This message came to me in April. I was concerned about its authenticity so I delayed in publishing it.

Message from David Icke to Project Avalon forwarded to me & I’m merely sharing with all. I suggest that the banking details below are verified before posting on your Yahoo Blog.

@nnie46664 ~ Durban ~ SA

Hi everyone,

I read this message on Bill’ Project Avalon regarding a friend of David Icke and his family that are in a very difficult situation at the moment, and our help is needed.

This is a life and death situation, please read below.

From projectavalon.net:

“3 April 2010

I’m still working on the appearance, feel and planned content of the new website, and have a lot of work piling up to post. Please be patient! There’s quite a lot coming soon.

Of immediate concern is this personal message about Credo Mutwa, the South African Zulu Shaman who’s a close friend of David Icke, which I received from David yesterday. It reads:

Bill … I just talked with Credo Mutwa and he and his family, including children they have taken in who have lost both parents to Aids, do not have enough money even to eat.

‘We are starving, Mr David’, he just told me. I talked with him yesterday, but today I realised even more just how they are struggling.

He is being attacked from many angles that are too complicated to detail here, but they want rid of him for sure.

He was given a monthly income for life by a trust in America, but it suddenly stopped in December and since then he has, at the age of 84, been trying a scrape a living for his family selling paintings to tourists. I knew none of this until the last 24 hours.

I am wiring him £1,000 first thing in the morning (quite a sum in SA) so they can start buying food, but I need to find a way that they can pay their bills ongoing.

Any help or ideas would be much appreciated. Maybe a Credo appeal. I have to do something urgently, that’s for sure.

best wishes,

David

Please help this exceptional man. His bank details are:

• Name – C. M. Mutwa
• International Account Number – 014652048
• Bank – Standard Bank, Lyttleton, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Receiving Bank SWIFTBIC – SBZAZAJJ

Thank you all in advance for your generosity – every small amount will help him.”

Original message by David Icke, relayed by Bill Ryan.

I hope to co-ordinate with Bill to find new ways to help out in this effort.

Please help these friends in need in any way you can think of, spread the message and donate to the cause if you can.

In unity,

Tommy

“I believe that if ignorance can be banished from this world, if people can communicate with each other fully, frankly, and in depth, then all wars will cease because the cause of war is fear and hatred, and hatred is the ugly daughter of the evil witch of ignorance” – Zulu Shaman Dr Credo Mutwa

Little is known of the true history of Africa, and for Linda Smith who spent much of her formative years in Mufulira (formerly Northern Rhodesia which is now known as Zambia) it has been imperative that she tells the tale.

That she has a gift for writing is beyond question for with the word pictures she creates one is taken on a journey of adventure, excitement and abject fear as refugees flee from the atrocities of the Congo War and more.

Supplementing her tale with pictures and footnotes she shows how life changed in Africa – where politics became the name of the game and not necessarily for the betterment of its peoples.

The book can actually be divided into two distinct sections with the former charting her childhood and the way in which the outlook of the people around her changed. It tells of the forced removal of the Ba Tonka tribe so that the Kariba dam could be constructed; the break-up of the Federation of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland; and in a delightful way the hopes of youngsters (immaterial of colour) who saw the potential of adventure in lush forests, fording streams and absorbing all that Africa had to offer including its magnificent sunrises and sunsets,

The ‘second’ section shows how far she had drifted from her original dreams and away from the person that she really was (but now is). It’s an awakening and the reason for the title ‘Returning to Myself’. And this is applicable to everyone (male and female).

She also looks at how religion and politics (two subjects which are supposedly taboo in conversation) affect our everyday lives and how often we tend to brush away conflicts rather than face them head on.

“There’s more to life than just having a job,” she states. “We need not exhaust ourselves chasing money, but should rather take the time to develop our consciousness and our love for self, our love for others, the Earth and all her inhabitants.

“In this new day and age, the way to an enriched life and to attain true wealth, and enjoy prosperity is to work honestly and with integrity.” And this brings me back to the opening quote by Sangoma Dr Credo Mutwa – who inspired Linda to tell her tale. If we take the time to understand each other and take ‘I’ out of the equation the world (to quote Michael Jackson) ‘will be a better place for you and me and the entire human race’.

I hope that when you read ‘Returning to Myself’ you are impacted by Linda’s words as much as I was and in the latter section come to realise whether you are on the right path to making YOUR world a better place.

‘Returning to Myself’, published by Fish Eagle Books, is available from Exclusive Books ISBN 978-0-620-43242-9

We all have the divine masculine ( I/Mind) and the Divine Feminine ( AM/Heart) in us all. To get thru the struggles that lie before us…we must all act like grandmothers. We are all one. Love one another, Unconditionally.

‘Zoo City’ by Lauren Beukes is muti for the human condition
Jun 3, 2010 11:39 PM | By Matthew Du Plessis

Matthew Du Plessis: When the stars are aligned, and the fates and furies sufficiently distracted, I sometimes find that I have the space and the time to enjoy a good book.

And I’m pleased to report that Zoo City, the novel I devoured this week past, is so mightily good that you have to go read it right away. No, not just-now, NOW!

Considering you are still reading, I assume you have despatched a minion of some kind to buy, borrow, or possibly steal you a copy.

To pass the time while we wait, I’ll fill you in on some of the finer details.

The new novel from Lauren Beukes, novelist, doer of TV shows, darling of South Africa’s twitter-literati, is a thing of magic, wit and wonder.

Pegged squarely in and around the whole of the greater Johannesburg metropolitan area, it’s a thriller of supernatural proportions, a whodunnit to make Raymond Chandler squirm, and a meditation on the social and economic divisions that characterise everyday urban life in South Africa that almost certainly won’t make you roll your eyes on account of having heard it all before.

Because you’ve never heard it like this before.

The world is as it is, except in the past decade a very strange thing has happened. Whosoever commits a great sin or crime is rewarded not only with whatever punishments society sees fit to bestow upon them, but also a material burden they must bear – a spirit companion of sorts. A fetch. A familiar.

Staking out metaphysical terrain somewhere between Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials and John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, these Animals appear out of nowhere. A murderer might find himself bonded to a Bear; a thief with a Scorpion; a crack whore with a Sparrow; an Afghan warlord with a Penguin.

Should the Animal die, so too does their person. Horrifically. Inevitably. They are a curse and a burden; but they bring gifts, too.

Zinzi December’s gift, which arrived with the Sloth she is now bound to, lets her find things that people have lost. It’s an ability that helps pay such bills as she has, living as an outcast in an inner-city squat. But it’s also a gift that draws her into a tangly net of intriguing webs, where distinguishing the spider from the fly is . tricky.

But her streetwise sass and hard-won smarts – not to mention Sloth, her beastly burden – might well see Zinzi through the murders, mysteries and madness that lie ahead of her.

Zoo City is a story of mysteries unfolding, and it is a story well told. But it’s the world around the story, and the words that guide us through, that make it something more than simply marvellous.

With her subtle, intimate descriptions of the roads we walk in this crazy city; with characters so deeply twisty you could lose a giant squid in their nebulous hidey holes, and with turns of phrase that are as likely to conjure up Rudyard Kipling, Brenda Fassie or Credo Mutwa as they are to invoke Japanese anime, Doctor Who or the crack in Johnny Cash’s voice as he sings of his greatest loss, this canny authoress has brought real magic to everyday life in Jozi, in what I’m afraid I really am going to end off by describing as an act of unadulterated literature.

source: The Times Live

A political spat about gay rights in Zimbabwe is symptomatic of the homophobia prevalent in many African communities

by Blessing-Miles Tendi

Zimbabwe’s Sunday Mail newspaper, which is controlled by Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party, ran an article last week headlined “Gay rights furore”. It claimed that “Zimbabwe’s major political parties are on a collision course over the inclusion of gay rights in the new constitution” because Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC is campaigning for the recognition of gay rights, while Zanu PF is against the idea for cultural reasons.

In turn Tsvangirai’s MDC has denounced what it regards as “attempts by Zanu PF to distort the MDC constitution principles through media reports that the party is lobbying for gay rights in the new constitution:

“Nowhere in our principles document is there any reference to gays and lesbians. For the record, it is well-known that homosexuality is practised in Zanu PF where senior officials from that party have been jailed while others are under police probe on allegations of sodomy. It is in Zanu PF where homosexuality is a religion.”

Zanu PF and the MDC’s use of the gay rights debate for political mileage and in order to deflect attention from other subjects are superficial explanations for these homophobic political developments. They are symptomatic of a broad disinclination for open and factual discussion about gay rights in many African states and black communities around the world. Myths about African culture, the strength of religion and black masculinity are the main reasons.

The standard explanation offered by Africans opposed to gay rights is that homosexuality is alien to their culture and was introduced to Africa by European colonialists. A good deal of African-American homophobia relies on the same justification. But late 19th-century records on Africa and African oral history show that homosexual practices existed in pre-colonial Africa. One case in point are the Azande people in the north-east of modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it was acceptable for kings, princes and soldiers to take young male lovers.