The Inhabitant

29/08/2024

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04/07/2024

The Maasai (Swahili: Wamasai) are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, near the African Great Lakes region.The Maasai speak the Maa language ,a member of the Nilotic language family that is related to the Dinka, Kalenjin and Nuer languages. Except for some elders living in rural areas, most Maasai people speak the official National languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English.

04/07/2024

01/07/2024

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new government on Sunday, June 30, with the opposition receiving 12 out of 32 portfolios following tough coalition negotiations after the ruling ANC lost its outright parliamentary majority.
The DA is proud to rise to the challenge, and take our place, for the very first time, at the seat of national government where we can introduce our track record of governance excellence, zero tolerance for corruption, and pragmatic policymaking based on outcome and not intent. The mission to create an open, opportunity society for all South Africans now becomes our sole focus as we work the levers of the highest level of government in our country.

The formulation of the DA’s National Executive Member offering takes into consideration skills and expertise, qualifications and experience, and diversity, while ensuring that our parliamentary caucus retains key members to exercise oversight over all national departments. I am proud to announce the 12 Cabinet and Deputy Ministers as follows:

Cabinet Ministers:

Minister of Agriculture – John Steenhuisen
Minister of Basic Education – Siviwe Gwarube
Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure – Dean Macpherson
Minister of Home Affairs – Dr Leon Schreiber
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment – Dr Dion George
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies – Solly Malatsi

The African National Congress, which has governed the country since the advent of democracy in 1994, retained 20 out of 32 cabinet positions, including key ministries such as foreign affairs, finance, defense, justice and police.

01/07/2024

[I WAS A GANGSTAR]
PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE PRESIDENT REVEALS 84 people are killed everyday.

01/07/2024

South Africa’s governing African National Congress, ANC, on Monday said the nation’s government of national unity, the GNU, has expanded to five parties, representing more than two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly.

The ANC says it also is in talks with other parties to join the coalition government.

South Africa’s coalition government includes the ANC, the Democratic Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party IFP, the Patriotic Alliance and effective Monday, the GOOD party, a small party with only one seat in parliament.

This collective represents 273 seats in the National Assembly, or 68%, the ANC said in a statement to NAMTV.

The uMkhonto weSizwe, or MK party, led by former President Jacob Zuma, and the Economic Freedom Fighters, or EFF, led by former ANC youth league president Julius Malema, are South Africa’s third and fourth biggest political parties. The two refused to be part of the coalition and have formed an alliance with other smaller parties titled the “Progressive Caucus.”

The Progressive Caucus will be the official opposition to the unity government.

01/07/2024

Let the game begin,no one has ever fought the church and come out victorious. The pontiff Pope has already fired some warning gunshots, let those fighting the church do it at their own peril.

01/07/2024

Lucius Chicco Banda (17 August 1970 – 30 June 2024), better known by his stage name Soldier Lucius Banda, was a Malawian singer-songwriter, music producer and politician from Balaka, Malawi.

In January 2021, he was admitted to hospital for high blood pressure and released 3 days later. In May 2021, it was revealed that he suffered from kidney failures.Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). In June 2010, Banda and other musicians from Malawi were invited to play in Germany. Their venue in Cologne was the key point for an upcoming 2011 Lucius Banda Europe tour. His travelling to Germany attracted a lot of public and political interest in Malawi. He released Thank you album in 2015. Currently, he has nineteen albums to his credit.

Lottie So updates.

01/07/2024

[Conman Arrested By the Church]
A thief muma church ya SDA.... this happened at George main on Saturday .
Juliet Chifunda reports.
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30/06/2024

Kenneth Kaunda,Samora Machel and JULIUS Nyerere met in Tanzania to discuss the liberation of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
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30/06/2024

Junior Pope we were a great actor, MHSRIP.

Junior Pope fans .

30/06/2024

The Sotho ethnic group (also known as Basotho), from which the country derives its name, composes 99.7% of the country's current population, making it one of the most ethnically homogenous in the world. Their native language, Sesotho, is the official language along with English. The name Lesotho translates to "land of the Sesotho speakers".

Lesotho was formed in 1824 by King Moshoeshoe I. Continuous encroachments by Dutch settlers made the King enter into an agreement with the British Empire to become a protectorate in 1868 and, in 1884, a crown colony. It achieved independence in 1966, and was subsequently ruled by the Basotho National Party (BNP) for two decades. Its constitutional government was restored in 1993 after seven years of military rule. King Moshoeshoe II was exiled in 1990 but returned in 1992 and was reinstated in 1995. One year later, Moshoeshoe II died and his son Letsie III took the throne, which he still holds.

Lesotho is considered a lower middle income country with significant socioeconomic challenges. Almost half of its population is below the poverty line, and the country's HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is the second-highest in the world. However, it also targets a high rate of universal primary education and has one of the highest rates of literacy in Africa (81.02% as of 2021). Lesotho is a member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Commonwealth of Nations, the African Union, and the Southern African Development Community. According to 2023 V-Dem Democracy indices, Lesotho is ranked 64th electoral democracy worldwide and 7th electoral democracy in Africa.
Deniza Demwa .

30/06/2024

SA President humbled by soldiers’ ultimate sacrifice for peace in DR Congo.
Soldiers bear the coffin of a colleague, killed in DR Congo, from an aircraft at AFB Waterkloof.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is “deeply saddened’ by the deaths of two soldiers and injuries to 20 more during a mortar attack on a South African base at Sake in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The 25 June attack, credited to the M23 rebel group, brings to five the number of South African soldiers killed in combat since the Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission to the DRC (SAMIDRC) deployed in December.

“President Ramaphosa offers his deep condolences to the families of the fallen troops as well as their commanders and colleagues,” a Presidency statement reads, in part adding “the President’s thoughts are also with the SANDF members who are recovering from their injuries”.
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30/06/2024

The Holoholo also known as Kalanga (Wakalanga in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic group The Inhabitants of the shores of central lake Tanganyika. The majority of them live near Kalemie city on Lake Tanganyika in Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo about 30000, and on the opposite shore of the lake in Uvinza District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania almost 14000 people.
The Holoholo are a matrilineal people.They are descendants of Baguha people who fled from the Luba Empire when it was expanding eastward in the 18th century, settling around Kalemie where the Lukuga River leaves the lake.During the period of Luba dominance that followed the eastward expansion under Luba king Ilunga Sungu around 1800, bambudye secret societies were introduced among the Holoholo and other peoples, propagating oral traditions of the Luba royal family. The Holoholo adopted and adapted the Luba genesis myth, in which they believed there was a mountain called Ilunga Sungu on the west side of the Lualaba towards the Luba heartland, This refers to the location of the court of Ilunga Sungu at Katende.

The 1935 book Les peuplades du Congo belge shows the Holoholo living on both sides of the Lukuga.They became middlemen in the Arab and African slave trade. With the suppression of this trade, the economy collapsed and disease and local warfare decimated the population. Today the economy is mostly agricultural-based on sorghum, maize, peanuts, and beans. Fish are caught with nets, dried and sold locally, the main source of cash in the area. Sorghum is used to make beer.

The Holoholo who live in Tanzania around Kungwe Mountain has a tradition that their ancestors came from the Congo side by means of a long island that continued Kungwe Mountain into the lake. The lake level is highly variable, so it is conceivable that they crossed at a time when it was much lower than today when part of the ridge separating the northern and southern basins of the lake would have been exposed.

Thousands of Holoholo had settled along the Tanganyikan side of the lake by 1915, having sailed over in canoes. A census in 1948 counted 4,410 Holoholo in Tanganyika.[8]

In 1987 the Holoholo people had an estimated population of 12,500 in Tanzania. They traditionally lived in the Mahale Mountains on the east shore of the lake opposite Kalemie. However, they were expelled from this area after 1979 to make way for the Mahale Mountains National Park created in 1985.

27/07/2023

A HISTORY OF ZAMBIA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM

Upon independence in 1964, Zambia adopted the melody of “God Bless Africa” better known as Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika, for the melody, yet different lyrics were written to specifically reflect Zambia. “God Bless Africa” is a popular song and anthem in southern Africa, the song was also formerly used by Zimbabwe and currently by Tanzania and as part of the South African anthem.

A national anthem is a patriotic song adopted by a country as an expression of national identity. It is usually in the form of a song or hymn of praise that evokes and acclaims the history, traditions or struggles of a nation or its people. Most countries in the world have a national anthem, as does Zambia, used during official state functions and to express solidarity and patriotism. Following the passing of the Zambia Independence Act 1964 in the Parliament of the United Kingdom enacting Zambia’s independence from the United Kingdom, Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika was adopted as the national anthem of Zambia, replacing “God Save the Queen”, the anthem of Northern Rhodesia. In 1973, the National Assembly passed the National Anthem Act, which legally defined the English lyrics of “Stand and Sing of Zambia, Proud and Free” as the national anthem of Zambia. The Act also made it an offence to “insult or bring into contempt or ridicule” the anthem and granted the President of Zambia the rights to prescribe how the anthem is sung and to restrict its use.

The English version of Zambia’s national anthem begins “Stand and sing of Zambia, proud and free.” It has also been translated into various Zambian languages. The tune is taken from the hymn ‘Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika’ (God Bless Africa), composed by a South African, Enoch Sontonga, in 1897.

He composed the first verse and chorus of Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika in 1897, using the tune ‘Aberystwyth’ originally composed by Joseph Parry in 1879. (‘Aberystwyth’ is probably better known as ‘Jesus, lover of my soul,’ a hymn written by Charles Wesley to Joseph Parry’s music

Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika was first sung in public in 1899 at the ordination of a Methodist minister. Solomon Plaatje, a writer and founding member of the ANC, was the first to have the song recorded in London in 1923. Rev. John Dube’s Ohlange Zulu Choir popularised the hymn at concerts, and it became a popular church hymn. It started being used at political meetings and was adopted by the African National Congress as its official closing anthem in 1925, becoming a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement.

The hymn’s popularity spread to other countries and throughout southern Africa it became associated with nationalist movements, a pan-African liberation anthem which was later adopted as the national anthem of five countries – South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Namibia and Zimbabwe, after their independence from colonialism.

‘Ishe Komborera Africa’ is the Shona version of God Bless Africa and was Zimbabwe’s first national anthem, adopted after gaining independence in 1980. Zimbabwe and Namibia have since adopted new national anthems. The tune is still used for Tanzania’s national anthem, ‘Mungu ibariki Afrika.’

In 1997 South Africa adopted a joint national anthem combining parts of N’kosi Sikelel iAfrica and ‘Die Stem van Suid Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa), which were respectively the anthems of the non-white and white communities under apartheid. The official lyrics contain a mixture of Xhosa, Zulu, Sesotho, Afrikaans and English.

When Zambia decided to adopt the liberation song as its national anthem in 1964 there was a decision to have new, appropriate words put to the music. A competition was held to compose words for the new anthem. No one entry was considered acceptable in its entirety, but the sentiments and themes of several entries were used in the final composite version. The six authors whose entries were of particular value and who were awarded prizes were: Mr G Ellis of Lusaka, Mr E S Musonda of Kasama, Mr J M S Lichilana of Lusaka, Mrs I Lowe of Luanshya, Mr J Sajiwandani of Luanshya and Mrs R J Seal of Lusaka.

So the Zambian anthem has evolved from the work of several different musical and lyrics composers, but its message is clear – that we are proud of the country and we stand together in unity, strong and free.

Source: i-Ronny

Picture: Enoch Mankayi Sontonga, composer of the national anthem tune.

21/07/2023

DON'T BE QUICK TO
JUDGE
At a wedding ceremony the pastor asked if there was anyone who had any reason why the marriage shouldn't go on; it was time to stand up and speak, or forever let them hold their peace.

The moment of utter silence was interrupted by a young beautiful woman carrying a child. She started slowly walking toward the pastor.
Everything quickly turned to chaos. The bride slapped the groom.

The groom's mother fainted. The bridal trail scooted towards the door.The groom's men huddled together like a bereaved flock, wondering how best to help save the situation.
The pastor asked the woman, "Can you tell us why you came forward? What do you have to say?"
The woman replied,
"I can't hear from the back."
😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

LESSON: Hold judgment until you've had all the facts. However, many times we fire the shots too quickly and beautiful relationships are ruined. Always exercise your patience

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19/07/2023

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18/07/2023

ZAMBIAN COPS ARRESTED 16 CATTLE INSIDE THE POLICE CUSTODY.

18/07/2023

Today in Lusaka 🙏

18/07/2023

Will be back next week Mon