Is Our Anger Perhaps Misdirected ?

Is Our Anger Perhaps Misdirected ? Written by 

ZOLANI NKOMO

In the fictitious Shaka Zulu fantasy TV Series derived from Ed Harpers imagination. There is one scene that captured me.

King Shaka is sitting by a campfire with a white settler (nami angazi kanjani uShaka wabloma no mlungu  baringa isi ngamla)

Shaka asks; do you have beautiful skies like this in your land ?
He replies; no Shaka, we share the same sky but you have a much better view of it here.

Kinga Shaka proceeds to inquire about the future of our land if they are to be our co-inhabitants.

He; we will live besides each other, but far apart from each other, there is much land we can all peaceably live together and share in the fruits of the land.
King Shaka; what happens generations later when my descendants and yours can no longer live peaceably together, will your great grand children all return home or will they come to love this place as their own so much that they lay claim to it?

This I believe is a metaphor for what really happened here. The descendants of the Dutch identify themselves as Africans (Afrikaaner) and their Afrikaanerdom is supposedly an expression of their African-Hood.

While they inhabited our land and stole our identity. We became known as black the void of all colour and while there is no country or continent called black we lost our land claim.

"When the settler came they had the bible and we had the land. They made us pray with our eyes closed and when we opened them they had the land and we had the bible" - Joseph Kenyatta

And even so the Afrikaaners were also duped. Figuring that political power was the key to their to salvation. When the British left all the Gold and Diamond fields were signed over to them, they designated political power to a safer alternative the Afrikaaner, a strategic decision sorting out their differences and finding a common enemy in a group of people who could pose a potentially greater threat if given the power because they are the rightful heirs.

The Afrikaaner failed to foresee a future where the people will govern. This unfair exchanged birthed a society which would be the most racially tempestuous and most violent outside of a war-zone.

Afrikaaners and South African Africans are uncomfortable amongst one another because we're all fighting for a plate with crumbs on it. Not understanding that it did not begin with race but the economy. There are no agricultural billionaires in South Africa the farms don't have as much money as the mines.

Zolani Tshemega Nkomo