What's on Mthoko's mind?

I'm wondering how measuring time first came about & thought of sundials as probably the first concepts of a watch & at night they'd probably watch the stars to tell the time. In Africa, the Ishango bone of Uganda ( 9000-6500 BC ) & the Lebombo Bone of Swaziland ( 42 000 BC ) are probably the oldest time measuring artefacts in the world.  But why isn't a minute just simply 100 seconds, an hour 100 minutes? This would make a day 8 hours & 64 minutes. I think this comes from ancient civilisations who didn't have the time measuring luxuries we have today. If we would change to this 8 hour day of mine, many would probably miss the comfort of a 24 hour day anyway. Maybe I should just coin this as the  Mthoko Mpofana day scale & start making devices that measure the day with 8 hours & 64 minutes & see if anyone is keen to buy into it. 

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I watch a lot of things on YouTube & I've seen a lot on black American culture from Latin America, North America & a little on the Caribbean & I think I do have an idea on how black people in the Americas go about their lives. I was recently watching an Akon interview where he claimed America wasn't built for black Americans & I imagine some people might think he's backwards or not progressive like how people claim I'm backwards when I say Africa's borders were not made by Africans. But I guess each to his/her own, some people probably don't mind living in a system that was not created by them but the concept of having someone outside your tribe/nation telling you how to live, let alone someone of another race doing so, was probably inconcievable before Africa's colonisation. I come across several videos & online talks of an "Exodus" of black people leaving America going to Africa exampli gratia . I love the idea of black A...

Yes, there is a group campaigning for a sovereign Zulu state. Several groups, in fact. No, the IFP or Zulu royal house are not spearheading the movement this time but common folk like you & I. Whether it would be wise for the Zulu royal house or the IFP to involve themselves in a movement campaigning for a sovereign state is unclear. But they, the IFP & royals,  obviously do know of the movement/s & I assume are prudent enough to know when or when not to side with such movements. What may have seemed like a joke to many initially has become a viable concept for the development of Zulu people & their land. Other groups in South Africa might find this selfish & that view is understandable but then that must mean Lesotho, Swaziland & Botswana are selfish. Argument ended. While most of these movements have likely not been to see His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini, a delegation from a Durban-based group was said to have been sent t...

I'm sure we all chuckle at & mock the antics of the leaders of this land but let's get serious, what is the direction we are going? What is the future of South Africa? I write this article with genuine concern because I believe we're heading in the wrong direction. I believe we're heading down a path we really do not want to go. Whether it's the communist philosophies of the ruling party that BondStaat.com (domain expired) so frequently highlights that often include tribalism, unfair discrimination & an odd attachment to Apartheid tactics & legislature or just odd faux pas that lead a country into ruin; the leadership of the land definitely leaves anyone with enough knowledge very, very worried. It's said that to determine the future, one has to look at past patterns & this looks very dark for our collective future as South Africans. Personally, I began getting worried about South Africa in 2009 when President Zuma took charge of the land...

So, I'm watching this video  on why Americans think they suck  at soccer & they have qualified for every World Cup since 1986 except the last one in 2018, recently won the Concacaf Cup & beat South Africa not so long ago in the Mandela Cup in South Africa. We should be more upset in South Africa as a footballing country that we only last qualified for a FIFA World Cup in 2002 & rarely qualify for AFCON tournaments. So in this blog I hope to analyse why South Africa "sucks" at football. I think branding has a lot to do with things; I remember Former President Thabo Mbeki claiming our national team has a weak name in " Bafana Bafana " which means "Boys Boys" or colloquially "Our Boys" in Zulu. I do believe that a national team needs strong branding as well. How much branding plays into the psyche of players & management is debatable. While it could be embarrasing giving a team a strong brand & them failing everytime, the ...