Bloggers have no real relevance except supply content for curious people who have time to waste on the internet so I don't expect my opinion to be taken seriously. But if we could create the best possible South Africa, with all the knowledge & research available, how would such a country look like? Is the existence of South Africa itself really the best thing for it's people? Considering the history of South Africa, if we do the calculations, what is it's future? Will the future of South Africa remain leftist & liberal or will we slowly start wising over to the right (conservativism)? Who will be South African then? And who will be excluded from being South African if this name & "identity" still exists? Countries change, especially ones as unstable as South Africa. Whether change will be good for the average South African or leave him & his kind out in the cold depends on what happens today.
I always wondered which of the many Zulu dialects modern Zulu is & always thought it was Hlubi (isiMbo) & according to this thesis by a Mr. Isaac Sibusiso Kubeka written in what was apparently 1979, we see modern Zulu is more the original Ntungwa dialect. The Mthethwa dialect (isiLala) that was likely spoken by King Shaka looks more a Tsonga dialect from a Zulu-speaker's perspective. Despite the "Zulu area" speaking many dialects, I'm of the belief that these dialects were mutually intelligible & similar for the most part. This is the only way these Nguni tribes from southern Mozambique up to Umzimvubu River & inland into the Drakensberg Mountains up to Gauteng could understand each other because I, genuinely, think that it was seldom that an African travelled to a land where he couldn't speak the local language in precolonial times. Mild differences between Zulu dialects. Writing Zulu I remember reading a book written in 1930 by ...