UYINGOMA!!!!!!!!!

The picture I was looking for was of Thandiswa Mazwai shaving her hair off in the video thathi sgubhu... That was my introduction to her ans some part of me I would discover for me because exactly a month later after seeing her in the video, I shaved my hair off thinking it was the coolest thing ever to hit planet earth - a woman who shaved her head and still looked like a girl. Of course little did I know I was still in Junior Primary and noone thought it was cool but rather funny and spent the first week being teased. When I think about it now I was such a punk.

I carried her and Bongo Maffin with me and with her new soloist person i followed with my undivided attention. I walked with her in my early high school years. buying her Zabalaza album three times and as i pursued my afrocentricity -  clothes and all. Its when I f

Thandiswa Mazwai continues to touch me and others through her unique voice and song. She continues to be the song of our nation,

So if ever a woman I had to include in my 31 ladies who have and continue to inspire me, I choose to celebrate her. She taught me that being black and being xhosa is not just beautiful and also sexy and a pride and honour I should carry everyday with who I am... It is me.

She calls on each and every person to stand fast in finding who they are, accepting that person and being proud of that person so we can stand for our nation and as an individual live.

"Ndiyaziqhenya ngawe mz'ontsundu"

EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING

A Woman With A Voice

You would think choosing a picture would be the easiest thing to do especially when it comes to celebrities (I stutter to use that word to describe this lady but it will do for now) but it was too difficult choosing a picture that would best display in one glance the power this woman has and continues to share with the world. Power in her sound, power in her words and power in who and what she is in every single aspect. Choosing a title for her, came with no dificulty because she has shown that she is a woman with a voice not only in her music but also in social issues that need to be addressed in our country, South Africa and it is a voice to be heard by many and has been heard my many including myself - Im still listening and growing, Mind and Spirit.

I wont give away her age because it is said a woman's age is her secret(google it..ssssshhh) but she was born in Gcuwa in the transkei,Eastern Cape (I am from Mthatha...shine - transkei tendancies) and my co groupie for Ms Dana would be my grandmother who resides in butterworth as she would proudly say she knows the dana family (the policeman) and we would pride ourselves in that in our hearts weve always known Simphiwe Dana (please dont tell my gran I just exposed her).

Your music has fed me and taught me to stand, to reflect and give thanks. I continue to feel good in my skin through women like you and for that it gives me great honour and privillege to celebrate you as one of my 31 women who inspire me for women;s month.

To sis Simphiwe, you havent reached forty yet and they say life begins and forty...I wait with anticipation what that beginning has in store for the rest of us all. Keep shining and keep being that change and inspiration#Simamele

ZANDISILE

Everything is Everything

DEFINITLY A MUST SEE

Ladies and Gentlemen...... PUMZA MOOI

CHECK HER BLOG OUT: http://pumzamooi.blogspot.com/

Faith Like Poatoes - PUMZA MOOI,an HIV Conquerer

Faith like potatoes is the only title i could think about to describe Pumza Mooi's journey. I was blessed enough to be at the SAICA Camp 2011 Eastern Cape to hear her story but that's a blogpost for another day. Faith Like Potatoes is a christian movie that reveals a faith so strong it can move mountains, so strong it makes the impossible possible from a woman waking up after striked by lightning and presumed dead (please don't run to the graveyard now, thats why its called a miracle) and potatoes growing from a drought (hence the title). With enought faith and hope you could believe the movie having been based on a true story, as a christian i believe.

I will not tell Pumza's story in all its fruits for a story is best told by the writer himself(in this case herself) ans as such will leave it to Pumza. I am just hear to share her faith because like it is changing mine, Im sure will change your mind.

Pumza was diagnosed with HIV on 20 March 2001 and at the time she was pregnant with her first daughter.Fortunately, she gave birth to a beautiful and healthy babygirl. As Pumza says in her story, shock is the first to consume your mind and many questions and confusion but after which and during you have to options: Life or Death.Pumza chose life. I remember listening to her and she said : I said to myself HIV needs me to survive. If I die it dies with me, it needs a body to survive. She continues to say I said to HIV, if you want ot reside in my body, YOU WILL BEHAVE. You will not tell me when to die, I will tell you. It is at that moment i become the conquerer of my own life and the demons that roam in it. It is at that point do I decide to heal myself or at least start a strong fight to do so.

Pumza changed her lifestyle of drinking to a more healthy and responsible to help survive what many would call an enemy but to her just a temporary guest.

Life is a journey not for the faint hearted but even warriors get injured. Pumza committed suicide a couple of times but had nothing to do with her status but other life's challenges. She is currently in the process of divorcing her husband but today she still stands strong.

Her power, faith and perserverance carries on through journey. A piece from her blog as she tells her story: "

Our South African HIV campaign “Scrutinise” has a slogan “FLIP HIV to HI VICTORY”. So I decided to look up the word “victory “and what it really means. It means “the defeat of an enemy in battle”, “a successful ending of a struggle”. So what did it mean to have victory over HIV? To me, it meant total and complete healing. It has been and still is said that HIV is an incurable disease and that there is no cure for it yet. But I know a Healer, Who is able to heal any disease. So I decided to take Him up on His word. The word that He heals and I called on the name of Jesus in faith that He will heal me of HIV. I confessed so many times that I have been healed of HIV. I sounded really arrogant to some, to some even down right stupid. When I went to my Doctor to have my routine tests, I told her with a huge smile on my face that I was now HIV negative but the test revealed that I was still positive. That didn’t shake me because in my heart I believed that I had been healed. It was exciting; it was really a great feeling. I got to a point where I saw the virus like a scar left in my blood system by a disease that once lived in my body. You know, like when one has a scar after a healed operation. That’s how I saw it."

Pumza underwent a series of HIV Test after changing doctors. She continued with her healthy lifestyle and continued to sand fast in prayer and remained in complete faith. As of 22 February 2011, Pumza Mooi is HIV negative.

I could not help to share her story and i continue to do so as I am doing now and of course it came with alot of criticism but if nothing, believe this faith can move mountains and nothing is impossible if you truly believe and fight for it.

"Hope - Every night we go to bed, we have no assurance to get up alive in the next morning but we still we set alarms to wake us up and still make plans for the coming day...thats hope. Hope in the Almighty for He is faithful and just."

NB: Both Pumza's daughters and her husband are and always have been HIV negative.

To Pumza Mooi, I pray you continue to live in the fatih that has kept u alive and has risen me form the dead. I pray that God carries you to continue to share your story and may he continue to bless you and your family richly.

To everyone who has taken the time to allow themselves to be inspired set your light and that of others shining.

Check out Pumza's full story and other inspiring pieces on her blog: http://pumzamooi.blogspot.com/

Everything is Everything

A couple of words form Les Brown

allign yourself with people who think and dream like you.

...change your liabilities within, improve your standards.

..start saying yes to your life, dreams and potential.

..dont allow your past to restrict your possibilities.

..someones opinion of you should never be your reality.

..you get in life what you want and not what you are.

..find your purpose.

..make a comitment to be happy.

..in life people fail because they aim too low and miss, aim high.

- Les Brown

lessons from others-what happens in heaven when we pray

 
 
 

Something to think about every day.

 

 


This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true:


I dreamed that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around.  We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.  My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said,  'This is the Receiving Section.  Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.  I  looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.  Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.    The  angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section.  Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them."  I noticed again how busy it was there.  There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.    Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station.  To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me.  He seemed embarrassed."  How is it that there is no work going on here? ' I asked.    "So sad," the angel sighed.  "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments"   
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I  asked..    "Simple,"  the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord. "  "What blessings should they acknowledge?"  I asked.    "If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world.  If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. "   "And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."   "If you woke up this morning with more health than illness .. You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "    "If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world."  "If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."     "If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare."   "If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair." Ok, what now?  How can I start?   If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.   Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you care to, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are   ATTN:   Acknowledge Dept.  "Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability  to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people with whom to share it. "    If you have read this far, and are thankful for all that you have been blessed with, how can you not send it on ????
I thank God for everything, especially my family and friends!

EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING