"King" Mogomela is right, after all.

And so old man Mogomela is right after all. In case the reader has not been to Francistown,Botswana, and therefore does not know Mogomela, let me give a brief description. He is an old man with a high pitched voice; rides a bicycle with all sorts of appendages - sometimes the botswana flag; always a blue plate with a long message proclaiming him (Mogomela) as "King of Kings etc." Mogomela is 93 years old, and he is a Setswana language speaker. He is a jolly old man, always with a smile on his face, and eager to engage in conversation.

Some six years ago, on one of his usual visits to the Social Security department at the Government offices, I challenged Mogomela on his claim that he is the greatest King of all Botswana Kings. I told him that it is unfair that Kalangas do not have a "king/chief" when other tribes, especially the so-called "major" tribes have them. For the first time ever, I saw him look serious. He focused his eyes on some unseen distant object and said "Mokalaka gase morafe, Mokalaka go tewa lefatshe" which translates to "A kalanga is not a tribe, by Kalanga we mean the land [or country or world, I didn't know which]". He did not elaborate, but quickly reverted to his usual self "hei boy, [I was in my late fifties] did I not tell you that even the president reports to me!" Most people actually think he is mad, and treat him as such.  Now, back to Mapungubwe.

Mapungubwe is variously referred to as Liwa; luwo; luo; lowe; luwe in IKalanga-related languages; each name having one thing in common – it is derived from the infinitive verb “ku wa”, meaning “to fall”. The verb “wa” could be either Kalanga or Sotho-Tswana. However, the Operating language, which one might call the meta-language at Mapungubwe, was Kalanga; also referred to as Ikalanga.
This view finds support in the fact that the names of the work groups there, which names now belong even to non-Kalanga speaking nations of Southern Africa, are in Kalanga, e.g. Bahumbe (the diggers); Batugwa (the porters); Be-Hakata (the traditional doctors/deviners); Balindi (the guards); BaChiliga (the cliff-face guards); Balilima (the crop farmers) etc. The meta-language belonged to the ETs. In other words the ETs spoke Kalanga. The ETs did not have teeth, and that is why they ate our sh!t and the contents of our stomachs. Now, picture a toothless creature that speaks. “That’s a parrot!” I can hear you saying. Exactly! In Kalanga, a parrot is called “wenga” .The word “we-nga” is composed from two verbs “ku wa” meaning “to fall” and “ku nga” meaning “to resemble”. In other words a parrot is called “wenga” because it speaks, and has no teeth, just like the Mapungubwe ETs.

It is generally accepted that on leaving Mapungubwe, its Kalanga inhabitants relocated to Great Zimbabwe. I don't know how that conclusion was arrived at, but I believe it, albeit with a qualification attached. It was the ETs, and not necessarily the general populace, that relocated to Great Zimbabwe.  The general populace, e.g. Be-Hakata, Batugwa, is us. Some of us are as far south as Cape Town.
The Extra-terrestrials (ETs) actually left us the message about their relocation to Great Zimbabwe at the Great Zimbabwe ruins themselves - carved in the form of the Zimbabwe soapstone birds.  Seven of these bird carvings were found on the hill complex at Great Zimbabwe. All the birds were facing east. Each bird stands on a pedestal.  The shape of the pedestal closely resembles Mapungubwe hill/mesa.
On at least one of those carvings, a reptile of some sort is carved on the pedestal, facing upwards towards the bird. The birds are clearly bateleur eagles (Zwipungu, or Mapungu when personified). In my opinion, and evidently , that of zwidenkalanga; [please google "Zimbabwe soapstone birds - ancient Mapungubwe seal ?] what all this means is that the ETs were chased from Mapungubwe mesa by some sort of reptile, and that they (ETs) relocated from Mapungubwe to Great Zimbabwe as a result of this.

At this point the reader needs to be aware of an extra terrestrial race called the Draco reptilians. It is exquisitely described in Benson C.  Saili's column "this earth my brother" in the weekly WeekendPost newspaper. The reader needs to be exposed to the material in Benson Saili’s column starting from the 5 – 11 May 2012 paper, up to and including the 2 – 8 June 2012 edition. My next post will assume such exposure on the part of the reader, and will show the real roots of Sesotho/Setswana language in Southern Africa.