{"id":16301,"date":"2012-11-05T02:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/11\/nkandlagate\/"},"modified":"2012-11-05T02:31:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:31:25","slug":"nkandlagate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/nkandlagate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkandlagate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the DA led by Helen Zille<\/a> swept towards the President Jacob Zuma compound known as Nkandla<\/a> social media erupted with name calling, racist and political taunts today.<\/p>\n

One of the tweets by @ras6, in response to Helen Zille tweeting an image of Zuma\u2019s neighbour (image below), that caught my eye is kind of a puzzle to me \u2013 what do you think Mchenge is saying?<\/p>\n

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\u201cbulala\u2019bathakathi\u201d \u201c@helenzille<\/a>: A view of Nkandla from the hill we are on #Nkandlagate<\/a> http:\/\/t.co\/J1lEIjFW<\/a>\u201c<\/span>
\nabout 15 hours ago<\/a> via Twitter for BlackBerry\u00ae<\/a><\/em>Reply<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Retweet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>Favorite<\/strong><\/span><\/a>
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I presume that this is a reference to an early conflict that Zulu Chief Dingane had with Piet Retief, the leader of the voortrekkers, during November 1837. In return for their recovering some stolen cattle, Dingane signed a deed of cession of lands (written in English) to the Voortrekkers. After two days of feasting, on 6 February 1838, the chief had Retief and his diplomatic party killed. At the same time, Dingane\u2019s forces ambushed and killed Retief\u2019s trek party, about 500 Boers, including men, women and children. The Boers called this the Weenen massacre. The nearby present-day town of Weenen (Dutch for \u201cweeping\u201d) was named by early settlers in memory of the massacre.<\/p>\n

The killing was precipitated by Dingane getting up and yelling \u201cBulalani abathakathi\u201d (\u201ckill the magicians\u201d) and his warriors immediately killed the Boer representatives outside the royal kraal on the execution rock called Matiwane.<\/p>\n

\"Bulalani<\/a><\/p>\n

Left: Zulu Warriors pose in front of their huts after killing of Voortrekkers. Right: The abode of Jacob Zuma\u2019s \u2018neighbour\u2019.<\/p>\n

One can\u2019t help but thinking that the wealth and care gap between Zulu Chief and foot soldier has been widened to such an extent that something will break soon. Sir, Mr President, Owner of Chez Nkandla \u2013 listen to the plea of South Africans to serve THEM and not your narow cliche! <\/p>\n

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As the DA led by Helen Zille swept towards the President Jacob Zuma compound known as Nkandla social media erupted with name calling, racist and political taunts today. One of the tweets by @ras6, in response to Helen Zille tweeting an image of Zuma\u2019s neighbour (image below), that caught my eye is kind of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1289,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-16301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mype","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}