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lebekunyembenywa ngulabekunene kepha Bujo, (1992) uyiteka kahle
lendzaba natsi:
Perhaps what was the deliberate attempt to iradicate or destroy
our cultural heritage since drumming, for example, was
considered by the church to be a heathen practice. African
Christians were at once cut off from the well springs of their
culture - the rhythms of African music and dance ... African
medicine, too, was regarded as inferior, and if you were an
African Christian you were expected to seek help from the
doctor at the hospital, not from the African herbalist, who had
come to be styled the witch-doctor or medicine man. And yet it
was the herbalist who throughout the ages had cured our
fevers and our deseases. His knowledge of local herbs could
have been used in the development of curactive medicine in
Africa, but instead he was condemned, and no distinction was
made between him and a trickster or juju-man, who preyed on
our superstitioUS beliefs.
(Bujo, 1992:45).
Manje loku lokubalwe ngenhla ngiko kanye lokwenta kutsi bantfu
bendzabuko batitfole bakulolubishi labakulo njenganyalo. Phela bantfu
bendzabuko bebakwati kulapha kunetinyanga letembulelwe ngemitsi
yesintfu. Bekungekho sifo lesibahJulako. Inyanga beyilala, ivuke· seyitjeliwe
kutsi sifo lesinjena umutsi wakhona iyowumba kuphi. Nyalo nje sihlushwa
tifo letifana nalombulalave losocedze ingabe kudzala bantfu bakitsi balitfola
likhambi kube abamange bayekeliswe lolwati lebalushiyelwa bokhokho.
Sikhala njena nje nyalo kutsi tintanga setiyabalwa kantsi nemahlatsi sekwaba
ticiwi tetinyamatane, abasavunyelwa bantfu kungena bembe imitsi. Kantsi
nalamanga labatjelwa wona bantfu bakitsi kutsi tinyanga bosathane
kunemtselela lomubi kabi ekwelapheni ngobe tinyanga sitfunti sato sesehlile.
Lokumangalisako kutsi nalaba labatsi babazalwane ebusuku batfofakala
khona etinyangeni kepha bashumayela kute kuphukuhle emagwebu
banyembenya tinyanga batsi timadimoni. Loku ngiko lesekwente kutsi kube
nebantfu labanengi labatsi bati imitsi babebangayati ingani bayati kutsi
tinyanga yintfo lengahlonishwa. Kantsi kube tinyanga tiniketwa sitfunti sato
bekungahleleka kahle laba labangasito tinyanga bangavunyelwa nani kutsi
balaphe. Kuhle noko kusho kutsi umehluko lomkhulu ekhatsi kwenkholo
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