Ubuntu Artwork

You know Mandulo is the jack of all trade, im the musician, herbalists and blogger at the same time I'm also a

teacher of Art an independent teacher for my own subject or carriculum called Art and Craft.. When I'm talking about Ubuntu Artwork I'm talking about my full time job.. Something that I do for living

Uma uwudinga lomsebenzi you can contact me on my cell phone it 0656724488 you can call or whatsapp me strictly business only.. And again your support will be appreciated

you can even search for me on internet Mandulo IVirgo Ngcobo/lakwaNgcobo is the name you can search

Depression is real!!

Depression has killed alot of people and it will continue doing so because many people don't believe on its existence uma u tshela abantu ukuthi udepressed bathi uyatetema so that cause people to die inside afraid to speak out.. Afraid because people are being judgemental.. This is what I need to warn you about becareful of the words you utter some words can build someone while the other can destroy.. Ulwimi lufana nothi lukamentshisi luyinto encane ekwazi ukwenza umonakalo omkhulu.. So asiwaqaphele amagama esiwaphimisayo nesiwaqondisa kwabanye sphinde siyiqaphele indlela esphatha ngayo abantu ngoba asibazi ubunzima ababhekene nabo or abadlule kukhona.. Thina okwethu ukfaka I support if kukukhlula lokho just walk away. 

This is what I've learned in this past week's that never judge anyone especially those you never been on their shoes.. Many of you don't know how it feels like to sleep on the empty stomach but they are quickly to judge those who have been there... Some of you don't know how it feels like to have nothing while your neighbors and friends having it all.. Some of you don't know how it feels like to grow up in the family where parents always fighting.. Siphuma ezindaweni ezingafani bafwethu let's us try to be sensitive to each other love and respect each other 

 #UbuntuBami

Change is very important

You know it easy to convince people to do wrong than convincing them to see the light they rather fight you or even kill you... Some years ago our fellow Afrikans were taken from Afrika and sold to the place they never dreamed of... You see they first convince our leaders that our people were born to be bound in chain, trained to serve and protect or kill if it necessary.. Mandulo is teaching people the other way but nobody seems to care, nobody listened to what ihave said.. Today our leaders who take oath to protect us they are the ones misleading us, using and abusing us... However we are the people our voice matter.. We must not allow government or anyone who claims to be the leader to rob us our rights to be who we want to be without being told and monitored on how to live your life... You see nothing has change things are still the same maybe it a change of methods but the strategy is still the same.. Those who sit on high chairs are the ones playing our leaders like strings.. Us to them we are just pawn on the chess board.. Take a look at the leadership we have a very old and layz people in government sectors in parliament they are old refuse to retire.. When serious decisions being taken some of these elders were sleeping on the time of work that a signs of being old.. They have no faith in the Youths they say Youths are careless can't lead but my question is why they don't teach them to be the foundation of the future to be the great leaders? Inkinga yabo umona bafuna ukudla bodwa.. I've seen comrades fighting for their leaders who get paid every month for doing nothing while they getting nothing but death for helping them. They use them and dispose them when they are done... Someone like me state love to hate... They kill people like us who make sure that people are becoming aware of what is happening around them.. Take a look on what happens to Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe he was sentenced 28 years for try to libarate Black people for trying to awake them Robert Sobukwe was a South African hero who fought for freedom and libaration but they changed the character when the story was released and they gave us Mandela.. Mandela was their favorite man but not for Black's who suffer alot under apartheid government.. Steven Bantu Biko was murdered even today ababulali bakhe a akaze baboshwe... Steve Biko ubeyilona okhuthaza ukuzithanda kubantu bakithi nokuthi bangazenyezi futhi bangasabi ukukhuluma ngemizwa yakhe.. But in calendar they is not even a single day where this great leader was celebrated but yet we celebrate Mandela birthday, death day, release day... I remember the words of Samora Michelle when he says when you hear white people talking good about me just know that I have betrayed the revolution... So every great man in history books is not great at all.. Great people were among us they live with us but we never appreciate them even when they gone we quickly to forget them but their good deeds live forever.. You know some names are meant to live forever, others are meant to be known and to be forgotten at the same time... This blog yanamhlanje is about change it time we bring power to the people.. Together we can.. Together we undefeated and when we are together nothing is possible even the enemy can't do no harm to us when we are united.. When we allow ourselves to speak about matters that concern us.. Like how some few families end up owning gold mines when the gold belong to us all.. We need to question our leaders whom are claiming to serve us that how can they drive fancy cars eating expensive foods, living lavish life when the people that they are serving are poor.. Having no jobs, living in shacks.. This leaders must be hold accountable for the crimes that is happening because they have the power to stop it but instead they use that power to further corruption.. You might think im messing with you but here is the truth in South Afrika ubugebengu buyathandwa benziwa ama phoyisa, abefundisi, odokotela ngisho uhulumeni imbala.... And bonke abatholakala namacala okukhwabanisa ababoshwa knalokho banikwa izikhundla ezingaphezulu.. Police taking bribe s from criminals.. Lawyers spend years studying on how to manipulate people I use to believe that they are good and bad lawyers but lately I'm not so sure because Senzo Meyiwa was killed and even on this umbulali akakaboshwa so baphi labaMmeli abangachemile? Abakubona kuwumsebenzi wabo ukletha ubulungiswa hhayi ukfumbathiswa kthiwa abavale amehlo entweni engenzeka kunoma ngabe ubani kwabon abameli

Indians are Afrikan descendants

African-Indians, Indians of African origin. There are at least 20,000 of an African-origin ethnic tribe who have been living in near total obscurity in India for centuries. Descendants of Bantu people of East Africa, Siddi ancestors were largely brought to India by Arabs as early as the 7th Century, followed by the Portuguese and the British later on. Others were free people who came to India as merchants, sailors and mercenaries before the Portuguese slave trade went into overdrive. When slavery was abolished in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Siddis fled into the country’s thick jungles, fearing recapture and torture. These African first settlers in India were originally known as Habshis, which is Persian for Abyssinian (the former name of Ethiopia was Abyssinia). But those who rose through the ranks of royal retinue were honoured with the title Siddi, a possible etymon from the Arabic word for master, sayed/sayyid. It is not entirely clear when the use of the term Habshi declined and Siddi replaced it, but today, Siddi describes all people of African descent in India. Culled from the BBC 2016 documentary," India’s forgotten African tribe"

Meet Simphiwe Fortune Thabethe the Radio presenter

Umlazi born and based Radio presenter SIMPHIWE FORTUNE MBIZANA professionally known as SIMPHIWE FORTUNE has been in thw industry for quite sometimes now. "I noticed the love for Radio in 2011 when I was working for ITHEMBALABANTU CLINIC under TEST AND TREAT campaign. We use to use loud hailer to mobilize people to come and test for the HIV. Then my colegues suggested that I should be one who uses the Los hailer every time coz I have a beautiful voice like radio presenters."

At that particular time I did nothing to pursue a carrier. Infact i did nothing. Come 2016 this radio thing was bothering me in a way that I than decided to do live broadcast. Made some videos using my phone. Until 2017 where i decided to do a short caurse in Radio. I then went for audditions in Port Shepstone which were held in NPS CBD, by UGU YOUTH RADIO. i made it through i was then called for briefing we then started broadcasting.

Came back to Durban and I use to be a guest radio presenter on INTOKOZO FM before i got my first slot in 2018. Been working for INTOKOZO FM from 2018 did several shows ,like weekend breakfast, Drive, HIP HOP SHOW, and midday show just to name a few. INTOKOZO FM has been my home ever since, and to date i still enjoy working for it.

Simphiwe Fortune Thabethe ican call him community builder with no doubt the guy has open platform for a lot of upcoming artists h, he did offer them interviews and airplays.. To prove that he don't think for himself he even attend local events to show support for local and upcoming artists.. We do need presenters like him who knows that they are serving community not any way around. Much respect to the man Simphiwe Fortune Thabethe the man who always smiling, always willing to help where he can.. Let Jah bless him and everyone like him.

The history about Ntuzuma township

With a population of 114,231 (Census 2001), Ntuzuma is the youngest of the four "PINK" (Phoenix, Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu) programme townships, and was built by the Durban City in the 1970s.

The spatial and infrastructural developments of Ntuzuma have emerged incrementally in different sections, and have, to a large extent, influenced the varying service levels, political affiliations and tenure arrangements that prevail in the area. Large tracts of land are informally occupied due to the pressure for housing and its relative accessibility. With the RDP Housing Programme, a number of formal houses have been given to the people, which has contributed positively to the town's development plans. Ntuzuma exhibits a wide range of housing including some very up-market homes but also includes a large informal settlement. Ntuzuma's population is dominated by the working class. Ntuzuma Township[2] is 12 km from the Durban CBD; it consists of 99.5% of Black community and 0.5% of other. It is situated near KwaMashu, Inanda, and Phoenix areas.

33% of the community is youth (18–34), that make 40% young children between 1 and 17, and 27% are adults. Many of the youth attend schools in local areas. Others can afford to get entry in multi racial schools and model C schools. Sending a child to universities is every family's dream. Many do make it to tertiary, graduate and get jobs or start Businesses Dominating transportation systems are taxis (mini buses) and buses. However, there has been an increase in people using their private cars for transportation. There are 8 senior secondary schools, 12 primary schools, one technical college and a teachers’ center. There is also a police station, petrol station, clinic, two community halls, fire station, library, small claim court and a bus depot.

There are many recreational facilities such as a swimming pool, football fields and tennis court.

The history of KwaMashu township

KwaMashu is a township that is situated approximately 16 kilometres north of Durban, South Africa. This township’s history stretches as far back as the late 1800’s and is linked with the Scottish sugarcane farmer and magnate Sir Marshall Campbell. Kwa in isiZulu means ‘place of’ and Mashu ‘the localized version of Marshall’ and so the township receives its name as a result of land ownership by the Scotsman. Marshall also introduced rickshaws in the year 1892; a controversial tourist attraction that is still ever present in Durban even up to the present day. In 1948, The Fagan Commission found that restrictions placed on black Africans residing in urban areas were too restrictive and possibly even detrimental as blacks still had to travel from surrounding areas in order to report for work. This commission while hailed as the most liberal of it’s time went ultimately opposed by the Apartheid government with additional legislation subsequently being rolled out. The original inhabitants of KwaMashu hailed from Cato-Manor, a working-class area just outside Durban locally known as Umkhumbane. It was here that black Africans used to reside alongside Indians and Coloureds alike. This was the case up until the introduction of new laws as part of policy change by the Apartheid government. These new laws went contrary to the findings of the Fagan Commission and drove South Africa towards an era of heightened segregation. A part of these new laws was the ‘The Group Areas Act’, the essence of which was the separation of races by way of residential designations. This meant that Indian, coloured and black communities were to live separately from each other and most especially separate from whites. This was in line with the apartheid government’s policy of racial separation. This law was one of many that existed alongside other laws with intentions to separate the races, some of which included ‘the Land Act of 1913’, ‘the Mixed Marriages Act of 1949’ and the ‘Immorality Amendment Act of 1950’. Other famous examples of The Group Areas Act include Sophiatown and District Six. Cato Manor was among many South African communities that fell victim to forced removals during apartheid. There was a fair bit of controversy in the formative stages of KwaMashu. Prior to the relocation of Cato Manor residents, a board known as the Cato Manor Native Advisory Board was consulted however some residents of Cato Manor who were deemed illegitimate were left out and ultimately ignored from the process. A competition was even held by local Durban newspaper the Daily News to name the township. Despite facing strong opposition, the name KwaMashu was the one chosen in spite of names such as ‘Mahlatanyane’ and ‘Mafukezela’ in honour of notable black stalwarts such as Mahlati and John L. Dube respectively.

Today KwaMashu is known as one of the biggest townships in Durban, it is made up of 13 informal settlements and approximately 9 informal settlements. 2019 marked 60 years since its establishment in 1959 and eThekwini Municipality’s Local History Museum held an event to mark the occasion.

Obed Mbatha who was a resident of Cato Manor and present during the relocation spoke at the event , he stated; “That was the start of difficult times in KwaMashu. We lived that way, with no transport to the city. We would catch buses coming from Ndwedwe from a place that was the police station, bus stop, charge office and court, all in one…”. In looking back at the forced removals, Mbatha reflects that the period was hurtful based on how he remembers life in Cato Manor. Reflecting on it as a time when the people of Cato Manor lived in harmony and were able to share with their neighbours.