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• theme • venue • calendar • backstage • participants • contact details Ansisters Event August 2005 Detail from the performance 'Patterns Outside My Head' by Janine Lewis, Rantebeng Makapan and Bonisile Nxumalo. As part of the FACE Ansisters 2005 event, Constitution Hill, Johannesburg. Copyright © FACE 2005. All rights reserved. studio : participants : Busi KaMalaza Mngoma • zulu customs
POEMS • Umendo
• Nansi Inkondlo Yakho
• Prayer for my Daughter
• Hate No-One
BUSI MNGOMA CONTACT
ZULU CUSTOMS Intandane enhle umakhothwa unina:
Realisation and recognition of female nurturing power. It can be said that the greatest king of Amazulu was a mama’s boy - uShaka was greatly influenced by his mother. One of the great shapers of Zulu history was uMkabayi, who was also a warrior princess with her own regiment.
If you educate a man, you are educating an individual, but if you educate a woman you are educating a nation. If you empower a woman, you are empowering the nation
Recognition of mothers.
okaMalaza, umaZulu, umaShongwe this is how a married woman would be addressed in a Zulu culture.
I am kaMalaza, this is how my husband, my in laws and their neighbours would address me in a Zulu manner, Malaza is my maiden name. My mother is maShongwe, my brothers wife is maZulu, these are their maiden names, they are both Mrs Malazas. I am Mrs Mngoma but we will never lose our maiden names because this is how we will usually be addressed. This is a recognition of an equal status of women/sisters to the society. It is a recognition of our elders and ancestors. This has been practiced by our elders throughout history, it is respect .
The statement is the realization of equal contribution of two parties, it can be a man/woman relationship. Two people working together equally sharing have a better chance of success.
Injobo enhle ithungelwa ebandla:
If there is something that needs to be done or something needs to be made we all need to work on it or towards it to make it the best it can be.
The face project has seen the need for mass participation, this opportunity is exciting and gives great hope for the future because we can be all part of it. Amageja Alingene abalimi: To the ansisters ngithi hhayi amageja aselingene abalimi , lethwese ihlobo, nansi insimu , bhukulani makhosikazi kushonwe khona sifikile isikhathi. It translates, the ploughs are ready, the field is set, and spring has arrived – let us to work.
Posted 02 July 2005, www.face.org.za, author: Busi Mngoma. Izinkondlo (Poems) Umendo
by Busi KaMalaza Mngoma
Bathi kazi mntanami Uyokwendelaphi No?
Bathi ezakwami ziyawuthola Umendo
Zithi Uze uziphathe kahle emendweni ntombazane
Athi wentombazane konje wendela kwabani no?
Ukudonsa indlebe umama
Uthi ulibambe mntanami ibhodwe lasemzini
Ulibambe lishisa, lize lipholele ezandleni zakho ntombazane
Uthi kuyobe bayiphethe kahle intombi yakwami emendweni
Bathi intombi kabani yawuthumela ingundane
Bathi akabuye ekhaya udadewethu uma ehlupheka emendweni
Zithi kazi mina ngiyowuthola nini na?
Zithi awungiyeke wena ngalowo mabuya emendweni.
Abangaphakathi bafuna ukuphuma kulembiza eshisayo
Abangaphandle bathi nami ngifuna ukungena kulembiza
Kuthiwa ungena ngebhokisi
Uyoze uphume ngebhokisi
Kuthiwa Yilahle leli
Ulibamba lishisa Ubeliqhawe emaqhaweni
Kuthiwa Kwakuhle kwethu!
Wangena umakoti ekhaya!
Umendo-ke lowo, Wentombi. top Prayer for my daughter
Intelligency to excel in your chosen field
Wisdom to take the right decisions
Strength to fight the evil
Beauty to spread into this world
I wish for you kindness
To help the less privileged
I wish for you Power to influence good deeds to your peers
Happiness within for you will not seek it in wrong places.
Contentment within for you will not fill your heart with wrong desires
You will not wish to be thinner than you are, to be prettier than you are
To be richer than you are, For your name is Cebile, meaning you are wealthy and I am wealthy We are filled with wealth, for it is not measured in monetary value
But the value of wonderful life.
And rich within my soul
Our soul, amen
Nansi Inkondlo Yakho
Nansi inkondlo yakho, shwele ngangisemncane
Ngabe ngayiloba ngalelohora , ngalolosuku, Ngalowonyaka
Lala kahle Malaza, naboNkosi Ncamane Mabulunga amahle
Phondo olubovu Masobondontuza
Lala ngokuthula, wayilwa indima yakho
ayikho into obungayenza, kulungile, it is okay, hamba
Shwele Ngangisemncane, Kwakumnyama emehlweni, kubuthuntu engqondweni
Kubuhlungu, ithemba liphelile enhliziyweni
Kuthe nje cwaka, kuphelile.
Isinyama phela! Yifu elimnyama.
Kodwa manje kuyangikhanyela
Isukile inkungu, sengimdala, sengiyakwazi ukulala ngenxeba
Washiya umbhalo othi “above very dark cloud there is a sunshine”
Yebo ngiyavuma, ukukhanya ngikufumene.
Yingakho ngibhala lombhalo
Yingakho ngithi hamba kahle Qhawe, Ndoda emadodeni
Wayibeka induku ebandla, abakwaziyo bangavuma.
Usuyosibhekela ngale, kwelezinyanya, kwelabaphansi, izithuli, izithutha.
Ngithi ngiyavuma sonke siyeza uma isikhathi sesifikile.
Cha, lala Malaza
Shwele baba wami angizange ngikulobele, ngangisemncane
Kodwa ngithi kulungile, it is okay
Ngithi kuwe ntombi kaShongwe
Duduzeka mntimande, mbambolunye
Kwase kufike isikhathi
Pho, sasiyobe sesenze njani, yikho ukulala phezu kwalo inxeba lize liphole
Uthi uSomandla yena unguyise wezintandane, uyidonda yabafelokazi.
Sithi Isizulu Intandane enhle umakhothwa ngunina.
Shwele mama wami angizange ngikulobele , ngangisemncane.
Kodwa ngithi kulungile, It is okay.
Matric dance, What matric dance?
1992, my matric year
I have just learnt, I have just realised
There was supposed to be a matric dance. Matric ball, matric dance, what matric dance?
If I can rewind back to 1992.
I would ask him for a dance, sure he would ask me first.
That was my chance to dance with him
My chance to satisfy my youthful desires
Uyabuza ufarmgirl, uyabuza ufarmjulia
Was that a year for me? Was that a year for us.
When there is so much to worry about
All a poor small town girl could have thought about is
I have made it to my matric year
Will my name appear?, will I have the taxi money to get to town To buy Ilanga, and will I have guts to search for my name
I guess I have no choice, lifikile elamanqamu.
All I worry about is to pull through,
Is to defeat all the madness of that time.
There is just so much to worry about for a 17 year old matric girl.
Std’s, teenage pregnancies, back street abortions, Poverty, Poverty, Poverty!
Oh, Lord please save me from this cruelty
Do not lead me into temptation, keep me away from evil.
From my matric classroom let me walk straight to my mother’s house
Ngiyocasha, to hide away from this madness.
Matric dance , what matric dance
My school does not have a library, nor laboratory, nor textbooks, nor maths teacher
tell me how, how can a 17 year old girl from these conditions
write her national matric paper on HG for her name to be called on the pass list.
How can then she begins to worry about what dress to wear on a matric dance!
If I can start again, If I can refresh
Firstly I will ask for a Maths Teacher.
Secondly, a Text book
Thirdly, a Science laboratory and a Library (physics & history are part of a syllabus after all)
And then Lastly, I guess most importantly I will then ask for a DANCE, MATRIC DANCE. top
Just hate No-One by Busi KaMalaza Mngoma
They say sticks and stones can destroy our body
but words can destroy our soul I say sticks and stones Can destroy our body
But hate can destroy our soul
Hatred dwells within
It destroys our fragile soul
Just hate no-one
For with hate, the healing might take longer.
When it seems like the universe is against you
For it might be the day that the universe has
Made to bless you.
It might be the day that your wishes will be fulfilled.
When it seems like the whole world is opposite your direction
You will never know, someone out there might be in a good mood
Someone out there might just give you a Chance.
When all the illnesses attack your precious body
Your body will heal
When someone breaks your heart into small tiny pieces
For your heart will heal and go on.
When you feel used, abused, violated, robbed
Discriminated, deceived, disrespected, dehumanised
For hatred is not the revenge Revenge will make it even but not heal
But love shall conquer it all.
For with love the Universe
Will not ignore your pain
For with love your Angels
Will not resist you shining through your pain.
For with love your Ancestors
Will be drawn closer to your presence
To embrace you, to be with you in your recovery bed
For it is not worth your precious soul
It will give wings
And you will fly like an eagle
And reach the highest places
Where there is no room for the evil souls. Posted 02 July 2005, www.face.org.za, author: Busi Mngoma.