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nemasiko. Manje kufuneka kutsi bantfu bavule emehlo bayibukisise lenkholo
lensha kutsi yinhle yona kepha nawutsatsa yona ungalahli loku lokukwenta
ube ngumuntfu wendzabuko.
Emavi lahlakaniphile lashiwo ngulobekaLisekela Mengameli, Thabo Mbeki
awacondzise kumalunga ephalamende nakumiswa kwamukelwa
kweMtsetfosisekelo welive leNingizimu nga-1996, akubeka kucace kutsi
nawungumuntfu wendzabuko buwena butinte kuko konkhe lokukulelivekati
Ie-Afrika. Asimuve lowekunene nakabeka ngemagama akhe kanjena:
On an occasion such as this we should, perhaps, start from
beginning.
So let me begin.
I am an African.
I owe my being to the hills and valleys, the mountains and the
glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas
and the everchanging seasons that define the face of our native
land.
My body has frozen in our frosts and in our latter-day snows. It
has thawed in the warmth of our sunshine and melted in the
heat of the mid-day sun.
The crack and the rumble of the summer thunders, lashed by
startling lightning, have been causes both of trembling and of
hope. The fangences of nature have seen a pleasant to us as
the sight of the wild blooms of the citizens of the veld .....
A human presence among these, a feature on the face of our
native land thus defined, I know that none dare challenge me
when I say: I am an African.
(Mbeki, 1998:31).
Ngemavi lawa lakhombisako kutsi nawungumuntfu wendzabuko buwena
busengatini futsi nobe ungatsi wentani uyihlanganise nani angeke nakancane
untjintje ube ngulokunye. Kwala nobe ungadzimate untjintje ligama
nesibongo ngobe naku sewutfole inkholo lensha kepha ingati yakho
iyosolomane ikwenta ube wendzabuko. Akekho futsi kulomhlaba lesiphila
kuwo langakwenta ungasabi ngumuntfu wendzabuko. Inkholo yesintfu
imumatseke kuletintfo Lisekela Mengameli lelikhuluma ngato. Kantsi futs;
lokunye lokubalulekile kutsi bantfu labakholelwa kulenkholo yesintfu
banekuvana Jokumangalisako. Empeleni nawungum' Afrika usuke vele
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