A bit of rest

This blog is created at home chilling with mom under the shade after 16 December 2009

after the departure of all friends, and tired experiencing the scotching sun, humid air,
i pulled off the laptop and gave it a thought to rather thank every single soul that God send to come across to make an impact in my life.

As we are heading towards the end this i feel it is rightful to do so to acknowledge the effort that every person added to help to grow this man.

For every frawn, smile, heartaches, headaches, pains of all sorts. we owe it to our self to smile again
we made it.

Would like to praise and thank God for this yr. tell u wat this yr seemed too short, hoping for the longer one a year later

God bless

Re a Leboga

Just recovering from Heritage day, What a day. Got to be with friends and celebrate in style Ubuntu(Humanity) way. Realeboga botlhe ba ba itumeletseng leno letsatsi le rona, mme ka lemoga sengwe: Bana ba kgwale ba bitsana ka melodi.

Our former and current Deputy President Kgalema Motlante addressed the people in Limpopo and declared the theme for this year's Heritage day as "Celebrating South African Craft, Our Heritage" and finally qouted one of Don Mattera's poem:

"Afrika, Afrique
Beautiful mother, beloved Continent,
This is your time, your moment, your century
Etched on the golden scroll of history
Afrika, this is your time,
Your century, your right
Afrikaans arises, unite!
You are the architects of your fate
The victims of self-hate;
Bring enlightment, renewal and dignity
No more "sorrow songs' but anthems of victory
Astound, confound with unconquerable might,"

This will surely remind us that, as we celebrate all our achievements in human activities, let us do so knowing that craft, as art, it is basically for human history and it is precious as the air we breathe.

Well to Trev. thanks again about the tips on how to blog

Chilla nathi !!

Tomorrow it is my favourite holiday and i advice that we celebrate it in style. check the new look Dumelang Batswana

Enjoy Heritage Day

"Within a broader social and political context, the day's events…are a powerful agent for promulgating a South African identity, fostering reconciliation and promoting the notion that variety is a national asset as opposed to igniting conflict.

"Heritage has defined as "that which we inherit: the sum total of wild life and scenic parks, sites of scientific or historical importance, national monuments, historic buildings, works of art, literature and music, oral traditions and museum collections together with their documentation."

(former) President Mandela once stated:

"When our first democratically-elected government decided to make Heritage Day one of our national days, we did so because we knew that our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our new nation.

We did so knowing that the struggles against the injustice and inequities of the past are part of our national identity; they are part of our culture. We knew that, if indeed our nation has to rise like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of division and conflict, we had to acknowledge those whose selfless efforts and talents were dedicated to this goal of non-racial democracy."

This is powerful coming from one of the oppressed, these icon had suffered and ready to build the new rainbow nation.

Mokodue go tsoswa yo o itsosang!

Tatso ya Setswana "Great taste of Setswana"

in the beginning i promised to involve idioms and proverbs to embrace my love and understanding of our very own Language, since it is heritage month and I'm proud to have a solid background based on my roots.

check this"phudufudu e e thamo telele, ebatwa ke molamu o sa e lebana" and " Nonyane e e mephuphutho mebe e iphatlha ka diphuka e le tsa yona" or anyway i was just simply saying "be careful not to jump into other people's business without their concern or you might suffer the consequences" .

This i've learned over and over and people in Jozi believe this it is just a myth, but tell u what my brothers and sisters this is real. ask for tip or advice so that you may not jump before the gun.

Molaya kgosi o a bo a itaela!!

Hmmmmm howz that for the lingo !!!!!!!!

Sneak preview

just a glimpse of things that are hapenning in my life.

(1) Took my Dad home due to medical reason
(2) I don't own weekends anymore but we do.
(3) The sunday evening session helps to rediscover my long lost life. Thanx to the diverse people that we get together with.
(4) God blessed me with the people that i can share things with. Love with no Limits



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Show goes on

Well friends, De's been much going on in my life things that always gives goosebumps, or sometimes makes me happy when i am about to blog, tell you what my life has many things to solve, work on, initiate at this stage but to cut the story to the chase, My life it's like real roller coaster entertainment. Sometimes things get's to be ok, sometimes not.

And life goes on.........................

Wow after such a busy weekend, well my soul feel at peace, i had tascle with my heart concerning crossing the boundaries, i had this belief that i won't participate in any goodwill activity as long it is not for my community. After deciding to go to Doulos, this became an eye opener that the are many people out there that needs our love and care. well if you can't be with the one's you love, love the one you with.




kids at doulos have touched my heart,

well the question that i had in mind after saturday is this

why we normally became so ignorant to care for the needy?
The kids at Doulos do they understand that one day their names will be written on the memory stone?, but i was reminded that this can happen to anyone.
although we are not infected, we are all affected by HIV/AIDS

but all in all good experience to be with them.

Black and White combination

Who do we remind you of, just a clue: two singers
Tell you what, He is white and i am black
but guess what, We are human beings created in the image of God.
day and night destined to follow Christ
Colour doesn't matter anymore. just a rem: we can't ignore the fact that colours exist
Cause they are there to compliment each other.

Heita Hola mlungu wa kithi

Sundays and after all soccer again

Well i don't enjoy missing sunday night sessions, because there is alot that i personally take out from it and jus hope that our input makes a difference to the group.

As for last week it we suffered our first defeat, beaten by well organised North Point church.

anyway for all of IAAF and their friends check this one, we train them whilest still young, now please get used to it. we've got evidence we play too much, we take our sports very serious

Yeepee !!!! i'm back again

Since from Apartheid Musseum i didn't blog, well to keep my fellow friends guessing but now i'm back on track to do the writting part.

Apartheid Musseum what an atmosphere, on the day i had mixed feelings about being around whites, I believe that if the whole information was captured, we woudn't have to be talking about Reconciliation today but only trying to make another hole in the other bucket. Maybe it is by purpose that things comes to light every and anytime so that the cost cannot be to high once again. But as Nathi said, I felt much better or at ease that i am not white. the songs of struggle reminded me of how things used to be, the youth taking matters seriously unlike today.

but later on meal, soccer and rugby and friends made my day
though we had " Long walk to Food".

well i don't know whether these might help especially if we want to adapt some and use in our daily lives
see http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/charter.html and http://www.sahrc.org.za/old_website/bill_of_rights.htm

Woman's Day

if your not aware. 9 August it is Women's Day. one of the biggest day in our lives.

Why ?

this day commemorates 9 August 1956 when women participating in a national march petitioned against pass laws (legislation that required African persons to carry a document on them to ‘prove’ that they were allowed to enter a ‘white area’).

Imagine over 20 000 women of all races and ages from every corner of South Africa marching together towards the Union Buildings in Pretoria. On 9 August 1956 these women were marching in protest against the pass laws that proposed even further restrictions on the movements of women.

The Federation of South African Women (Fedsaw) organised the March, led by four women; Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa, Sophy Williams and Lilian Ngoyi. The leaders delivered petitions to Prime Minister JG Strijdom's office within the Union Buildings. Women throughout the country had put their names to these petitions indicating their anger and frustration at having their freedom of movement restricted by the hated official passes.

To conclude the Women's March the women sang freedom songs such as Nkosi sikeleli Afrika, however, the song that became the anthem of the march was "Wathint' abafazi, Strijdom!"

wathint' abafazi,
wathint' imbokodo,
uza kufa!

[When] you strike the women,
you strike a rock,
you will be crushed [you will die]!

The march was a resounding success and we recognise the bravery of these women who risked arrest, detention and banning by declaring 9 August National Women’s Day.

Labotlhano wa bokhutlo ba beke bo bolele

it is absolutely perfect that i came back just to write this blog today, dedicating this whole weekend to Women, Jaaka re itse gore ba tshwara thipa ka fa bogaleng. mosadi wa thari entsho, yo o maitshwaro a mantle, yo o eseng thola, mme ele mmelega dikhutsana yo o tlhokwang gompieno. moAferika tota, Mosadi a sa laolwe ke phenya tlhong yo a diatla dimabolela, yo o ereng a fete kwa khotung a dire tshabatshaba.. Mosadi wa mmala wa sebilo, tshetlana e e gosenang go kgaotswa fa o e bokwa, le fa go ka botswa go re ke mang yo o bokwang fa?, karabo ya me etla nna nnosi, Ke boka Tsala ya me !!!!! Enjoy Women's Day

Blast from the past

well it has been a good game playing as Blast from the past players and we hoped for a win on the day, unfortunately first half we were 3-0 down but after words of encouragement during half -time, we played as a unit then finally Won the match by 9-7
well done boys you deserve a crown.

just of bit of extra practice we would be invincible. Hola Magents check-out

We rock

Frank Talk

"Black Souls in white Skin"

Very insteresting part in this letter

"First the black-white circles
are almost always a creation of white liberals. As a testimony
to their claim of complete identification with the blacks, they
call a few "intelligent and articulate" blacks to "come around
for tea at home", where all present ask each other the same
old hackneyed question "how can we bring about change in
South Africa?" The more such tea-parties one calls the more
of a liberal he is and the freer he shall feel from the guilt that
harnesses and binds his conscience. Hence he moves
around his white circles - whites-only hotels, beaches,
restaurants and cinemas -with a lighter load, feeling that he
is not like the rest of the others. Yet at the back of his mind is
a constant reminder that he is quite comfortable as things
stand and therefore should not bother about change.
Although he does not vote for the Nats (now that they are in
the majority anyway), he feels quite secure under the
protection offered by the Nats and subconsciously shuns the
idea of a change. This is what demarcates the liberal from
the black world. The liberals view the oppression of blacks
as a problem that has to be solved, an eye sore spoiling an
otherwise beautiful view. From time to time the liberals make
themselves forget about the problem or take their eyes off
the eyesore. On the other hand, in oppression the blacks are
experiencing a situation from which they are unable to
escape at any given moment."

Honestly one would think that Steve is talking about things that are happening in nowadays to us.

Legale, ke lobaka ke sa buasane le lona dithuto tse dintsi tse kentseng ke tsamaya ke di ithuta mo malatsing ano, re na le setlhopha se se kopanang ka la tshipi lengwe le lengwe re leka go tobana le nnete e re dumelang gore e sa ntse a sa leletse ke dipoo. le ditsala re buasana ka buka ya ga Steve Bantu Biko (I write what i like) gape go na dintla tse di re ka ratang go di totobatsa go tshwana le Go tshela mo lefatsheng la tekatekano me re sa lebale kwa re tswang Dithuto tsa bogologolo, tseo re dumelang gore Bagologolo ba kgonne go ka di sireletsa kgatlanong le puso ya tlhaolele mme le ga re ka tlhoka kgomo gompieno gonne re di amogilwe, fa ele ngwao, puo, setso le tumelo ya seAfrika tsona di tla nna ikokotlelo ya rona. Gore re kgone go dirisana le basweu re ne ra nna le tirelo mo sontageng e fetileng e e maleba jaaka botsamaisi ba tirelo eo ene ele Kutlwana le kgarejwe ya gagwe Lebo mme ba dira felo la ga Trevor le nne le di karolo tse di fapaneng jaaka Ditilo tsa manobonobo go nne fela Basweu mme tse di tlwaelegileng go nne Bantsho, re ne ra seka seka nngwe ya dikwalo tsa ga Steve Biko tse di tlhageletseng ka August(Phatwe) le September(Lweetse) ngwageng wa 1970. Setlhogo ene ele

Black Souls in White Skins?

Phathutshedzo

i had a privilege to meet phathutshedzo Sam's daughter
What a beauty!! Wow

What a Cutty
Just only for
Sam and Keneoue

Ga gona felo je le monate go tshwana le go nna gae le ba lelapa mo molelong mo kgweding ya Seetebosigo. Seane - Molelo o fisa baori Feel the fire

Setswana Session

Dumelang Batswana

Jaanong ke nako ya go ithuta Setswana Loleme lwa bogosing,
Now it is time learn Setswana Proverbs

Seane- Simega kolobe ka botlhale e se re ka maphasusu makgobedung a sa le nao.

Tlhaloso- dira tsotlhe ka go akofa gonne fa o sa ikatega sentle, tsotle di ka sala di go lebane
In English: Do things wisely, so that you might not suffer repercussions.

Ke mafoko ame ao

well what a weekend we've been through. There is nothing less than perfectly done meeting of friend playing Soccer( 1 Pale "meaning 1 goal post") & boerewors rolls
at Trevors house. oooh! what a weekend because now i'm suffering from muscle strain due to lack training. i can just add words like HONE HOLE HOBE to describe the event.

Check Out Rapsody's New T-shirt under constraction R-a-D
for safety of the brand, I will not explain what it means until the shirt arrives.
just for the sake of copyright infringements

Lo a lalediwa go nna le Rapsody

welcome to Orapeleng's world

finally its here, dumelang batswana's main objective is to keep in touch with this beautiful language Setswana, Basically i would like to help more in setswana language especially to the youth

i'm proud gore ke Motswana, ke tswa felo je le teiweng Lethabong.

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Itumelleng letsatsi leno la magorogoro mašwa

O fitlhile Mokgatla