Podcasts about Swazi

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 25:30

A quick note to the SA Podcaster's Guild, thank you for the History podcast of the year silver award — I shared the honour with the 30 Years of Democracy Podcast, part of the TimesLive stable. It's heart warming to receive some sort of recognition, and thanks mainly to you the listener. With that it's back to episode 195 and we're swinging back to the east, to Zululand, where Chief Mpande kaSenzangakhona of the AmaZulu has not been idle for the last two years. When we last heard about Mpande, after a few years of relative quiet once he took over from Dinging as king of the AmaZulu, he began to plot against the Swazi in late 1840s. As he planned and plotted, in the British outpost called Natal, this territory that abounded Durban, two men had arrived who were to alter South African history. Theophilus Shepstone and Hans Schreuder. More about them in a moment. Mpande thought of Eswatini, Swaziland, as a source of treasure, booty, and a future place of refuge for his people just in case the Boers or the British should advance further into Zululand. The good relations between the Boers and the Swazi, at least running up to the mid-19th Century, meant that Mpande was forced to hold off most of his plans to invade King Mswati's land. It was also along a corridor coveted by not only the AmaZulu and the Swazi, but also by the boers. So his first aim was north west, towards smaller kingdoms where the booty was thinner on the ground, not exactly a plethora of cows, rather a smattering but better than nix. The amaHlubi bore the brunt of Mpande's expansionist aims when he attacked Langalibalele kaMthimkulu who had told his people that from now on, it was he and not Mpande who would control the function of rainmaking. Mpande disagreed. The disputes going on Swazi territory gave the AmaZulu king an opportunity to interfere. If you remember a previous podcast, I'd explained that after Mswati was declared the new young king of the amaSwazi, the senior regent Malambule tried to cling onto power — and was backed in his clinging by Mpande. Enter stage left, a missionary who was on a mission. Enter stage right, a second missionary on another mission. Cast member number one, stage left, Theophilus Shepstone, or Somtseu as the Zulu called him. The other, stage right, was lesser known Norwegian Missionary Society's Hans Schreuder. The latter was well over six feet tall, a powerful man, with a powerful temper. He may have been a bible-wielding man of God, but that didn't stop the Viking blood pumping him up when he was crossed. Schreuder would establish 7 mission stations across Zululand and was going to be extremely useful as Mpande's diplomat. Shepstone's role in our story is a complex combination of missionary, Zulu-phile, Anglophone civiliser in chief — a vast figure in our tale. He would suffer many a baleful settler glare, the colonists believed his pro-Zulu politics were dangerous to their almost infinite demand for labour and land. As the Cape colonials moved towards self-government, Natal became a problem child.

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Episode 195 - Mpande's Mswati beef, a bit about Reserves and Bantustans and a Lashing of Self Government

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 25:30

A quick note to the SA Podcaster's Guild, thank you for the History podcast of the year silver award — I shared the honour with the 30 Years of Democracy Podcast, part of the TimesLive stable. It's heart warming to receive some sort of recognition, and thanks mainly to you the listener. With that it's back to episode 195 and we're swinging back to the east, to Zululand, where Chief Mpande kaSenzangakhona of the AmaZulu has not been idle for the last two years. When we last heard about Mpande, after a few years of relative quiet once he took over from Dinging as king of the AmaZulu, he began to plot against the Swazi in late 1840s. As he planned and plotted, in the British outpost called Natal, this territory that abounded Durban, two men had arrived who were to alter South African history. Theophilus Shepstone and Hans Schreuder. More about them in a moment. Mpande thought of Eswatini, Swaziland, as a source of treasure, booty, and a future place of refuge for his people just in case the Boers or the British should advance further into Zululand. The good relations between the Boers and the Swazi, at least running up to the mid-19th Century, meant that Mpande was forced to hold off most of his plans to invade King Mswati's land. It was also along a corridor coveted by not only the AmaZulu and the Swazi, but also by the boers. So his first aim was north west, towards smaller kingdoms where the booty was thinner on the ground, not exactly a plethora of cows, rather a smattering but better than nix. The amaHlubi bore the brunt of Mpande's expansionist aims when he attacked Langalibalele kaMthimkulu who had told his people that from now on, it was he and not Mpande who would control the function of rainmaking. Mpande disagreed. The disputes going on Swazi territory gave the AmaZulu king an opportunity to interfere. If you remember a previous podcast, I'd explained that after Mswati was declared the new young king of the amaSwazi, the senior regent Malambule tried to cling onto power — and was backed in his clinging by Mpande. Enter stage left, a missionary who was on a mission. Enter stage right, a second missionary on another mission. Cast member number one, stage left, Theophilus Shepstone, or Somtseu as the Zulu called him. The other, stage right, was lesser known Norwegian Missionary Society's Hans Schreuder. The latter was well over six feet tall, a powerful man, with a powerful temper. He may have been a bible-wielding man of God, but that didn't stop the Viking blood pumping him up when he was crossed. Schreuder would establish 7 mission stations across Zululand and was going to be extremely useful as Mpande's diplomat. Shepstone's role in our story is a complex combination of missionary, Zulu-phile, Anglophone civiliser in chief — a vast figure in our tale. He would suffer many a baleful settler glare, the colonists believed his pro-Zulu politics were dangerous to their almost infinite demand for labour and land. As the Cape colonials moved towards self-government, Natal became a problem child.

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SWAZI HAT EDITION - DIDDY RAPED BEEBS, CODEX RAT, NEW YORK, JEWS & TRUMP, DRAGONAGE WOKENESS

PNN America

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 44:48

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Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 23:14

This is episode 174. First off, a big thank you to all the folks who've supported me and for sharing so many personal stories of your ancestry. Particularly Jane who is a font of knowledge about the Williams family, and John who's been communicating about the Transkei. Please also sign up for the weekly newsletter by heading off to desmondlatham.blog - you can also email me from that site. When we left off episode 173, King Mswati the first was running out of patience with his elder brother Somcuba. Voortrekker leader Hendrick Potgieter had also left the area north of the Swazi territory, settling in the Zoutpansberg. It was his last trek. He'd signed a treaty with Bapedi chief Sekwati, which had precluded any proper agreement with the other Voortrekkers around Lydenburg. With Potgieter gone, however, things were about to change. We need to swing back across the vast land to the region south of the Vaal River because dramatic events were taking place in 1848 - clashes between the British empire and the trekkers. By now, the area between the Orange and the Vaal was an imbroglio, elements of every type of society that existed in southern Africa for millennia could be found scattered across the region. Hunters and gatherers, pastoralists, farmers, San, Khoesan, Khoekhoe, BaSotho, Afrikaners, Boers, mixed race Griqua and Koranna, and British settlers could be found here. In some cases different combinations of these peoples lived together cheek by jowel, many combinations of cultures, languages and political systems. A classic frontier situation, with intermingling and very little structured relationship charactersing the mingling. Some of the San, Khoekhoe and even Basotho were now incorporated as servants of the Boers, and each of those groups were divided into rival political commuties. Bands of San still hunted through this area, despite attempts to eradicate them, a kind of ethnic cleansing you've heard about. In the south east, on either side of the Caledon River, rival Sotho states existed, under Moshoeshoe, Moletsane, Sikonyela, and Moroka — each of these had their own tame missionary living alongside as an insurance policy against each other and the British and Boers. By 1848 the new Governor of the Cape, Sir Harry Smith, had begun to experiment with British expansionism that he'd observed in India, assuming British culture and traditions, the empire's institutions, were superior to all other. Smith loved to oversimplify complex problems, and the made him a natural expansionist and a man likely to make big mistakes. Within two months of arriving in Cape Town in December 1847, he had extended the frontiers of the Cape Colony to the Orange River in the arid north west of the Cape. This was between the area known as Ramah and the Atlantic Ocean. He'd annexed the land between the Keiskamma River and the Kraai River Basin in the east, booted out the amaXhosa, and annexed two contiguous areas as seperate British colonies — British Caffraria between the Keiskamma and the Kei River, and a second area that became known as the Orange River Sovereignty between the Orange and Vaal Rivers. Pretorius was so incensed that he began fanning the flames of anti-British opposition, or probably to be more accurate, anti-Smith opposition. This resentment boiled over in July 1848 when Pretorius with commandants Stander, Kock and Mocke led a powerful force of 200 Transvalers and about 800 Free Staters along with a 3 pounder artillery gun into Bloemfontein. The preamble to the Battle of Boomplaats had begun.

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Episode 174 - The 1848 British defeat of the Boers at the Battle of Boomplaats near Bloemfontein

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 23:14

This is episode 174. First off, a big thank you to all the folks who've supported me and for sharing so many personal stories of your ancestry. Particularly Jane who is a font of knowledge about the Williams family, and John who's been communicating about the Transkei. Please also sign up for the weekly newsletter by heading off to desmondlatham.blog - you can also email me from that site. When we left off episode 173, King Mswati the first was running out of patience with his elder brother Somcuba. Voortrekker leader Hendrick Potgieter had also left the area north of the Swazi territory, settling in the Zoutpansberg. It was his last trek. He'd signed a treaty with Bapedi chief Sekwati, which had precluded any proper agreement with the other Voortrekkers around Lydenburg. With Potgieter gone, however, things were about to change. We need to swing back across the vast land to the region south of the Vaal River because dramatic events were taking place in 1848 - clashes between the British empire and the trekkers. By now, the area between the Orange and the Vaal was an imbroglio, elements of every type of society that existed in southern Africa for millennia could be found scattered across the region. Hunters and gatherers, pastoralists, farmers, San, Khoesan, Khoekhoe, BaSotho, Afrikaners, Boers, mixed race Griqua and Koranna, and British settlers could be found here. In some cases different combinations of these peoples lived together cheek by jowel, many combinations of cultures, languages and political systems. A classic frontier situation, with intermingling and very little structured relationship charactersing the mingling. Some of the San, Khoekhoe and even Basotho were now incorporated as servants of the Boers, and each of those groups were divided into rival political commuties. Bands of San still hunted through this area, despite attempts to eradicate them, a kind of ethnic cleansing you've heard about. In the south east, on either side of the Caledon River, rival Sotho states existed, under Moshoeshoe, Moletsane, Sikonyela, and Moroka — each of these had their own tame missionary living alongside as an insurance policy against each other and the British and Boers. By 1848 the new Governor of the Cape, Sir Harry Smith, had begun to experiment with British expansionism that he'd observed in India, assuming British culture and traditions, the empire's institutions, were superior to all other. Smith loved to oversimplify complex problems, and the made him a natural expansionist and a man likely to make big mistakes. Within two months of arriving in Cape Town in December 1847, he had extended the frontiers of the Cape Colony to the Orange River in the arid north west of the Cape. This was between the area known as Ramah and the Atlantic Ocean. He'd annexed the land between the Keiskamma River and the Kraai River Basin in the east, booted out the amaXhosa, and annexed two contiguous areas as seperate British colonies — British Caffraria between the Keiskamma and the Kei River, and a second area that became known as the Orange River Sovereignty between the Orange and Vaal Rivers. Pretorius was so incensed that he began fanning the flames of anti-British opposition, or probably to be more accurate, anti-Smith opposition. This resentment boiled over in July 1848 when Pretorius with commandants Stander, Kock and Mocke led a powerful force of 200 Transvalers and about 800 Free Staters along with a 3 pounder artillery gun into Bloemfontein. The preamble to the Battle of Boomplaats had begun.

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Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter's last trek

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 25:44

This is episode 173 and we're in what was called the north eastern transvaal, modern day Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Last we heard how Hendrick Potgieter's Voortrekkers had camped at a new town they named Ohrigstad in 1845, after leaving the are around Potchefstroom. Potgieter wanted to move further away from the British, and he sought a new port to replace Durban which had been annexed by the English. The area around Ohrigstad had a major drawback, apart from the fact it was already populated by the Bapedi. The lowlands were rife with malaria. Within a few weeks of arriving in the rainy season of 1845, men women and children began dying. The trekkers realised they had to move once more so families packed up their wagons and trekked to higher ground 50 kilometers south. The named the new town Lydenburg and established a new Republic named after the town. The Boers were gathered across the Vaal now, deep into the lowveld, spreading out across southern Africa. They had congregated around towns like Winburg, Potchefstroom, Ohrigstad, Lydenburg. Local African chieftans had to decide how they were going to face this arrival, was it a threat or opportunity? Later it would obviously become clear that the boers arrival was a threat, but this wasn't the case at first in spite of modern assumptions. They were new power brokers, thinly spread, a minority on the ground and the Bapedi Chief Sekwati quickly came to the conclusion that the trekkers were an opportunity rather than threat. So when Hendrick Potgieter and his trekkers rolled onto the landscape, a meeting was arranged between the Boer leader and the Bapedi chief. On the 5th July 1845 a Vredenstractaat was signed - a treaty - which granted the Boers the land east of the Steelpoort River. As I pointed out last episode, many of the Boers who had trekked with Potgieter took exception to this treaty. They said he was acting dictatorially, and wanted more of a say in how these treaties were being signed. King Mswati of the Swazi's who lived south east of this region was aware of what was going on. The Boers understood that he also laid claim to the Steelpoort, and had been fighting constantly with Sekwati about who had the right to this region. Mswati met with this group of disatissfied Boers, and told them that the Bapedi were his subjects, he'd defeated them. The Boers under Potgieter and the second group who regarded themselves as independent of Potgieter's actions continued to settle on Bapedi land and friction developed. The Bapedi took a liking to the Boer cattle, and raids escalated quite quickly into full-blown attacks between the two groups on the veld. Sekwati had heard about the Boers and Mswati's recent talks, so naturally he was suspicious of their motives. The Bapedi king encouraged the raiding of Boer cattle so by 1846 bad faith seemed to imbue all negotiations. Then an incident occurred that escalated matters. According to the Bapedi annals, the Boers complained that in joint Boer-Bapedi hunting parties the Bapedi had taken more than their allotted share of game. The Boer annals report something much more violent. That was the Bapedi raid on a Boer laager at Strydpoort, just south of modern day Polokwane. The trekkers were particularly angry because the Bapedi raided the laager on a day that most of the men were away hunting with a section of Bapedi, leaving the women alone. It was the women who fought off the attackers. There are poignant stories told by trekkers who survived how the women were knocked flat on their backs every time they fired these huge heavy muskets, leaving them bruised and battered but unbowed. There is further intrigue. The Trekkers had no idea about who owned which bit of land, they naturally assumed that Mswati was the overlord considering his people's military social structure, similar to the amaZulu who by now, they knew well. What followed was intrigue, mystery, myth and of course, war.

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Episode 173 - Boer women fight off the Bapedi, Mpande interferes in Swazi business and Potgieter's last trek

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2024 25:44

This is episode 173 and we're in what was called the north eastern transvaal, modern day Mpumalanga and Limpopo. Last we heard how Hendrick Potgieter's Voortrekkers had camped at a new town they named Ohrigstad in 1845, after leaving the are around Potchefstroom. Potgieter wanted to move further away from the British, and he sought a new port to replace Durban which had been annexed by the English. The area around Ohrigstad had a major drawback, apart from the fact it was already populated by the Bapedi. The lowlands were rife with malaria. Within a few weeks of arriving in the rainy season of 1845, men women and children began dying. The trekkers realised they had to move once more so families packed up their wagons and trekked to higher ground 50 kilometers south. The named the new town Lydenburg and established a new Republic named after the town. The Boers were gathered across the Vaal now, deep into the lowveld, spreading out across southern Africa. They had congregated around towns like Winburg, Potchefstroom, Ohrigstad, Lydenburg. Local African chieftans had to decide how they were going to face this arrival, was it a threat or opportunity? Later it would obviously become clear that the boers arrival was a threat, but this wasn't the case at first in spite of modern assumptions. They were new power brokers, thinly spread, a minority on the ground and the Bapedi Chief Sekwati quickly came to the conclusion that the trekkers were an opportunity rather than threat. So when Hendrick Potgieter and his trekkers rolled onto the landscape, a meeting was arranged between the Boer leader and the Bapedi chief. On the 5th July 1845 a Vredenstractaat was signed - a treaty - which granted the Boers the land east of the Steelpoort River. As I pointed out last episode, many of the Boers who had trekked with Potgieter took exception to this treaty. They said he was acting dictatorially, and wanted more of a say in how these treaties were being signed. King Mswati of the Swazi's who lived south east of this region was aware of what was going on. The Boers understood that he also laid claim to the Steelpoort, and had been fighting constantly with Sekwati about who had the right to this region. Mswati met with this group of disatissfied Boers, and told them that the Bapedi were his subjects, he'd defeated them. The Boers under Potgieter and the second group who regarded themselves as independent of Potgieter's actions continued to settle on Bapedi land and friction developed. The Bapedi took a liking to the Boer cattle, and raids escalated quite quickly into full-blown attacks between the two groups on the veld. Sekwati had heard about the Boers and Mswati's recent talks, so naturally he was suspicious of their motives. The Bapedi king encouraged the raiding of Boer cattle so by 1846 bad faith seemed to imbue all negotiations. Then an incident occurred that escalated matters. According to the Bapedi annals, the Boers complained that in joint Boer-Bapedi hunting parties the Bapedi had taken more than their allotted share of game. The Boer annals report something much more violent. That was the Bapedi raid on a Boer laager at Strydpoort, just south of modern day Polokwane. The trekkers were particularly angry because the Bapedi raided the laager on a day that most of the men were away hunting with a section of Bapedi, leaving the women alone. It was the women who fought off the attackers. There are poignant stories told by trekkers who survived how the women were knocked flat on their backs every time they fired these huge heavy muskets, leaving them bruised and battered but unbowed. There is further intrigue. The Trekkers had no idea about who owned which bit of land, they naturally assumed that Mswati was the overlord considering his people's military social structure, similar to the amaZulu who by now, they knew well. What followed was intrigue, mystery, myth and of course, war.

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Multilingualism

Where To Be A Woman

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 30:58

There are an estimated 7,000 languages around the world, and experts think being a polyglot – someone who speaks more than one language - is good for us. So where in the world is multilingualism flourishing? And what are the social, emotional and cognitive benefits of speaking multiple languages? Whether it's Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Irish, French, Kashmiri, Pedi, Swazi or Afrikaans - should we all start learning a new one? We hear from an organisation supporting multilingualism among children in Ireland. And we learn about the twelve official languages - and many more - being used every day in South Africa. Guests: Suzanne McCarthy from the organisation Mother Tongues, and social linguist Dr Lorato Mokwena.Let us know what you think. Share your thoughts on this episode and suggest ideas for a new one by sending us a voice note on WhatsApp: +44330 123 9459 You can read the full privacy notice here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2pj25vkld7tZ2Lq2d0Z3YjT/where-to-be-a-woman-privacy-notice

Unveiling the mysteries: Investigating the Swazi Secrets revelation

Radio Islam

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 5:54

Unveiling the mysteries: Investigating the Swazi Secrets revelation by Radio Islam

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Standing with Tanele

Human Rights Foundation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 23:48

Casey and Elisha speak with HRF's Africa policy officer, Mo Keita, talks about the recent arrest of Swazi activist and former podcast guest, Tanele Maseko. They talk about how the Swazi regime's efforts to silence critics continue to backfire and how to support the pro-democratic reformers targeting Africa's last absolute monarchy. To listen to Casey and Elisha speak to Tanele Maseko on Dissidents and Dictators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I3HJ2AKGak&list=PL3qhzGxahwqbYKj2Q-ZczKNaeofATzMgG&index=5

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Speaking truth to an absolute monarch

Human Rights Foundation

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 29, 2024 34:17

After her husband, human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, was assassinated in front of her, Swazi human rights defender Tanele Maseko picked up right where he left off: peacefully (and powerfully) speaking truth to power. In this episode, she talks with Casey and Elisha about the politics of Swaziland, Africa's last absolute monarchy, her husband's legacy, what she's doing as CEO of the Thulani Maseko Foundation, and gives us all the treat of a lifetime. You'll have to tune in to hear it, though. To listen to Tanele read Thulani Maseko's letter: "Greetings from cell G4": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjQHUF388c

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Healing Humanity with Sangoma Shaman John Lockley

Dr. Lotte: Science with Soul

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2024 58:06

John Lockley is a fully initiated and ordained Sangoma (African Shaman) in two lineages from South Africa, the Xhosa and Swazi nations. His Xhosa apprenticeship took 10 years and he was foreseen in a dream by his teacher, MaMngwevu, a senior Xhosa sangoma from the same tribe as Nelson Mandela, who inivted him to be her apprentice. He was one of the first modern white men in recent times after Apartheid to be awarded the title of 'Ligqira Linkulu' by his Xhosa elders, meaning senior sangoma. His Xhosa name given by his teacher is 'Ucingolweendaba', meaning 'the messenger or bridge between cultures'. He has pioneered the bridge between modern western Psychology and traditional South African healing. For the last 13 years he has been facilitating 'Ubuntu' (Humanity) and Way of the Leopard retreats worldwide, teaching people how they can reconnect to their Ancestors, Spirit and the Earth. A passion of John's is teaching people indigenous African medicine to help them reconnect to the earth. He facilitates this through his 'Dreams & Tracking' retreats in the Kalahari Desert every year, and 'Leopard Warrior trails' in south Africa. John holds an honors degree in Clinical Psychology. He is also a Zen meditation practitioner with over 30 years of experience. He took Buddhist precepts with Zen Master Su Bong from South Korea in 1992. John offers private divination and healing sessions online. He is the author of the book 'Leopard Warrior', and audio teachings 'The Way of the Leopard', both published by Sounds True. He now splits his time between South Africa, Botswana (Kalahari Desert) and Canada. Visit Sangoma Shaman John Lockley's Website: www.JohnLockley.com Follow John Lockley on: Instagram, Facebook, & YouTube. Book Mentioned in this Episode: Leopard Warrior UPCOMING RETREATS Dreams and Tracking Retreat March 2024 - LEARN MORE The Way of Ubuntu Retreat April 2024 - LEARN MORE Leopard Warrior Trails Retreat May 2024 - LEARN MORE __________________________________ Subscribe to Dr. Lotte's Newsletter Visit Dr. Lotte's Website Stay Connected on Social Meida, follow Dr. Lotte on Instagram & Facebook

The Impact of a Woman's Vote: Mazzi's Cross-Party Dilemma with Naysa Woomer

Political Contessa

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 45:16

In this week's episode, Jennifer Nassaur converses with Naysa Woomer about the intricacies of a highly anticipated special election, pointing out the challenges faced by candidate Mazzi. They delve into the importance of the election not just within George Santos' vacated congressional seat but how it could echo into the larger political narrative of the November elections. Naysa and Jennifer engage in a frank and critical discussion about the candidates, the campaign mishaps, and the political climate that shapes this significant political event. Naysa Woomer is an eminent political strategist with keen insights into election campaigns and policy discussions. Her discerning viewpoints on contemporary political issues shed light on the machinations behind political campaigns and their impact on elections. With her extensive experience in dealing with complex political scenarios, Woomer brings a critical eye and an informed voice to the conversation on the candidacy of Mazzi, the election dynamics, and the state of politics today. "Mazzi's been doing a great job moving up the field, getting her name recognized." ~ Jennifer Nassaur Today on Political Contessa: An analysis of candidate Swazi's campaign performance and lack of due diligence. A look into Mazzi's unique political stance and her balancing of Democratic and Republican ideologies. The convoluted political landscape was due to the timing of the special election. The overshadowed media coverage of the election and the challenges posed by expensive media markets. There are historical implications of having a candidate like Mazzi in Congress. The campaign hurdles faced by Mazzi included media availability and debate presence. Jennifer emphasizes the importance of being politically informed and active in voting. The recognition of Mazzi's progress in gaining recognition despite a rapid and challenging campaign start. Connect with Naysa :LinkedInTwitter Resources Mentioned:Pocketbook Project Awaken Your Inner Political Contessa Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Political Contessa. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Spotify I Stitcher I Apple Podcasts I iHeart Radio I TuneIn I Google Podcasts Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media. And if you've ever considered running for office – or know a woman who should – head over to politicalcontessa.com to grab my quick guide, Secrets from the Campaign Trail. It will show you five signs to tell you you're ready to enter the political arena.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 148 - The AmaZulu routed by amaSwazi Widow Bird warriors and Mpande's exodus

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2023 24:35

This is episode 148 and there're negotiations afoot between Dingana and the Voortrekkers, at the behest of Captain Henry Jervis who led the small detachment of British troops based at Port Natal. Their role was to stabilise the Natal region after a year of extreme violence, the Voortrekkers and the AmaZulu king Dingana were fighting tooth and nail. Jervis as you heard was one of the characters in our history that crop up here and there and are able to act as neutral arbitrators between different factions. Gambusha the trusted inceku sent by Dinanga had arrived at the British camp on 23 February 1839 and said that the AmaZulu were on the brink of ruin and would accept any terms that Jervis would propose. Gambusha also asked for the British to consider allying themselves with the AmaZulu to oppose the Voortrekker expansion, Dingana wanted British protection. Jervis could not do this, saying that his role was to act as a go-between and could not take sides. Gambusha took that message back to the Zulu king. On the 23rd March two inceku called Gikwana and Gungwana returned to Port Natal with 300 of the Boer horses they had captured in the year of fighting as a sign of good faith. Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius then arrived as you heard, calling himself the “Grand Commandant of the Right Worshipful the representative assembly of the South African Society at Natal.” Had business cards been a thing back in 1839 that title wouldn't fit on one side. Nevertheless, peace talks were now underway. Eventually the terms were agreed — that Dingana would return all the muskets, horses, sheep and 19,300 cattle he'd taken from the trekkers and allow them to live unmolested south of the Thukela River. IN turn, the Boers would assist the Zulu should they come under attack. It was also agreed that from now on, all AmaZulu emissaries who crossed the Thukela River should carry a white flag indicating who they were, and that those found without this pass would be shot on sight. Pretorius also demanded that Dingana should send a messenger directly to him in Pietermaritzburg when they were ready to hand over the cattle and other goods. The British were to be left out of future meetings. The problem for Dingana, is that he was now trying to carve out new territory that was in the name of the Swazi king Sobhuza the First. And the reason why it was a problem was the Swazi could fight like the amaZulu. And yet, Dingana was also using Pretorius' final demand as part of his political strategy, because when men married, they would have to be given land for their homesteads. By occupying vast tracts of Swazi land, Dingana would also be reinforcing his own political power, colonising new vistas for the Zulu. There was another reason why Dingana was focusing on the amaSwazi, a people whom the AmaZulu looked down on. Attacking them would be part of an ihlambo, a washing of the spears, a purification ceremony bathed in blood marking the end of the period of mourning set off by the humiliation of being defeated by the Boers. This washing of the spears would mean the evil spirits that caused the defeat, the umnyama, the evil influence, would be pushed away into the territory of the foe.The Swazi now faced a amaZulu invasion which began in the winter of 1839, a far more threatening action than any of the previous raids. This was an attack of colonial occupation by four Amabutho, the umBelebele, the uNomdayana, umKulutshane and the imVoko. Klwana kaNgqengele led these regiments, a man from one of the most powerful chiefly houses, the Buthelezi. It was Mpande kaSenzangakhona who was going to change the equation. Dingana's half-brother had been in hiding after another attempt on his life by the capricious Zulu king, and in September 1839 he had fled across the Thukela River with 17 000 people, and 25 000 head of cattle.

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The Swazi People's Lawyers -Mzwandile Masuku

Human Rights Foundation

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2023 14:37

In 2009, Swazi human rights lawyer Mzwandile Masuku launched, with the late renowned human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko, the only law firm in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) fully dedicated to public interest litigation against the kingdom's repression law and pro-bono legal representation of ordinary Swazis. In this episode, recorded at the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum, Masuku advocates for the protection of human rights lawyers, the rights of detained individuals to a fair trial, and nonviolent democratic reform.

EPISODE 129 - Lindley blesses the Boers, a sweep of 1837 and Stockenström's bitter end

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2023 23:04

We are trundling along late in 1837, and as you heard last week, Dingane was dabbling in cross border raids, or at least, cross Drakensburg raids, and had dealt Mzilikazi a penultimate blow. Coming soon towards the Ndebele, were the Boers intent on delivering a coup de grâce. Time to talk a bit aobut Daniel Lindley the American missionary who had been living at Mzilikazi's main imizi Mosega in the Klein Marico valley, and who had left in a hurry along with the other missionaries after the Boer raiding party shot up the homestead. If anyone was qualified to attend to both amaNdebele and Boer mission needs it was Lindley. There is even a town named after him in the Free State which unlike so many others, has retained its name from its origin. Lindley actually became more famous administering to the Christian needs of the Boers in Natal — not the Free State — so the Free Stater's named a town after him. Lindley had been brought up in the American west, he was a dead shot as well as a fearless horseman which made him quite a hit with the Boers of 1837. This was no soft little Englishman, oh no, this was a man of the plains. But he was also an ordained Presbyterian minister, and intellectually stringent. When Potgieter and Maritz returned from their raid on Mzilikazi in early 1837, they relied on Lindley's skills with animals and his hardy attitude while they had very little time for the other two missionaries who appeared lost on the veld. Daniel Lindley was born in Pennsylvania alongside a tiny stream called Ten Mile Creek in August 1801. His father founded Ohio University, so its no surprise that the lad was quite an academic. Back in southern Africa, by the 1830s the political face of the region north of the Orange River and east of the Kalahari Desert was profoundly transformed. Farming communities in the early phase of these changes — say from 1760 onwards, were comprised of a few hundred chiefdoms, small fluid clans and tribes if you like, but by the 1830s there were three large centralised African kingdoms. The AmaZulu in the East, the abakwaGaza or the Gaza as they're better known, in the north east and the amaNdebele in the west. But by the 1830s the Swazi were emerging once more as a power player on the veld. Just to remind ourselves, the kingdoms both centralised and less-centralised were characterised by three clear social divisions — and all were definitely not equal. At the top was the aristocracy consisting of the ruling family and a number of other families who were allowed into the rarified atmosphere of elitism through ties of descent, or political loyalty, or a combination of the two. And to the south, Port Natal had become an important stop over for many ships, British traders were interested in this little bay with its excellent products collected by traders who were subject to Dingane's rule. The traders did not like being ruled by this Zulu king and were making plans to change up the power base of what was to become Natal.Speaking of the English, a Swede-Dutch mixed man was now back in the Cape running the Grahamstown and frontier districts. Andries Stockenstrom had sailed back from his temporary exile in Sweden, and was now the lieutenant governor of the eastern Cape. Lord Glenelg the Colonial Secretary was a liberal and wanted liberals to run the show in Southern Africa and Stockenstrom, despite being a Boer, was also a liberal. Stockenstrom was more in step with the thinking of the missionaries, not the settlers. This was to have repercussions for both the English administration and the 1820 English — and the Boers.

Velaphi Mamba: Tribute to Thulani Maseko - Servant of Humanity

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2023 71:50

This is a tributary episode on the world-renowned activist and human rights attorney, Thulani R Maseko (TR) from Swaziland, who was allegedly slain by King Mswati III's regime (Swaziland). For this homage, my guest is Velaphi Mamba a long-time friend and comrade of TR. Velaphi Mamba is a vibrant activist and treasurer general of the People's United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO), and recent master's degree graduate from Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. Velaphi and I talk about: *Historiography and ethnology of the Maseko clan and their major contributions to Swaziland's polity. *The Swazi state's stratagem of complete decimation of other clans' chiefs, and kingdoms - an erasure of the history of the clans causing a loss of self-determination and independence. *TR's litany of human rights cases and his contribution to the jurisprudence in Swaziland and his service to humanity internationally. Find Velaphi Mamba Here: https://www.facebook.com/velaphi.mamba.3?mibextid=ZbWKwL --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mpilo-nkambule/support

In Memoriam: Swazi human rights defender, Thulani Maseko

Strength & Solidarity

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2023 43:18

On January 21, 2023, human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko was murdered in Swaziland. He was a remarkable advocate for rights and democracy, a commitment that brought him into direct confrontation with his country's absolute ruler, King Mswati III over decades. His family, friends and fellow citizens are grief-stricken and the international human rights and justice community is outraged. Maseko had been due to spend a week with a group of human rights activists and leaders in our Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights. We met to celebrate his work and decided to share this audio recording of the event. For a list of supplemental readings and additional information, please visit https://strengthandsolidarity.org/podcasts/ Send your ideas and feedback to pod@strengthandsolidarity.org

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An Assassination in Eswatini

The Delve

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2023 29:55

On January 21 prominent human rights lawyer, #ThulaniMaseko was assassinated in #Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). Thulani was also previously a guest on The Delve. Today we're re-releasing his episode to honor a man of hope and raise awareness about the abuses in Eswatini. -- Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, has seen months of ongoing pro-democracy protests. Each one has been met with deadly force by a police and military that answer directly to the King. This week we speak with Thulani Maseko, human rights lawyer and pro-democracy advocate about the situation on the ground in this southern African nation. Support the eSwatini Solidarity Fund @eswatinisolidarity if you can and share this story far and wide. Without international pressure the King will continue to oppress the Swazi people through violence and terror.

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Sandile Bhembe: The Origins of Police Force in Swaziland - Who Were They Established to Protect?

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 47:10

Sandile Bhembe, a Swazi historian, business analyst, and political activist returns to the show to talk about the origins of the Police Force in Swaziland. Police in Swaziland, like their counterparts elsewhere in the world, have increasingly become very violent and brutal to civilians agitating for democratic changes. Sandile tells us that the Police Force was established to protect European white settler capital interests. A hardly told story of Sobhuza II's mistrust of Police because of their loyalty to British settlers is told here. Astonishingly, the king was once arrested by the police as white settlers had no regard for the king. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

56 - Bedtime Sport (feat. Geraldo's Real Step-Father)

Edge Game

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2023 79:33

Hello, is this Pizza Hut? Excellent. My name is Ben Shapiro. Conservative thought leader. Prominent white YouTuber. The Muggsy Bogues of the intellectual dark Web. And—look, it's just a fact—I would like to order some pizza pie. If you are triggered by that request, I do not care. I truly do not. Now let's discuss conditions. First, thank you for agreeing to debate me. Typically, in fora such as this, I am met with ad-hominem mudslinging, anything from “You racist creep” or “Is that your real voice?” to raucous schoolyard laughter and threats of the dreaded “toilet swirly.” However, your willingness to engage with me over the phone on the subject of pizza shows an intellectual fortitude and openness to dangerous ideas which reflects highly on your character. Huzzah, good sir. Huzzah. Second, any pizza I order will be male. None of this “Our pizza identifies as trans-fluid-pan-poly”—no. Pizza is a boy. With a penis. It's that simple. It's been true for all of human history, from Plato to Socrates to Mr. Mistoffelees, and any attempt to rewrite the pillars of Western thought will be met with a hearty “Fuh!” by yours truly. And, trust me, that is not a fate you wish to meet. Now. With regard to my topping preference. I have eaten from your pizzeria in times past, and it must be said: your pepperoni is embarrassingly spicy. Frankly, it boggles the mind. I mean, what kind of drugs are you inhaling over there? Pot?! One bite of that stuff and I had to take a shower. So tread lightly when it comes to spice, my good man. You do not want to see me at my most epic. Like the great white hero of Zack Snyder's classic film “300,” I will kick you. Onions, peppers—no, thank you. If I wanted veggies, I'd go to a salad bar. I'm not some sort of vegan, Cory Booker weirdo. And your efforts to Michelle Obama-ize the great American pizza pie are, frankly, hilarious. Though not as funny as the impressively named P'Zone—when I finally figured out that genuinely creative pun, I laughed until I cried and peed. A true Spartan admits defeat, and I must admit that, in this instance, your Hut humor slayed me, Dennis Miller style. And, with that, you have earned my order. Congratulations. Ahem. Without further ado, I would like your smallest child pizza, no sauce, extra cheese. Hello? Aha. A hang-up. Another triggered lib, bested by logic. Damn it. I'm fucking starving. I think that it's ok to be sexually aroused by Pokemon. More so, I think it should be encouraged in the games and anime, and GameFreak should lean into it. Firstly, some Pokemon are shown to be much smarter then humans. Kadabra has been said to have an IQ over 5000, which is gigantically more than the definition of an animal, which have an IQ between 0 (Worms and Fish) and 65 (Apes and Octopus). Thus, they are smarter then needed to be able to give consent. Secondly, the argument could be made they are not as empathetic as humans, and thus can't give consent. This is proven not to be true numerous times in the anime, by watching Meowth. In Season 2, Episode 16 of the Pokemon show, it is established that he is no smarter or different then regular Pokemon, he simply learnt to walk by watching a dance rehearsal and later learnt English through a picture book. Throughout the following seasons, it's shown how he schemes, laughs, cries and even at points, deceives people into thinking he is a human (in order to steal Ash's Pikachu of course). And the last piece of damning evidence - a folk tale in the Canalave Library (Pokémon Diamond and Pearl) literally STATES that humans used to marry Pokémon. This was removed in the English translation. Gamefreak, if you wanted us to fuck Pokémon, just say it. Conclusively, Pokemon aren't animals. They are intelligent, with empathy and kindness, and should be treated as equals. Denying them the right to have sex with humans removes their freedom, which is racist, and frankly, unamerican. An Afghan, an Albanian, an Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguans, an Argentine, an Armenian, an Australian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Barbudans, a Batswanan, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Brit, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burmese, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Croatian, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutchman, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Equatorial Guinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadian, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, a Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monacan, a Mongolian, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Namibian, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Samoan, a San Marinese, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scottish, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Tajik, a Tanzanian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian or Tobagonian, a Tunisian, a Turk, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, a Uruguayan, a Uzbekistani, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemenite, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean all go to a bar.. The doorman stops them and says "Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai." also i'm gay

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While the West Attacks China, They Ignore Taiwanese Neocolonialism in Swaziland/eSwatini

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2023 19:21

While the West attacks China, it ignores the fact that Taiwan is colonizing Swaziland by backing the authoritarian neocolonial absolute monarchy of King Mswati III. This is an analysis of the situation with testimonials from Swazi people struggling against this colonialism. @friendsofswazifreedom3374 https://friendsofswazi.com/ https://twitter.com/friendsofswazi https://www.facebook.com/friendsofswazi/Cash App/Venmo: $friendsofswazi All videos used are fair use. Credit to: Why China Is in Africa - If You Don't Know, Now You Know (The Daily Show) Rex Tillerson attempts to counter China influence in Africa China's Rush Into Africa, Explained. (Johnny Harris) How Africa is Becoming China's China (Wendover Productions) Weaving a Future in Swaziland (Formosa TV English News) How The Eswatini Royal Family Spends Their Billions (The Richest) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cadre-journal/support

Taiwan's Imperialism in Swaziland: How Taiwan Supports Neocolonialism in Africa, with Cde. Pius

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022 24:28

We discuss Taiwan's imperialism in Swaziland through weapons shipments and super-exploitation of Swazi labor, as well as the need for international solidarity with the Communist Party of Swaziland, with Cde. Pius. Check out CPS: @CPSwaziland https://cp-swa.orgCheck out Pius: https://twitter.com/PiusmyRinto

Book Review: The Kingdom of Swaziland: Studies in Political History (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies)

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2022 68:16

Friends/comrades Saneliswa Magagula, Temazulu Zulu, and Sylvester Mhlangameet up with me for a book review on the history of Swaziland. The book under review is “The Kingdom of Swaziland: Studies in Political History (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies) authored by D. Hugh Gillis. The book entails Swaziland's history from the 18th century to 1921 – before Sobhuza II ascends to power. Its focus is the Swazis' contact and struggle with European colonizers, namely: the British and Boers. The book gives context to the current state of affairs in Swaziland relative to the power wielders – the monarch, culture, tradition and social milieu. Highlights · There is a deliberate ongoing effort to erase parts of Swazi culture that disparage the Dlamini royals, an attempt to protect their (Dlamini) dynasty and cement their standing as the custodians of Swazi culture who dictate what traditions persist. · A study of this history will help Swazis understand how the monarchs' erasure of culture and downplaying the role of non-Dlamini chiefdoms contributed to the present-day political landscape. · The author traces the roots of Swaziland's tinkhundlasystem of governance to the early 19th century, where a militant king Mswati II established royal villages that were entrusted to a brother, a wife, or loyal chief as a way to consolidate power. The identity of the Swazi people historically was deep-rooted in rituals and mythology, which contributed to the prestige of Kings and authoritarian rule not being sufficiently challenged in the past. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

Take Your Glory Lord - William Duma (day 7): The True King

Luke Powell Daily Devotions

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2022 2:33

Ministering to the King of Swaziland, Duma boldly proclaimed that only Jesus was the true King of kings. How did the Swazi king react? Listen and find out.

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020 | Life in Swaziland with Danielle Ford

I Wanna Know

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 48:45

Danielle is my fellow potato lover and has been in Swaziland, Africa for the last five years supporting disabled children and their families. If you'd like to connect with her or offer support, links for both are below! On today's episode, I want to know about: the Siswati name for Swaziland, eSwatini safari shenanigans with a rhino and a rogue guide common American misconceptions about Swazi life her first apartment situation the cultural significance of cows the 2021 attempt to overthrow the Swazi monarchy what makes Swaziland feel like home in the midst of all the hard things happening there working in Africa vs. being a missionary Connect with Danielle: Send an email: danielleford@adventures.org Financial support: DanielleFord.MyAdventures.org Connect with Jyllea: Send an email: iwannaknowpod@gmail.com TikTok: @jylle.a Instagram: @jylle.a Twitter: @jylle_a Join the I Wanna Know Patreon: Patreon.com/IWKpodcast Terms of Use

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eSwatini

Capital Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2022 55:03

For over 10 years, Capital has been sending teams to eSwatini, Africa (formerly Swaziland) through partnerships with Adventures in Missions (AIM) and local on-the-ground missionaries. This episode brings eSwatini to us! Hear from Bheki Motsa, a local Swazi who rose from within AIM's local Leadership Development program, and Greg Mullins, from AIM's US office.

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Dumsane Tembe: Liberalism or Liberation and Swaziland

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 8, 2022 47:29

Mr. Dumsane Tembe comes to the platform to talk about confusing liberal democracy with liberation in Swaziland. Mr. Tembe has a master's in political science. He is a governance specialist, and political analyst, has experience in public policy development in RSA, writer, columnist, and blogger (Kunjalo D.co.za). He is doing his Ph.D. on the relationship between political leadership and government performance. Some of Mr. Tembe's views and talking points in this episode are Swaziland and political negotiation, and liberalism versus liberation. Tembe believes that “If you are fighting for liberation, you don't fight for dialogue, you fight for freedom.” If there are proper revolutionaries in Swaziland, they should intensify the struggle and not prioritize the dialogue. A dialogue is a smooth way of sustaining the status quo – it doesn't bring change – a good example is South Africa. If the struggle is not won in the bush, it will not be won on the table – a fact to be learned from the South African struggle – a fact that has repeated itself. His view on liberalism is that in liberal democracy there is more propaganda and make-belief than the actual substance of freedom. Liberalism creates phony equality. Liberal democracy is unsustainable in a society of abject poverty such as Swaziland. Liberal democracy is about the rules of the political game not improving the lives of the people. Swaziland lacks servant leadership and it only has a parasitic leadership and needs a system that centers a Swazi citizen as the primary beneficiary. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

Dr. Jabulane Matsebula: On Good Governance and Swaziland

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2022 42:08

Dr. Jabulani Matsebula returns to the show to converse with me about Good Governance relative to Swaziland. Dr. Matsebula has a Ph.D. in political sociology. He has held various positions in academia and government in Australia, including international multilateral engagement in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), G20, and OECD. He is also a founding member of PUDEMO one of the largest liberation political formations in Swaziland. We begin the discussion on the broader and complex concept of democracy and how it should be understood in the Kingdom of Swaziland. After this highlight, we zeroed things down to the main subject of this episode – good governance – the cornerstone of democracy. On this subject, Dr. Matsebula expounds on the enablers of good governance in general. This set the tone for Dr. Matsebula to respond to the critical question: Is democracy possible under a constitutional monarchy system dominated by the Dlamini royal family dynasty? Our guest makes it clear that the institution of the Swazi monarchy is irrelevant in Swazi politics. Hence Swaziland has a debt of R 26.9 billion. If the monarchy is maintained post-liberation, it is likely that it will pollute the new political landscape, says Dr. Matsebula. The government of the monarch rates terribly against the principles of good governance, and this bad governance is founded on king Sobhuza II's 1973 proclamation (royal coup). We also give an analysis of the African culture – Ubuntu –as having the wherewithal to found good governance. Hence good governance is based on universal principles, not a European concept. By way of concluding this episode, Dr. Matsebula gives an outline of key factors that would underpin post-liberation democracy namely: Annual GDP growth of 6 percent or above. Infrastructure development and job creation as a high priority. Reduced unemployment rate to a single digit and set a trend toward full employment Improved healthcare service – investment in new healthcare infrastructure as a priority. Significant progress on transitioning the economy to digital production and services through improved access to high speed internet. Improved fiscal management through smart and targeted public investment Transformation of the public sector into an ethical professional body committed to serving the government of the day and the public. Improved quality of education and access. Efficiency and honesty in government supported by a system of checks and balances, accountability, and transparency. A functioning multi-party democracy evidenced by the separation of powers, collaboration between the three arms of government and active multi-party participation. Reduced poverty and increased access to opportunities for all. No one left behind or held back in the true spirit of Ubuntu and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. therefore I am.' --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

Episode 43: Eswatini

Young History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2022 22:10

A country within a country within a continent is a way to describe the small country formerly known as Swaziland. This country has had a long history with many people groups coming into it and influencing it. However, it has always seemed to get the short end of the stick since colonial times. Nonetheless, this country holds the story of the Swazi people. This is Eswatini.

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Swazi Dlamini and Tshepo Mngoma Performing at ECG Church

Prophet Shepherd Bushiri Official

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 25:37

Swazi Dlamini and Tshepo Mngoma Performing at ECG Church

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Sandile Bhembe: King Sobhuza II Cunning Traditionalism

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2022 48:38

My guest in this episode is Sandile Bhembe - a Swazi historian, business analyst, political activist, and member of the Peoples United Democratic Party (one of the political parties in Swaziland). Our discussion is on King Sobhuza II and his cunning traditionalism/elite culture based on the controversial belief that the people of Swaziland are Swazis before they are Africans. The highlights of our talk are: The famed and much promulgated King Sobhuza II as one who has single-handedly gotten the Swazi people independence from Britain. After the loss of the case in the Privy Council, Sobhuza II “changed his tactic and altered his persona refashioning himself into an arch-traditionalist.” He used traditionalism/“Elite culture” as a basis of his political legitimacy and as a spear against political opponents or Swazi dissent. How fear of modem African nationalism and majority rule united the tribal authorities (Sobhuza II's camp) and the white community/settlers - including the advent of political parties, leading to Sobhuza II's coup of 1973, Dr. Ambrose Zwane case, and 60 days detention, etc. How in the 1930s and 1940s Sobhuza II began to strengthen and consolidate his cultural hegemony. Bhembe gives the genesis, evolution, and historical background of Tinkhundla. Sobhuza II, prior to the April 1973 Decree had begun developing an army to counter his “lifelong mistrust of police loyalty,” as a motivation to establish political control. The monarch is an outdated backward and very expensive project. The irrationality of the claim of section 80 of Swaziland's Constitution (2005) on decentralization of power and authority. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

Sophie Willan on Home

All About Sound

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2022 35:09

Which sounds transport you home? Lemn is joined by BAFTA award-winning writer, actor, comedian and creator of the BBC's Alma's Not Normal, Sophie Willan, to ask this question. Together, they listen to stand-out recordings from the British Library Sound Archive (see credits below) to investigate what home means to us. From Sophie's thoughts on Lancashire phrases disappearing, to her memories of growing up in the care system, to a forgotten love of George Formby, the archive inspires a fascinating conversation. This episode includes historical interviews that express the language and opinions of people recorded at that time. Recordings in the episode in order of appearance: A selection of phrases from the British Library's The Evolving English WordBank. This is a collection of words and phrases, contributed by visitors to the Library's Evolving English exhibition in 2010/11 who were asked to submit a word or phrase they felt was somehow ‘special' in their variety of English. 1 - Barmpot - someone who's very silly (Glasgow) British Library shelfmark: C1442/1118 2 - Get the messages - to go shopping (Northern Ireland, County Down) British Library shelfmark: C1442/05498 3 - As wick as a flea - as bright as a button (Oldham, Lancashire) and Dead Hook - a villain (Oldham, Lancashire) British Library shelfmark: C1442/6017 A conversation about adoption between Swazi and her youngest son Khushbir. The recording was made as part of the Listening Project for the BBC in 2017 © BBC. British Library shelfmark: C1500/1394/01 An interview with Joe Baxter speaking in 1992 about Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne and the area's redevelopment in the 1970s with the construction of the Byker Wall. This was recorded by Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums and was digitised as part of the Unlocking our Sound Heritage project. British Library shelfmark: UTWAM011/3 Sally Poole remembering her childhood in Kent as captured by the BBC in 1999 © BBC, recorded as part of the Millennium Memory Bank. British Library shelfmark: C900/07623 A conversation recorded in 1978 between two women, Maureen and Pam, shortly after moving into high rise council houses in London. This interview is from a radio series created by the Inner London Education Authority and the BBC. It was found in the London Metropolitan Archives and was digitised as part of the Unlocking our Sound Heritage project. British Library shelfmark: ULMA005/13 Ilkley Moor baht'at recorded by the BBC in 1940 British Library shelfmark: C604/111 C1-9

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Pius Vilakati: Class Struggle in Swaziland: Pre-and-Post-Independence Swazi Socio-Economic Conditions

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2022 58:39

Pius Vilakati is the guest for this episode. Pius is a political activist and International Secretary of the Communist Party of Swaziland. He is a political exile, resident in South Africa. He is a former president of the Student Representative Council (SRC), a student board, of the University of Swaziland. In this episode, we explore the subject of Class Struggle in Swaziland: Pre-and-Post-Independence Swazi Socio-Economic Conditions. We discuss: Pre-colonial socio-economic conditions in Swaziland and Europeans' integration with the native aristocracy for the exploitation of the masses. The Swazi resistance to colonialism The establishment of a capitalist state in Swaziland, class struggle, and the rise of trade unions in Swaziland - moving from feudalism and communalism to capitalism. Post-independence and neo-colonialization of Swaziland The Swazi royalty cooperated with colonizers to oppress the Swazi people. How Sobhuza II's sabotaged the workers' movement to benefit the royal family (Swazi aristocrats) and European settlers. Monarchical absolutism. How Sobhuza II undermined the Azanian/South African liberation struggle through. Like all Africans, the people of Swaziland have always fought for the control of their land. In neo-colonialism, the colonizers will give you “freedom”, the flag, elections, national anthem, parliament, etc., but they control your economy and policies. Swaziland is still a source of raw materials for exploitation and a labour force for the exploitation of our people for the benefit of foreign capital – e.g., the textile industry. In Swaziland we need a democracy where ownership of the country and means of production are at the hands of the people – that means a truly sovereign state independent of foreign influence. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mpilo-nkambule/support

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Communist Party of Swaziland General Secretary Thokozane Kenneth Kunene Interview: Apartheid, Tinkhundla, the need for Communism in Swaziland, and more

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Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2022 97:38

We interview Communist Party of Swaziland General Secretary Thokozane Kenneth Kunene on the history of the Tinkhundla system, the ties between the Swazi monarchy and Apartheid, and more. Check out our book drive here: https://twitter.com/thecadrejournal/status/1519041657638957060

Urgent Statement from Swaziland National Association of Teachers Comrade Mcolisi Ngcamphalala on the Swazi Police Intimidation of Comrade Mbongwa Dlamini

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2022 3:07

Yesterday, a critical situation occurred when the SNAT President Mbongwa Dlamini's house at Helemisi was surrounded by the Swazi police. There were shootings outside his house and the paramilitary OSSU was outside the premises. We carry an update on what happened. Comrade Dlamini is safe now.

RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.

StocktonAfterClass

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2022 36:26

F. W. DeKlerk, the last White President of South Africa. The Logic of Apartheid, and how De Klerk's perspective evolved F. W. De Klerk died in November of 2021. He came out of the very heart of the Afrikaaner establishment, and was firmly entrenched in the secret society known as the Broederbund (brotherhood). Whites were about 15% of the South African population and the Afrikaaners (of Dutch heritage) were about 60% of the white population. They controlled all the major positions of power in the Republic. And yet by the 1980s many Afrikaaners could see that the reality was changing, and they would have to change with it, or be swept away. F. W. De Klerk became the instrument of that change. This may well be the only place where you will ever hear a sympathetic discussion of the logic of apartheid, which was widely condemned in America, especially among those of us who had studied the South African political system. Remember that there are other podcasts on Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela. And one called Thoughts of a Former Terrorist, discussing my activism on this issue. Names: Botha, Mulder, Terms used: apartheid, Stellenbosch, verligte, verkrampte, Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana, Ndebele, Swazi. Transkei, Zululand, Professor Jeppe,

An Uprising in Eswatini

The Delve

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 31:58

Africa's last absolute monarchy, Eswatini, has seen months of ongoing pro-democracy protests. Each one has been met with deadly force by a police and military that answer directly to the King. This week we speak with Thulani Maseko, human rights lawyer and pro-democracy advocate about the situation on the ground in this southern African nation. Support the eSwatini Solidarity Fund @eswatinisolidarity if you can and share this story far and wide. Without international pressure the King will continue to oppress the Swazi people through violence and terror.

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Hazards: Stories about encountering danger in the field

The Story Collider

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2021 25:40

Part 1: In his early twenties, Jonathan Feakins goes above and beyond for his job as a West Nile virus mosquito technicianPart 2: While working as a coral reef biologist in Panama in 1989, Nancy Knowlton and her young daughter are taken into the custody of the Panamanian military when the U.S. invades.Jonathan Feakins is just some nerd who has tried to spend his life wandering strange places, reading obscure books, doing weird science, petting adorable animals, fighting the good fight, and having wonderful friends. He somehow has a species of earthworm named after him, and once got kicked out of an all-you-can-eat restaurant (for eating all he could eat). He first learned the power of a good story from his grandmother, as she regaled him with tales about her childhood pet crocodile (whose name was Baby), or about the time she (accidentally) cleared out a biker bar with a Swazi bible student named Enoch. You can learn more about his questionable life choices at bookwormcity.com.Nancy Knowlton has been a scientist with the Smithsonian since 1984 and is now a scientist emerita, first in Panama and most recently at the National Museum of Natural History in DC. She's also been a professor at Yale and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she founded the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation. Her work on coral reefs has taken her literally around the world, and she has spent so much time underwater that she long ago lost count of the hours. She has been a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the author of Citizens of the Sea, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Ocean Portal website. Despite the glut of bad news these days, you can find her @seacitizens talking about #OceanOptimism and #EarthOptimism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Episode 24 – The foundation of the Xhosa Kingdom, Tshawe, Phalo, Gcaleka and Rharhabe.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2021 18:18

This is episode 24, the Foundation of the Xhosa Kingdom, the heroes Tshawe and Phalo. I've made use of a number of books and documents in the series so far, but Jeff Perez's House of Phalo is probably my favourite source material mainly because he lectured me at Rhodes University in the mid-1980s. His book on the Xhosa is still the go-to research document and I'm leaning quite heavily on the work for this episode. Let's take ourselves back to Xhosa pre-history, that time in early oral tradition where myths and legends are difficult to separate from reality. The Xhosa people of today think of themselves as being the common descendents of a great hero named Xhosa who lived many hundreds of years ago. Some believe he was the son of Mnguni who gave the name to the Nguni language – and brothers of other kingdoms such as the pre-Zulu Ndwandwe or Mthethwa, as well as the Swazi, or the Zulu themselves. The word Xhosa is a Khoi word meaning ‘Angry Men' and Vete who is the main historian of the nearby Mpondomise people believes they were named by the amaThembu. Remember we met the amaThembu last episode, the people who lived on the boundaries of the Xhosa and were regarded as poorer because their land was less fertile. The earliest historical occurrance specific to the Xhosa was the installation of the amaTshawe as the royal family – and the story of Tshawe is probably the best-known of all Xhosa traditions. John Soga wrote about this in his work South Eastern Bantu which is a highly respected original document outlining the people of Xhosaland.

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Episode 24 – The foundation of the Xhosa Kingdom, Tshawe, Phalo, Gcaleka and Rharhabe.