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South African history is grossly incomplete

In this post, I will try my best to restrain myself. Frequent visitors of this blog will understand and see where these restrains are sett and properly fastened...

God is relatable... like really relatable...

Molo people ! Now, how I wish and want you to both read and understand the below. This article will try its best to give my own personal understanding of God, a...

African Proverbs 4.0

The thing about African proverbs is their strong ties to the earth and its animals, they give an almost endless stream of life lessons and learning - often obse...

Bantu Words in the New Testament

After a short introduction, comes a list of a few of the surviving words from the New Testament. These words where attempted to be translated at some point in t...

Sabbath - fast or feast?

Another Sabbath day of rest and peace. But first and foremost, a day spent in silence with little or no talk. And, I would argue, a moderate intake of food. You...

Seneca & Jerusalem

"The man who considers his generation alone is born for few. Many thousands of years and people will come after him. Look to these. If virtue brings fame, our r...

Name of God in Sotho

Currently writing to you from the beautiful rural-areas of Mpumalanga, The Land where the Sun Rises, in Zulu). Fittingly then, we will in this here post be disc...

Sabbath Origins

Another week has passed and as the weather begins to die down, with the winds staying at an overall low level all day. The Sabbath is near. Its almost like the ...

Al-Kuhl & Tabacc

So, who are these two entities? Alcohol and Tobacco, yes they are indeed spirits, which when your body gets used to will come to depend and rely on, on a regula...

The World`s oldest Drawing

A 73,000-year-old (I know very specific hey :) line design, according to experts, could have had special meaning for its makers. Whatever that phrasing means, a...

The Xhosa Calendar

I must admit, this has been hard to grasp. But this is the truth nonetheless. Romans and Greeks started calculating time after the equinoxes, but the Ancient Af...

the religion of the Amazulu

As the backbone of this post, I did frequent a book written by a certain Pastor Henry Callaway (1817-90), author of The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868). ...

African Proverbs 3.0

As the Sabbath comes to an end, with the new moon looming for tomorrow introducing another month - here comes yet another big gulp of African proverbs. Some are...

Thoughts on Dry Fasting

What is it? Well its a way off fasting, known throughout the ages as it puts you into contact with your body, spirits, God and in relating to other people. Have...

the Kingdom within you

One of my favourite verses of the Bible is Luke 17,21, in the New Testament that is. This verse though, or rather this place, is an actual place inside the huma...

Poem.

Forces of evil, forces of good, only God remains the same, Glorious He cannot be fully understood. In this world nor in the next, His depth is beyond all He is ...

African Proverbs 2.0

When roaming the internet for ancient African proverbs, I came across these, produced by (mostly) Africans now situated in various parts of the world, but off c...

As White as Snow?

Another popular expression, yep this one too is from the good book. The thing is, if you study a natural phenomenon such as snow. To know what snow is and feels...

Fasting & Praying

Lately, I have started fasting, again. I used to fast every Sabbath, once I was under the belief that the seventh day was on a Saturday. I did it for several re...

Amen or Selah?

Now, you might say - its only words, right...? Come on, you know things dont work like that ! Actually both of the above - AMEN and SELAH - are extremely well k...