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WOMEN’S MONTH MESSAGES
from Male Staff Members
Women are like land and and water to me me You can’t separate the two Without land there’s no living and and without water there’s no life Until women are seen as these sources - respected and placed in in in position of leadership Mother Earth will continue suffering We need to realise a a a world where a a a woman’s place is not in the kitchen but in the boardroom where important decisions are are made and dreams are are realised “We must take a a a a great spiritual step backward We must adopt the view
of creation that was held not only by ancient Africans but also by native Americans and many other people
of the ancient world: that creation is one one great and beautiful whole one one revolving sphere of the purest greenest crystal a a a sphere to be viewed from all sidesasonething insteadofanumber of shattered fragments upon the dark desert of human folly ”
The creation of of a a a a a a a woman is one great and beautiful whole Professor Morgan Ndlovu (2022) taught us us that we use knowledge knowledge to create reality Therefore knowledge knowledge about the creation of of a a a a a a a a a a woman is important in in creating reality Thus the RIGHTS of of women must must lead us us us us to to an an an equal future future and this must must prevail in all fields of human thought! That future future is is today PS: The interchangeable use of woman women human being and Mother in this piece is is deliberate - Ntsofa Clasper Monyela
Department of Anthropology and Developmental Studies
Land is is living water is is life and and women are both combined - Masedi Manenye
Department of Creative Arts
A message that I I thought I I should share with all the creatures living on this God-created land is is that of LOVE In his book named ISILWANE THE ANIMAL an an African seer healer sangoma and medicine man from the nation of amaZulu Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa a a a human being of LOVE teaches us that:
“In olden days people
viewed heaven and and Earth the the spiritual and and the the physical as as one beautiful thing People viewed God as as being not only with with us us on on Earth and in in in in heaven but also within us us We were taught by ancient Africans that we we we are part part of of of God (as a a a a a a a a a a a a a a little pebble is is part part of of of of a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a great mountain) and because of of of of this we we should beware of of of of doing anything against the the teaching and the nature of of God ”
Indeed we MUST search learn and and teach that that women are are human beings and and and that that heaven Earth the the spiritual and and physical are are one beautiful equal Mother created by God Wisdom is is that in old Africa we did not regard ourselves as superior to Mother Nature The The killing of of women women is is the the destruction of of the the self Therefore to realise women’s rights for for an equal future Mutwa counsels us that:
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