason that the white man is still on top and enjoying a far happier lifestyle is in fact the African's own doing. The African labours and toils hard to make money and resources available for the white man. In turn, when he is supposed to do the same for himself and his folk, he considers that sacrifice to be demeaning.

The corner shop is now a dilapidated version of the spanking new dreams of yesteryear. This neglect backs up the argument that says the African man has no respect for himself, his wife, his children and his land. The moment has arrived for us to examine how the black Africans treat their business. The stock, the buildings, the human resources, other infrastructure, and all the ethics of entrepreneurship. The dream can not fade so easily, can it?

Surely there must be a fault somewhere. Surely! Can it be that it is inherent of the African to be apathetic and ineffectual?
You are an African Obama, but of a different kind. Your corner shop is now a vast, industrialised and developed country. Sir, now stop and pause for a moment. You are a lone African man striding confidently forward. Where is the rest of the black elite? Do you think that they will retard your onward step with idle rhetoric? Or most importantly, will they ever be within your speaking range as they will be busy with tribal wars?

Please do something. Summon your top men. Let them write a good business manual and throw it to the Africans. Send in your trusted men to Africa to co-run business. It is not interfering, it is saving the African soul. You will not want to sit grey-beared on a rocking chair, listening on the radio about how you failed Africa as another African child dies of hunger. You do not want that, do you? You do not want to lament, "If only I had spent one percent of my presidential time on African issues..."

But I am wrong. The African man knows where the fault is. He has debated this fact countlessly with other African men during those summits, meetings, conferences, commissions and other lavish come-togethers. The white man , in pursuit of the African wealth, has also done a lot of feasibility study. He has also paid a lot of black men money to kill and maim others in pursuit of that wealth. But the Africans have simply shrugged their shoulders and turned away from the problem in disgust. This situation, this apathy, must be halted. And it is likely that it will not be the African continent that will be able to come do it herself. Someone reasonable and with a lot of more sense of humanity will have to do it. Obama, you run a country which is far more developed than any other on the busness rankings. It is therefore befitting that a little continent like Africa must be your sidekick.

Don't turn away sir. Africa has been in this disarray for so long, as if she was waiting for your reign. Don't turn away from her dismay and turmoil, she is too traumatised and self-inflicted to recognise any self-help. So much suspicion from her own people make any home-made remedy to be treated with scorn and caution and then tossed-away as another witchcraft concoction.

Help, please.

Oh Obama, show us the way...beyond freedom...!

african report card: zero sofar

Obama show us the way…beyond freedom…

An African report card. Zero so far.

One of the great mysteries of the world have been the inability of the black nation s to rise up after independence and become independent and succeed in acquiring prosperity for their counties, What has followed, instead, has been catastrophe, famine, wars, ethnic cleansing and general disorder. What can the cause be that leaders chose to ignore the rule of law and the needs of their communities? Maybe the first step must be introspection.

Maybe we should start at the beginning and look at ourselves, the way we relate to one another. Do we have respect for the next black man standing next to us? Do we have dignity for ourselves and others; do we treat each other as human beings, for our sake? Do we love one another as a black nation? Or is the black man in ruins, in shackles and ready to be the ashes of the world, to be trampled upon by other races? Do we trust one another? Is there discipline? We have to ask these questions. Why is it that we the black man in co-existence with other races then the blacks are always taken or treated like second class citizens? Do we bring upon ourselves to be treated shabbily?

In South Africa, black people pride themselves that they have, in what in the Nguni language is called ‘ Ubuntu’ or ‘Botho’ in Sesotho. They say they have Ubuntu/ Botho so they treat everybody humbly, humanely, with total respect and according to the norms of society. But this is where the problem lies. The pride in Ubuntu/ Botho is only trumpeted when black people speak about themselves with other races. But do Black people treat each other with respect? Why does the black man not move from the shadows of the world, and stand in the front of the shrine? Is fighting and defeating other races, especially the whites, the only triumph that there is for the black man to savior? Is that the only stories he will tell his starving children hours on and? That we fought hard for our freedoms and eventually we won? Africa has won her freedoms, she has attained dignity, she has shown the white man that she can fight a war and win it. Is that an honor? To fight and achieve peace and freedom through wars? Is it what the blacks want their starving, uneducated children and women to praise hold in esteem and cherish?
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What do the children and the women see around Africa as they listen to legendary stories about the bush wars? Are they pleased? Do they believe the story when they are told about Ubuntu/ Botho? What do African children and women think when they see happy families with contended faces across the oceans in the families of the very colonialists that have vanquished?
African Americans are said to be only 13% of the US population. That they have sought to organize themselves to deliver themselves out of the poverty and misery is commendable US the is a relatively successful country. African-Americans should be the yard stick of all the African people on how to group themselves. They must shake off the gloating about attaining freedom and showing the world how African can push for successful, meaningful business entitles. Enough of breast beating, enough about winning the war against the white man. Let the war be about the emancipation of the African from the state of apathy. Let the African stand up to do the honorable thing, make sure now the future of every child is rosy and guaranteed.

Surely, it is evident that the black man did not hit the ground running. He hit the ground, looked around and sat down gloat about his acquisitions. He did not only develop that. He also developed mistrust and indiscipline. He mistrusted his own brothers; he looked at him with scorn, hatred and malice. Instead of saying ‘Now that we have hit the ground, let us prepare the ground and put seed in the in it, preserve water in the dams and protect their animals, raise the children and love their mothers,’ No the black man started to gather things under his wings like a madman. His eyes were never raised to look at others, but down on the things he wanted to steal, claim as his own.

So the mistrust continued .It permeated from the top to the bottom. The children don’t trust their elders anymore. They see the elders involved in corrupting, drunkenness, and rude behavior. Obsession with the white man, laziness, unworthy relationships and the inability to make money, so as to take a stake in the economy and business life.


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Eventually, the man at the top has books a flight to a distant, white controlled land. He has amassed all he could and for him, it is a good bye black man life, goodbye Africa. It is then left to the man caught in the middle be man in between to tell the stories and to gloat about the war over the white man and the flight of the wealthy brothers.

Things, they say, do not last forever. Obama is that hope and change the African world yearns for. Let him, now that he has become the American President show the world that the he will run that country like a human being would and not like a black man who find’s himself suddenly on a pedestal. Let him please show African leaders that gloating and malice never filled the stomachs of the children the women. Let us wait for him and see him do all things good for the betterment of his country and in the process open the eyes and ears of this beloved brothers else where that malice, mistrust and indiscipline have no place in the development of the human race anymore.

Like all blacks do when they have messed up and everything else have failed, hands thrown up in the air with disillusionment, looking for a scape goat, we pray. We kneel down to pray. But this time the prayer is full of truth, we don’t lie about our status why we are poor souls; we don’t beat about the bush. We ask God to bless Obama.

Africa has failed to do the simple things in life, like planting a seed for prosperity. Instead Africa is obsessed with the defeat of the white man.


Obama is lucky that he will lead a successful nation a nation that will not resort to stabbing him in the back, therefore retarding progress, but a nation that will respect and push him to new heights.

Black man, it is now... Or never

Ohh, Obama, show us the way… Beyond freedom…

Black man: It is now or never!

The time has arrived, Mr. Barrack Obama, for the black man to shine. He has attained his freedom, he has his bearings and he has fought a justified war. This is not the time to sit on his laurels and pat himself on a back. This is the time to hit the ground running.

Soon you will be president of United States of America. But we all know, and we all hope, that you will not forget where your roots are embedded, where the womb of your humane is natured and fertilized. You will always, when you reflect, ask yourself, “What about them far away at home?”

That’s why a call is loud and clear. “Ohh, Obama show us way…Beyond freedom”. The truth is sir; Africa did not hit the ground running. Africa was distracted, her focus lost within her own people, distrust and greed robbed her of the ability to think like a human being. After independence and the attainment of freedom, Africa, in the absence of the repelled white race, sought in a new enemy. That is when and then turned incestuous. The black man inherited a land raped and shredded by colonialists. The scramble for Africa left it tattered and bleeding, wounds open and the pus throbbing under swollen, festering sores. After all this slavery her mind was left numb and tired as a new beginning beckoned invitingly in the horizon. But history has shown up that instead the black man did not embrace the horizon as it ushered in a festival of prosperity, life and love. He focused on greed and mayhem. He turned on his fellow brother and in the process, the women, the children and the land suffered. The black man rapes Africa better that the white man because there is no sample of a better state to learn from. All states are corrupt and morbidly ambitious. From the beginning all states were born-again corrupt regimes. While they maimed comrades in arms they made the situation worse by looking up to the white man for funds, and in the end not repaying it. In the meantime, to spite their fellow Africans, they build and buy property away from Africa for refuge purposes. The white man agrees to sell these properties to these killer despots, because he is interested in the confused, battered, black beings.

The black man never saw the beckoning horizon. He was busy looking around him for a new enemy. He looked around him for an escape to attain glory. He forever told whoever cared to listen how he defeated the white man, how the triumphed over the west and now how Africa must wake up. But has Africa risen to be giant? Has she risen to equal the west, to conquer the world? Does she plough her fields, water her seeds, hold her own basket and have good harvest? No, Africa is the world’s basket case.

The white man left to concentrate and to look after his own affairs in the West, but he finds himself between rock and hard place. He was chased away from Africa, and was called a colonialist. But now he is called back to provide aid. He is not only called back for help and to settle differences between warring factions and tribes, he is also called

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back to provide arms for dissidents and rebels. And, in the process, behave and assume duties of faster parent. As is his wont he continues to sow distrust by taking sides. He continues confuse the poor black whose vision is blinded by a penny and his soul sold to a willing buyer.

All the while when this is happening, the black man does not waste time to tell anyone how the white man messed up Africa before independence and before freedom. He has countless examples of how the colonialists raped African before that and how he, the black man, is being hampered by the interference of the whites to step out of the shadows of poverty and famine. When the leaders of Africa compare notes as to what the Portuguese did to Africa, the English, the Dutch, the Spanish, the French, and all the others, they extol the methods that they employed to bring the white man down. In the end they promise one another that Africa has potential and that they will make it rise and shine for the world to take note and applaud. That promise is enshrined in the minutes of the meeting held in their first gathering to unite Africa. That promises still in the minutes of the last meeting held recently by the new leaders using a new name adopted the West.

Today still, Mr Obama, the hawks and vultures hover and circle high above Africa, looking for the latest casualties that have fallen by the way side after being maimed, raped and wounded by her own leaders. Mr Obama, this is not how Africa was intended to be, a prey for the world. This was not her intended destiny.

Now that you are on the threshold to lead a rich, industrialized nation, a nation that is not ready to test you but is eager to rule with you, we send an urgent, tear-filled and blood- stained emissary, “please show us the way beyond freedom. Don’t forget Africa, pray to the Lord God to bless her, to guard her children, to guide her leaders and to give her peace. And, above all, to allow you to lead her beyond being just a black race, but efficient human beings.”

All of them, these leaders, including, Robert Mugabe, must sign this plea and wait for your guidance.

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