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The Kalanga Origins of the Thembu and Nelson Mandela Revealed

Stori es of our Great Achievements Must be Told Alan Dershowitz notes his feelings about his Jewish identity when he was a Yale law student: “When I went home for the Jewish holidays, I told my parents about the brilliant teachers at Yale: Goldstein, Pollack, Bickel, Skolnick, Schwartz. Then I told them about the most brilliant of my teachers: Calabresi. Without missing a beat, my mother asked, ‘Is he an Italian Jew?’Angrily I said, ‘Don’t be so parochial. He’s an Italian Catholic. Not all smart people have to have Jewish blood.’ Several months later, I learned that Guido Calabresi was in fact descended from Italian Jews.” [DERSHOWTIZ, p. 50, quoted in When Victims Rule: A Critique of Jewish Pre-eminence in America ] Another Jew, Joshua Halberstam writ es that “Pointing to the high proportion of Jewish Nobel Laureates … is a custom practiced around Jewish tables everywhere”, while in the 1970s a Jew from Odessa told the American Jewish Congress that “it was kind of a hobby [am
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Whence Are the Kalanga: The Origins of the Kalanga Nation Traced and the Question of Semitic Blood Addressed

We probably by now already have a clue as to the likely origins of the Kalanga from reading the previous chapters. We heard from Professor Motshekga that the Kalanga originate in northeast Africa. Bakgalaka chief, Chief Mongatane of Polokwan e claims Kalanga origins in Arabia. The Mwali Religion, which we have looked at in the previous chapter, gives us perhaps the biggest hint that shows North East African (NEA) and/or Ancient Near East (ANE) origins of the Kalanga. These are just the few hints that we have that tell us something of the origins of the Kalanga. But that is not all. We have encountered a number of statements made by several writers from the 19th and 20th centuries claiming that in Kalanga blood flows Semitic and/or Jewish DNA, thus linking them with peoples from the ANE/NEA. Let us take a look at some of these statements, many of which we encountered in Chapter Five, beginning with Dr Theal. He wrote in 1907: Of all the Bantu they [the Kalanga] had the largest
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Rebuilding the Great Nation of Bukalanga: The Twelve Tribes of Bukalanga Re-Discovered and Redefined

The Rev. G. H. Cullen Reed of the London Missionary Society station in Bulalima [Bulilima], in Matabeleland, who has labored for some years among the Makalanga of that district writes: In all descriptions of the Makalanga it must be carefully borne in mind that there is no tribe, existing as one, which bears this name, but the people to whom it is applied consist of many tribes having their own peculiar traditions and customs more or less allied, but with considerable differences most confusing to the enquirer - Richard Nicklin Hall and W. G. Neal 1904. The Ancient Ruins of Rhodesia: Monomotapae Imperium. After almost two centuries of subjugation, suppression and distortion of our history, identity, languages and cultures, it is only right that we begin a book of this kind with a redefinition of who we are and what ethnolinguistic groups constitute the Nation that we call Bukalanga. It is no doubt one of the great tragedies of our time that for the 33 years of Zimbabwean history,
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