THE ZAMBIAN RULING TO LEGALISE MARIJUANA FOR INDUSTRIAL AND MEDICINAL USE: THE BROADER PICTURE

By Namakando Nalikando-Sinyama

This long overdue decision has been received by many Revolutionary minds as one that ought to have been made a long time ago. It is therefore, for this very reason that, some of us are not really overly frenzied about it because we have always known an Immutable Universal Law that,"You can not Fight Nature and expect to Win." What has just happened here now,ha actually been happening in many other progressive countries for some time now and comes as no surprise at  all  but is a natural progression of events and one that delayed Humanity from benefitting from God's bountiful supply of Natural Plants with multiple Human uses. Without having to say too much on the subject, especially seeing that enough has been said already, it is almost making my head ache from reading it all. I will not stoop so low as to even address or drag in the usually narrow and  naive Blinded Religious view that it is unchristian. I have had just about enough of chaps imposing their social mores on the Globe on all matters, it is even making me nauseous, Pheew!!! 

If they want to protest it ,they might as well direct their protestations at God who makes it(The Plant) grow so lushly and makes it available to one and all and lends itself for use in various applications.

We all seem to understand and appreciate the Industrial Applications  of Weed or Marijuana or the byproducts of any of its cultivars but it is the medicinal use that may need some bit of light shed on it. I have however, noticed that  there is also a great deal of confusion and misinformation as to what has really been Legalised in Zambia. Simply put ,it is Marijuana Growing for Industrial and Medicinal Use by people or Companies who have a Permit or License which has rather shockingly, been pegged at a mind numbing Quarter of a Million US Dollars($USD250,000.00)! Some chaps,for some strange reason want to muddy the waters and have dragged in issues of Hemp which has not been mentioned specifically in this Legalisation  ruling Declaration since it is only but one of the many products or uses that exists or is extracted from this multipurpose Plant. While appreciating the views of those that have always hated the plant for usually unsound reasons, like their abhorrence of the RASTA Community due to their perceived  nonconformist or 'Rebellious' Nature against Authority but that we, in the know, simply Call Consciousness and their  supposedly unkempt appearance, this Legalisation move has, in a way, actually totally vindicated many such people  that have always seen this Plant as having some immense Social Economic  potential. The International convention on narcotics stipulates that a country growing marijuana should only export 25% of its total production. So, what happens to the 75%? Do we have capacity as a country to consume this 75%?

Globally, the RASTA Farian Movement has been a foremost proponent for this Policy move hence do not be surprised if they burn the incense to commemorate this as a Spiritual Victory for HIM to have finally opened their Third Eyes to have the good sense and courage to finally do the right thing. The ever Wise RASTAs, who are the remaining vestiges of Global Wisdom and Custodians or Protectors of Mother Earth that have long since used it and campaigned for its eventual Universal legalisation in Song and Dance  before the so-called conventional societies wizened up or awoke. In Zambia, we saw the emergence of The Green Party, a Political Party formed under the very genuinely  able Leadership of the ever analytical Revolutionary, my Elder Brother Mr. Peter Chazya Sinkamba to specifically champion issues of Environmental Protection with Green Gold( Marijuana) as one of the/main products it seriously feels needed to be given due attention because of its potential to economically contribute to the fiscus.

MEDICINAL USE

This ,for me, is wherein lies the Catch 22 scenario of sorts. The enforcement of this ruling, I find to be replete with a Multiplicity of Challenges which I will attempt to break down. From the outset, you will no doubt agree that, there are a number of questions that now beg to be critically addressed without prejudice.
Are they now going to be Customising Illnesses for this Plant or Drug to Cure? Human beings suffer from different Health conditions and no one has the Right to dictate which Drug to use to remedy them. Unlike your regular Conventional Medicines,where you depend on a medical Doctor to prescribe specific  cocktails of Drugs, Marijuana is technically a Plant or  Herb which possesses an inherent chemical substance THC( Tetra HydroCannabinol) with Psychotropic Properties and has medically been proven to offer relief for a number of conditions. This Plant has been around for Centuries and if someone tells you that ,from their own experience,the health Complication or condition they feel or have been battling for years  requires that they ingest Marijuana either by eating the leaves or Smoking it and they always feel better when they do this ,who is to deny it to them? Would the Doctor's Hippocratic Oath allow such people to be denied access to this Plant ? If someone was to be found peacefully sprawled away on the lawn  in sheer abandon in a Public Park puffing away on a mega busting spliff because they have been battling this excruciatingly painful itch under their left ingrowing Toe nail and they told you that a few long puffs of freshly ground dried leaves of this Naturally growing  Plant without any artificial chemical additives,rolled up in a rizzla soothes their Pain without taking your regular pain killers ,would you arrest them in light of this Ruling? What if  they told you they have been surviving on it or doing this for years, would you arrest them for 10 to 15 years and take away their medicine  and impose an alternative Hospital remedy on them which they may not even afford?

The would be patient may have always known this fact and thus does not require any Prescription from anyone to tell them what to take  or the  quantity of it to ingest. I believe, this use technically qualifies as medicinal , albeit, self medication in pretty much the same way people easily get Panadol, an analgesic for their pounding headaches,which they make readily available  in their Homes. It defeats logic and common sense to go to a clinic when you know that Weed will have the same effect as the panadol they sell. Common sense will also tell you that ,in order to have such quick remedies readily available, people might consider growing a plant or two in their backyard. Will this kind of use,since it is medicinal as well and thus now Legal, equally require a $250,000.00 License?Would it be in order to arrest them for 10 Years simply because they have been found in possession of a quantity more than the set threshold of what is prescribed as being  for personal use  and consequently  deemed Trafficking? With this Growing License, will the Drug and Psychotropic Substances Trafficking Act or Clause now be repealed or modified to include or exclude those growing it under License?

It shall not make sense for the medical fraternity to suddenly become authoritative and impose a List of Illnesses or conditions for which they alone can prescribe a Monitored and controlled dose or Medication with Sensimilla. Who feels it, knows it and if people do not want to incur huge medical Bills for some conditions, will they be Arrested for wanting to cure themselves cost effectively or cheaply with this now Legal Plant when grown for medicinal use? Who will be dictating what is Medicinal and what is Recreational? While taking it for medicinal purposes, are they somehow, going to magically inhibit it from having its accompanying Psychotropic side effects or the patient will have the good fortune of ,' Having the cake and eating it by enjoying both the plant's Curative and Recreational  High inducing properties? How sure are they that people will not now be feigning illness to have a spliff of their long known 'Cure' for their long known 'malady'?This is how Herbs like Marijuana and others have helped some people while others take them for the High it induces as it calms them down and to a large extent helps them cope with Life's anxieties and the never ending pressures,does this not Qualify as medicinal? Who is to say?

Those of us who have had the good fortune of growing up in the village know that whenever we got sick,Our very Dear Grandmothers simply got hold of their hoes and headed into the nearby Bushes to either dig some Roots or harvest some leaves to come and Pound for us to be steamed in or ingest and, Lo and  behold we got better. This is how The Great Spirit through its infinite wisdom and divine providence kept us alive to this day. Now you should make his Natural Herbs he so lovingly made available for Our use illegal because you want to promote the Profit motive by the capitalistic money hogs. We did not have to enrich Big Pharmaceutical Companies by buying their Drugs which eventually become poisons to Our bodies with their continued overuse. For the record,this is one of the very reasons the Legalisation of Marijuana has been fought against for so many years because of the relief it offers for so many human health conditions that require their expensive Drugs. It has been deemed as an existential threat to their Business Profits and very continued operational existence. The other headache they have is how they cannot patent it since God somehow makes it grow so Naturally without the need for their expensive inorganic Fertilizers or Insecticides and it is accessible to all even the very poor communities. They do not see how they will make their Billions from it as it is not likely to be made a prescription 'plant' anytime soon. The wealthy Corporations involved in the manufacture of these drug poisons are non too pleased with the  current wave of Global Consciousness  and Awakening towards its blanket Legalisation.

 The Legal fraternity may need  to equally  brace itself to be inundated with technical legal precedences after this Ruling from handling cases of people who will be arrested for using Marijuana for medicinal purposes. To expect or demand a $250,000.00 Growing License for a Home remedy of an Innocent shrub growing in your backyard is ludicrous and illogical.

All in all, I believe this is the picture that the policy makers needed to have exhaustively brainstormed on and made abundantly clear to the general public. They should have had the interests of The Poor Majority in mind when they Legalised this Plant and included them in scheme of things like the Value Chain to ensure their active participation in the economic space and not to suddenly turn around by still continuing to issue threats of arbitrary arrests from the use and possession of what you have already Legalised. A hallmark of progressive societies lies in their ability to evolve and embrace new ways of looking at issues and not just copying and  pasting things or blindly complying with your Donors who were funding your Drug Enforcement campaigns but have themselves since turned around to think more progressively to Legalise that which you still persecute your own  people for using while they make quantum leaps in Research and Development of medicines and Industrial by products or materials from this plant.

FOOD RESERVE AGENCY, WHICH FOOD? ENTER: MARIJUANA RESERVE AGENCY(MRA)

By Namakando Nalikando-Sinyama

 I have always argued against the currently existing name for FRA for a more correct rendering of this State entity responsible for ensuring the protection National Food situation which is rather erroneously called Food Reserve Agency when its operations point to it being better known simply as  Maize Reserve Agency. Look, let us face it, in as much as they might want to claim they are equally involved in the  buying of Cassava, Millet or Rice and what not, that scale, if at all it even exists, is insignificant. FRA is predominantly, sadly only concerned with the Buying of Maize cheaply from Poor Farmers who Grow it expensively, and are stopped or barred from Exporting it to neighbouring Countries at a higher profit because this would substantially empower  them,which , as it happens,is not really the intention of the powers that be as this will cause  too many farmers to be empowered by having enough money to take their children to school. This, as it happens, is not the outcome they envisage or look forward to with relish. They would rather be the ones to possess the Monopoly for exporting the  Maize they did not grow and not openly account for the proceeds from these exports.

Imagine how much sensible it would be if FOOD Reserve Agency actually meant what it is supposed to mean. That is,them Expanding their scope by being actively involved in the production of everything we call Food in this country and depend on as a Nation. Fish, All Grain Crops and not just Maize, but including Vegetables crops, Livestock etc These are the things termed Food which we live on and FRA should be interested in their maximized production. This entity should have been empowered to oversee the production of all these items from the field to the Plate. Even the Maize that they Profit from, is it not shameful how they do not even care how much suffering the Poor Farmers go through to grow this Crop but simply want to buy it off them at a seriously disproportionate and laughably lower price than the actual Cost of production. They should have been involved in the Seed, Fertilizer and Crop Pesticide and Extension service Supply Chain. Although,the down side to this picture is perhaps that it would inevitably make the price they buy the Maize from the Farmer even way cheaper thus making its production by the farmers become even more meaningless.

The envisaged establishment of MRA or its variant WRA( Weed Reserve Agency) is for the active actual empowerment of the Locally existing Farmers and the many folks who will eventually be inspired to take up farming as a viable industry given the recent Revolutionary Policy shift to Legalise the Growing of Marijuana for Industrial and Medicinal purposes. The suggestion here is to have who ever is interested to get involved in the growing of this Cash Crop do so by making the License affordable and MRA be the up takers from the Citizens and then MRA guards it and exports it to which ever Country that will use it for whatever purposes Industrial,medicinal or Recreational and then the realised Foreign Exchange fed back into the National Coffers.

 For once ,let us be serious as a Nation,no one can Smoke a whole field of weed! To prevent a scenario of  having a High or heavily stoned citizenry, make the price for buying off the crop good enough and people would rather make money to spend on other things than get High on their own Supply, en masse!  This would ultimately cause a Nation to be full of Citizens with an extremely elevated Consciousness and  this might be deemed too threatening to the overall National 'Security' as the powers that be would rather continue with the current scenario of having a heavily sedated,malleable and pliable and Docile citizenry who see everything as A OK and Normal without ever mustering the courage to challenge the Status Quo for the betterment of Country. This,you see, is another subtle reason why Marijuana had been contained world wide as it has been feared that the self Awareness and assertiveness levels  it induces would be potentially disruptive to what they consider Social Order. It is almost like the fable of that Plant in the middle of  the Biblical Garden of Eden where you were told never to 'Eat' from as your Eyes would surely open! An epiphany has just hit me, what if ,it was not really an Apple in the Garden but this very Plant? I know this seem like some what radical revisionist Eschatology but hey, anything is possible but then, this is a subject for another day. This Plant is way too versatile to be just an ordinary Plant.

The direct involve of a Government entity in this manner will ensure that the revenue generated stays in the Country to develop it. You cannot seriously allow any foreign Entity, who are the only ones that will afford your exorbitant Growing Licenses to use your Country to grow this cash crop and cause Capital flight after they make their profits from your land to go and invest it in their countries. Or this aspect did not occur to anyone? Make the License affordable and Let the Citizens create Cooperatives to grow this crop at expanded levels of production and sell it to MRA. This model is laughably simple, it is actually almost shocking why it was not considered.

The question that begs an answer is, how will the National Maize Security be impacted with the advent of a new kid on the Block, Marijuana? How would government inspire people to still think it is worthwhile to grow Maize when it is a no Brainer that  Weed will give them more money? Which farmer in their right will continue expensively growing maize on a commercial  and for what? What we must realise though is that families will be surrounding mountain of Weed in the evening to live on, that would be illegal? What if it is their family medicine? There will still be need to have maize for Livestock Feed..... Why would farmers still continue on the Maize path though, what will be their motivation? If or when farmers ditch Maize as a crop the impact  on other sectors will be severe and the Nation can only suffer adversely.

 Whatever direction we choose to head in as a Country, one thing is for sure that ,I hope the Policy Makers realised that this Policy directive is a radical Paradigm shift and Agriculture as an industry has literally turned on its head and we can not carry on as business as usual. This Plant,Marijuana that is,is why too serious a Cash crop to allow it to be embroiled in your mediocrity of Maize Production and Marketing. We need to engage Think Tanks to come up with workable Value Chain Models so that we can maximally profit from it and not allow allow it to degenerate into the FRA Debacle or circus. By the way, when I say WE should benefit I mean, including or and especially the ordinary Citizens!

THE APPOINTMENT OF THE NEW SPECIAL PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON POLITICAL AFFAIRS MR. CHRIS ZUMANI ZIMBA.

By Namakando Nalikando-Sinyama

There has been a lot of raving reviews and sentiments aired to Congratulate the New Office Holder and the Appointing Authority for what a number of people feel has been a long overdue bold decision to have taken. Some people have gone as far as saying the predecessor should not be paid his December salary because he spent most his free time beating up people instead of working,which is of course silly right? This is pretty hilarious if you asked me but it is really not in anyone's place to call for that. On the other hand ,there are others who cannot completely come to grips with what has happened and feel it is too good to be true but still want to make sure it has really happened. They have gone further to enquire about  KZ's actual fate as they see him to be too sensitive to be simply thrown out in the cold like that. They claim CIA 1 is still a big enough fish  by any measure as he knows way too much to be easily cast by the way side like that. There also those who are extremely apprehensive and feel that KZ might be whisked away into the Shadows to serve in some secret arm to still further his craft and manifest as a Political Ventriloquist and perfect the art of double speak and make a number of Public statements with tongue in cheek. There are some that fear he is still a huge indispensable asset in the field that he could simply be redeployed to handle the coming Big One in the year of the proverbial Perfect Vision plus One 2016 style with even heightened vigour and aggression, for make no mistake, it will truly be a make or Break event.The recently released  caricatured images on canvas of him represented as a Shadow Republican President did not help his chances of still keeping his job as it represented ,to me one of the worst and last throw of the dice in his tarnishing the image of the Presidency which some quarters thought he had effectively captured. This proved to be one affront Eagle ONE could not take lightly and is actually one I thought may have bordered on Satirical Treason as it insinuated he had been 'toppled' in a sense. Then came the litany  ear splitting, hardcore X-Rated Kopala alphabetical obscenities or rantings of unprintable epithets amidst groans that almost made my ears bleed from a gentleman calling himself Joe Coloured as he received a thorough pummeling from supposed KZ goons.

 Even as I write this,  I very well know that these are not people to mess around with as you can easily be 'Cleaned Up' by them at their slightest infuriation with anything you do or say about them that they find not too pleasing. I will be careful in walking this tight rope so as not to inadvertently step on any of their toes too firmly. It will perhaps shock you to note that, there are even those who already feel they will miss the endless scandals from the Plot 1 Big wig as they do not expect any such drama and juicy scandal coming from that direction anytime soon. This because it has dawned in me that Zedians are literally sustained on Political and social drama.  There some who even needed to first enquire whether KZ would be at Chita lodge in Kafue before they could attend any weekend social functions there as they feared for their safety while others may have actually   become genuine fans of the 'occassional' goings on there when he is around and thus have lamented his ejection from public office as he ironically,may have  actually contributed to the patronage to that establishment as there were people who looked forward to setting their eyes on him due the clout his exuded  like that of a Rock star. This was the KZ Effect on business volumes to that place for which they were not even paying him. There is even some extremely hilarious memes we are now being treated to online that are comically suggesting that KZ's house has officially been added on the Load Shedding schedule after his dismissal. All crazy funny stuff if you asked me.

 Notwithstanding,the obviously brilliant résumé that Mr. Zumani Zimba has managed to garner under his belt, it is important that even before all the dust finally settles on this turn of events, we put things into some perspective here. A number of youths feel glad that one of their cohorts has been given a chance to serve in such a dignified high profile job and hope it is a start of more such appointments to truly deserving and patriotic Youths. There is the majority that are now urging The President to initiate a total purge of his Cabinet and rid it off some named office holders who people feel have souled his name and will prove to be excess luggage going into the coming big one thus should be shed off in earnest. They derive confidence in suggesting this from the fact that the sacking of KZ came as a result of increasing public pressure ad outcry. Little do they realise though that,in the fullness of time ,though it might take long, The President acts on his own clock and he cannot be arm twisted or rushed into making a decision over anyone or anything.

EFFECT ON THE APPOINTING AUTHORITY

We know not exactly to what extent they may have foreseen the positive effect this move has had on the Presidency as an office which has finally been seen as having the unction of appointing such an unblemished and raw individual and ejecting one deemed so vile. What we all need to realise though is that, in Life No one is ever completely good and we are all never Completely Evil either.
True to this immutable universal Law, we have already started seeing the unearthing of some quite candid Online seemingly anti-Establishment Political views that Mr. Zimba has shared over the years which have made some of us even wonder whether he was fully vetted before he was appointed to that job. Be rest assured though, that very little ever  escapes 'The All Seeing Eye and All Hearing Ear ' of The Presidency hence I doubt they never knew what opinions or views that man holds but His Excellency still went ahead and appointed him. Here is what this action clearly immediately says about him,The President that is,He has opted to take the  Moral Higher ground and ignored everything that may have been discovered when Mr.Zimba's Personal File was brought up for review and opted to see his potential to serve The Nation. The President has displayed the highest level of Political maturity by reaching out across the aisle of Political Divide of divergent views and brought I some one who may not always agree with his decisions and governance style. What value would have been in having a vassal or Yesman by his side? It also shows that, as the Head of State, he is extremely tolerant and allows or promotes Freedom of expression and he is not vindictive and is largely accommodative of divergent views.

The other important  Lesson that we should learn from this incident is that, as people who aspire to someday hold or occupy positions of authority and influence in Life, we seriously need to be more mindful about  what we carelessly say online as it might come round to haunt us one day when it is dug up and may spoil our chances of Connecting with our destiny through facilitated Social, Corporate or Political mobility. This should however,not be the case in a perfectly Democratic environment where Freedom of Speech  is not only Allowed but Constitutionally Protected.

 With this expression of magnanimity,The President  has certainly done his approval ratings a world of good . We are yet to see  though whether this is as a direct result of KZ having been truly that bad a person or Mr. Zimba being such a blue eyed intellectual marvel that he has been celebrated or made out to be. We still need to be alive to the fact that He still needs to be Baptised by Fire or prove himself by experiencing,handling and being thrasted into the highly Volatile and and combative Political Landscape replete with Real life Drama that requires him to be thinking on his head and not dealing with virtual scenarios in the lecture theatres of academia.

THE EXTREMELY CURIOUS ZAMBIAN BIPOLAR 'HOLY' NATURE.

 By Namakando Nalikando-Sinyama

Granted, that I may not be Herr Sigmund Freud's Great Great grandson or a psychoanalytical expert to arrive at the above diagnosis but all the evidence points to it. It should also be appreciated that it is hardly in my place to comment on how you conduct your Business but Since this matter has been escalated all the way into the Bedroom, may be it is about time that things are put into a little more gripping Contextual  perspective just to sort of highlight the sheer absurdity of it all. Do people realise that, according to the 'Holy' Laws of  Zambian Nature, a Hand Job is also a transgression,Yes,just as touching oneself to achieve the Big 'O'( Onan Style) either as a Stress relief strategy or merely a pass time activity to prevent the affliction of some cheap, now since discontinued Accounting Courses(NutAche) or Blue Balls or Drilling for Oil,(  because at that particular moment, one has not a willing consensual participant in the exercise. Do you actually realise that even the good old Fellatio and Cunnilingus of and with your partner is equally an act deemed  against the 'Holy' Laws of Zambian Nature and thus effectively punishable by Law? This could well then, technically  mean that, even the Oriental  Aphorisms in Love that Karma Sutra is could well be illegal since the different modes of sensual expression of Love between partners deemed untraditional may be frowned upon as unnatural or Anti-Zambian as only the Biblically ordained Missionary posture during sessions of erotica is what is acceptable as Kosher.  You might want to brace yourselves for a possible Law empowering a yet to be created Conjugal Police. Knock,Knock!!! It is the C.P, What style is that?  By order of so and so,tonight you are hereby reminded of the Position you must assume as decreed by the Powers that be. You may find this a rather cynical and exaggerated scenario and one that misses the point. But,what exactly then is the Point,if there be any at all? That all the other vices are alright and should be condoned or not spoken against openly but a whole nation can descend on other people's method of Sinning when yours is fine and kept secret and never criminalised? Why does not Higher Level  Corruption of Theft of Public Resources become Non Bailable and Punishable by Firing squad? This would make more sense in my Books. As regards this much ado about nothing really, concerning which portal or orifice is used to attain sensual gratification between partners whether Linear or nonlinear, just speaks to people's shameful pettiness and total lack of priorities on matters of greater import.  This is why some of us have since concluded it to be nothing more than a laughable distraction that has been employed just  as it is clearly explained in the CIA Book of Dirty Tricks pretty much the same way that Sports events have been and are still being used to sway the Citizen's  attention from Critical National issues that deserve your Intellectual energy and input when there is too much pressure bearing down on a regime. It is little wonder we are in the mess we in because of a total lack of  serious Critical thinking and interrogation on important things in Life. While you burn your Midnight Oil and Candles on both ends over what other people's Choices of a Sexual partner are, Constitutional Amendment  Bill No. 10 is quietly being passed right under your gaze. Forest 27 has been carved up, Huge monies for Electric power imports you are not going to receive or enjoy have allegedly been paid out, NRC Registration exercise is underway in specifically chosen areas, Foreign Loans have been contracted without Parliamentary approval or you knowing where the Money went or monitoring its use,other people are not allowed to gather for flimsy and made up reasons, People are being Hacked and their Brains are oozing out from their skulls(Do parson my gory depiction of Sean Tembo's recent attack it is deliberate) but you are quiet etc You are indeed a Truly special Breed of Humans,this I can give you!

This is also being used as gimmick to try as much as possible gain support from the evangelical Lobby and Radical Hypocritical money Loving Christian Fundamentalists who, will rather naïvely, not see this for what it is. The School of Applied Reason and Logic will tell you that it makes no sense to use your Religious Text or scriptures to reason with other people from other Religions or who, for some reason or the other, may not even subscribe to them(Your Teachings or a scriptures) or any Deity at all. How is it even Democratic to Decree and Dictate a Religion for all the people and use those Teachings in that Religion to hinge your Judgment of everyone including those that do not believe them or regard them as sacrosanct teachings to live by? This is a hallmark of autocratic,Despotic and  tyrannical  dispensation at its worst.

OF LEVELS AND PISCES

OF LEVELS  AND PISCES : Enter GENERAL KANENE.

                 By Namakando Nalikando-Sinyama

Granted that,although you would never ordinarily catch me dead lending an ear to his particular Music genre , I however,  find General Kanene's latest artistic offering in Big Fish or 'Nsomba Ikulu' , a spot on piece of Social Commentary punctuated with quite Witty  and well thought out social intercourse anecdotal renderings. He has carefully Remade or remastered the Nigerian P Square's 2019 hit song 'Nobody Ugly' and  hijacked the beat to make it his own and perhaps, more importantly, embued it with irrefutably  captivating relevance as regards the goings on in the Zambian social calender circles. The usually not so obvious Class distinction between patrons of public Mingling places is highlighted in this Song. There is a clique of Patrons that have been outted in this song who are seen lurking in the shadows and exude a distinctive aura of genteel sophistry which he urges Women of Easy virtue to try and sniff out or pick up on if ever they were to embark on an Angling Excursion in the cover of the night and were serious about landing  Zeb Hogan's Positively 'Moster' Fish.

Kanene's artistic tenacity has come full circle and further goes to prove  that , despite his usual bland and witless deafening racket he impregnates the airwaves with, which folks want to allow to pass as music and his now only too familiar Infractions with the Law on account of his randy nature that makes him gravitate and lavish over borderline  nubile nymphets, the chap is not such a bad musician sometimes after all. This, even when he is given to persuasions of that Old man in that Book by Vladmir Nabokov, Lolita. He has effectively managed to seemingly recover from having been snabbed and thrown under the proverbial truck by his previous paymasters he used to sing for maybe due to his perceived Political Ethnic Incorrectness and through his repetitive social shenanigans which saw him get jettisoned as unrequired excess buggage and left to languish in gaol.

Lesson Learnt, "In Life ,if you are persistence at what you like doing, You eventually attain some degree of proficiency you hitherto never thought Possible." The end result of which can only sheer financial and spritual sense of abundance and fulfilment that not even Money can give you.

MY PERSONAL JOURNEY OF SELF -REDISCOVERY.

By Namakando Nalikando Sinyama



It is with a great sense of Humility and Honour that I,Namakando Nalikando Wa Sinyama III, declare that , In keeping with my Personal epic sojourn on Earth, I embark on this mission of Self-Rediscovery by assuming a highly Revolutionary and Radical Afro-Centric Quest to reconnect with my ancestral Roots and seek Out That which We as Afrikans have hitherto been missing all along, which does, to a great extent explain away Our current State of Being as The Original People of The Book who Once Ruled The Earth. This is material only for those with a long enough attention span and those that have not been afflicted and succumbed to the yet to be officially acknowledged and diagonised  medical condition i have coined Acute Bibliophobia. From my pre-puberscent years,I started off by seriously doubting whether or not we were really The Architects and Originators of the many Disciplines of Medicine,Mathematics, Astronomy , a lot of which have been credited to Us. Looking back at how We carry on today as a People, I have found it rather increasingly hard to accept that,We indeed built The Geometrically imposing architectural masterpieces that the Pyramids are. Our behaviour today as Afrikans sometimes lends credence and adds fuel to the most demeaning categorisation we are ascribed by Cold-blooded Rednecked Hardcore Racists. We successfully give them Reasons to be Racist against us sometimes by the way we run Our affairs, which makes them blatantly refuse to accept that we are their equals,if that is what ate supposed to be. This, is me finally coming to grips with their justification and perspective and in turn, quite frankly their understandable but not acceptable reasons for their Racism against us.We have  given them many Reasons to be Racist against Us by Our very conduct. Some of them though, Hate Us for merely being Who we are, Black Afrikans. Unbeknownst to Most, The Historical Hatred directed towards The Afrikan, is more Spiritual than you think and has a lot to do with Your True Identity and Heritage that certain Quarters actually attest to and which has been The World's Best Kept Secret, The True Identity of Gods People Today.The Scientific World Community has slightly emboldened me by lightening this heavy load which has , for many years weighed in on my bemusement with their Revelation from Project Lucy that Africa, has indeed been The Cradle of Civilization all along. I have since been grappling with a raging Question as to when did it All Go Wrong? Where did We miss it and lose it all and to be so unassailably overtaken by other Races in all matters of Our endeavours ? The Explanations offered by Conscious Bredrin in their Hard-Hitting Reggae lyrical pieces where they have long since sought to teach Us who we really are and what happened to Us as a people of Colour seem to sadly fall Short. It is only rather sad that many do not lend an ear to this genre of Artistic expression(Reggae), as it carries a societal tag that makes it seem socially unacceptable as its proponents are considered outcasts when they have been vessels of great Wisdom that may well prove to be our only Hope for rediscovering who we are. For instance , Robert Nesta Marley sings of The Generation Gap left by the marauding Slave Traders who captured Our able bodied ancestors who were, by extension, Our Custodians of Vast Cultural experience and a plethora of knowledge but who sadly, were uprooted and ferried to the Americas and beyond during the worst blemish on the collective Human Consciousness that the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was. We read how Our people were jettisoned over board like worthless excess cargo,resulting in the Worst Holocaust ever witnessed in living memory. This explanation though,scarcely suffices in quenching my thirst and quest of Knowing What really Went wrong with Us. The Judeo-Christian writings as well, have sought to explain away Our current Chain of Being as a People as having been due to a very Powerful Curse that was metted out on Us as The Original True Biblical Hebrew Israelites on account of Our disobedience to the Laws of Our God,YahWeh as recorded at Deutronomy 28: 1- 68. This, i have later discovered ,has only increased my levels of bemusement as 'half the story has never been told 'indeed. We need to See The Light and conquer the sometimes self-inflicted veil of ignorance bringing Darkness. The Hardcore Talmudic Racists have also latched onto Our condition by proposing or offering an alternative narrative by fanning The Hamitic Myth (Noah’s supposed ‘curse’ of Ham one of his Sons and ultimately myriads of negrescent (Blacks) after him. This story has everlastingly assigned to the African, the role of servitude as divinely cursed servants of white people. This Proselytized fake  'jewish'  Ashkenazim fabrication of the Hamitic Myth has provided the moral pretext upon which the entire slave trade grew and flourished.

I therefore, leave you with the words of One of the Greatest luminaries alive in the World today,who I humbly beseech every Afrikan ,who cares , even in the least, to understand Who They Are, Where they Are From,Where they Are Now and Why, and Perhaps, More Importantly,Where they are going and What they Must do as an imperative to successfully get there. How they will finally reposition themselves again on The Table and Comity of Nations to reclaim their past granduer and Lost Glory.
May these words serve as an Eternal guide and beacon of Hope and may they find fertile ground in your Soul and Resonate with your Divine Spirit and have meaning as they have had with Me. Selah!!!

THIS I CHOOSE

By Nthlathle Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa (1964)

O give me not the strident, Demon wail
Of penny whistle and tea-chest guitar;
Nor give me tales of those who rode the trail
Deep in the West of far America!

Oh, not for me the songs and nonsense tales
That thrill the modern rabble rout
Who, leaving far behind their tribal values
With traitor zest, ape ‘culture’ from without!

Rather than the modern crooner’s foreign voice,
Or the loud howls of modern township jive,
I shall leave far behind that mad’ning noise
And hurry home where Tribal Elders live.

There ‘neath baobabs or flat-topped munga trees
Where nestling birds with many tongues argue,
And flaming aloes bless the smiling breeze
With heady scent; and where the distant view
Of scowling mountains ‘gainst the silver sky
With dread and reverence fill the misted eye!

Where, on the gentle slopes of ancient hills there browse
The bearded goats, the sheep, the shambling cows;
And loud above his lowing wives the bull
With awful bellow, dares the distant foe!

There I shall sit before Ubabamkulu
Who shall relate to me the Tales of Yore.
There I shall kneel before the old Gegulu
And hear legends of Those-that-lived-Before.

There I shall live in spirit once again
In those great days now gone forever more;
And see again upon the timeless plain
The massed impi of so long ago.

The words of men long dead shall reach my soul
From the dark depths of all-consuming Time
Which like a muti, shall inflame my whole—
And guide my life’s canoe to shores sublime.

Clear with the soul’s time penetrating eye
I shall see great empires rise, flourish and die.
I shall see deeds of courage or of shame
Now forever carved on the Drum of Fame.

With Shaka’s legions I shall march again—
A puppet knowing neither joy nor fear;
Which trained to kill, heeds neither wounds nor pain,
And knows no other love save for its spear.

I shall feel once again the searing heat
Of love in hearts that have long ceased to pulse
And with Mukanda shall captain the fleet
Of war canoes; and storm Zima-Mbje’s walls.

Here is these stories still told by the old,
I feel the soul and heartbeat of my race
Which, I cannot in tales by strangers told—
For these, within my heart I have no place!

The tree grows well and strong, Oh children mine
That hath its roots deep in the native earth;
So honour always thy ancestral line
And traditions of thy land of birth!

100 % PASS RATE!

100% countrywide Grade Seven Pass Rate amidst massive Examination Leakages!!!😳 🤣🤣🤣🤣What should that be put down to now,able Leadership right?🙄
What are we saying here exactly? Is this outcome statistically a virtual impossibility? Not quite,if you believe that with a little more effort even Pigs can fly,it is just that ,when you are only too aware of your Population's peculiarities, it is only then that the Biometric asinine absurdity of it all becomes too apparent. Ladies and Gentlemen,there are Jokes and there are jokes. This result pushes the hilarious to extremely dizzy zenithal heights alright. Just when you thought you had heard and seen it all. This makes one completely lose faith in anything to do with numbers and counting of scores.Yes,Elections as well,especially that. What chunk or batch of results could have been artificially inflated to achieve this rare Event? What pedagogical 'miracle' can these 2018 Grade Seven Results be attributed to so that the feat can be replicated over and over again in the coming years?It would have been more rational to simply state that all Grade seven Examinations have been discontinued so that all pupils reach Grade Nine as a bare minimum so that they can be empowered with the very basics of Reading and Writing. This would then help reduce the negative impact of early marriages on the Girl child who would be supported with knowledge on Gender issues and maternal health.