Sakhile Dube explains Zulu culture: Ancestors

zulu people are the biggest tribe of african we have in south africa are followed by people found on the eastern cape they call themselves cars are people like nelson mandela he was under the group of pawsa from the eastern cape we've got the other two group official swazi from eswatin and we've gone daredell around kruger national park i know you know in dabelis you saw them once on television they put a lot of ring on the neck like stretching the neck and also the heat from the legs yeah those are in their devils so swazi zulu and kos are all four we fall under one group we call ourselves guni people so out of um we split into four our lifestyle the culture the language is similar all four of us we does believe there is god but not praying our god directly we pray our god in the process of an ancestors in a belief that our ancestors they will take our message to god so at home i do believe i have to pray to my grandmother's grandfathers that they died long time ago or any member in the family died so we believe that we've got two lives is this life who i am if i die i will join the next life so in that next life it's more like i'll become an angel of my family my family if they need something to god i can god they need these they they see and then they come back and here we go it's how we believing in so in our homestead we believe that if someone die in a family she or he must die inside the homestead not in the road not in a water not in a hospital but inside the homestead so the spirit of that person it will stay inside the homestead but it happened someone can die in the road can they die in a hospital for exul we have to go and collect the spirit of that person so because we believe if someone die here they come and collect the body what about the spirit the spirit we believe that is still going to be lottery around the area that's why in south africa we do have some ceremony if the accident maybe will be a bus accident happen and kill a lot of people we believe that some of those people if they were not going to calm their family to collect their spirit the next two three years there will be another extent in the same spot we've got that believe that those people are there or which they need to be fed to in the next life but they're still lottering around the area now they create their own bad spirit so they need some friendship so that's why they'll cause accident so they can help to be more that's why i'll end up believing in coast because we believe that are those people of which they die away from home their spirit is not being put nicely into the family he's still watering around so for us if my family or anyone in my house who died maybe in a hospital as a family member we will go there in the form of a barranche of a tree let me display it take the branch with us maybe the one elder in the family will conduct the branch and we go to the hospital when we get there we're going to ask maybe my cousin was eric who said no we on behalf of eric we want to found out oh we heard the message that he passed away yesterday around about five and they'll check it out okay let me check eric okay go to bed number seven and then one two three four five six seven and we go to bed number seven and we take the branch then we keep it into the bed number seven and we ask him to go with us at home it's like i said okay eric it's me here your cousin saquilia i'm with your nephew your uncle we're all here to collect just you so we need to take your spirit source can able to rest in peace at home so we're taking you out from this hospital go with us we're taking you out from these premises now we're going to take a taxi and then we have to reach home that's your sport we have to sit here we're taking you home we're driving home we keep talking now we're passing the shop we were used to come here with you to do some shopping you remember other day when we come with you and then some money do that and that to you it's like you're creating that memory as you treat the spirit as someone who's still alive when we get home we inform him now we're at home so please go with us now you can rest in peace in our house we can build square houses and we'll build a roundhouse i'm not sure where they've seen it it's the rendezvous so we'll take that branch and then we keep it there into the rendezvous and then we leave it there it's how now we spirit we take from the hospital but the spirit is there into the house maybe one day i'll go to my work and my boss will say sake there i don't want to see you anymore in my yard oh what i did and then i'll go back into my house and go to the roundhouse and ask them what's happening i was at my workplace today my boss is just kicking me like a dog i don't know what i did to him please show me the way and pray to them maybe they will ask from god through to my ancestors and their reply that's how we believing in we did have a christian belief but the christian belief has been brought in south africa this was around about 1890s 1870s when we did have a lot of missionaries from europe they came down to africa and gave us a christian belief but the main african belief is an ancestor's belief two lives this life and the life after that thank you

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Keywords: isiZulu, Zulu, Click, Language, South Africa, Zululand, African clicking language, Zulu language, Nguni people, iSimangaliso, isizulu, clicking language, click language, click language Africa, language with clicks, African language clicks, clicking African language, African language with clicks, Zulu click language, San, San language, San click language, Zulu culture, African culture

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Length: 6min 55sec (415 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021