Gorachouqua Tribe

01/06/2026

There's such a big Hatred for Africa (Alkebulan)...where is it comes from... systematic orchestrated violence.

21/05/2026

Good morning my Aboriginal Indigenous brothers and sisters this morning I want to ask 🙏 this question: Why do we rather than referencing Peter Kolb who lives amongst our people and inter alia in the "Present State of the Cape of Good Hope: Or, A Particular Account of the Several Nations of the Hottentots: Their Religion, Government,Laws, Customs, Ceremonies, and Opinions; Their Art of War, Professions, Language, Genius, etc. Together with a Short Account of the Dutch Settlement at the Cape" was the only European that was officially received by Governor Willem Adriaan van DER Stel in 1705; chose to rather believe British imperialistic Isaac Schapera, who himself left out the atrocities our people have had to endure under British rule?

Schapera who 200 years later alleges that our forebears were not more civilized than the Europeans, neither were they"the 13th Lost tribe as the house of Israel as Kolb wrote in his account, and that Kolb only idolized the Hottentots, rather believe British imperialistic Isaac Schapera?

Kolb's book "Caput Bonae Spei Hodiernum, das ist vollstandige Beschreibung des Afrikanischen Vorgeburges DER Hoffnung..., was heavily edited and translated to suit European view of civilized into Dutch in 1727, French in 1742.

The big question why was the English translation of 1731 namely, " Present State of the Cape of Good Hope: Or, A Particular Account of Several Nations of the Hottentots: Their Religion, Government, Laws, Customs, Ceremonies, and Opinions, Their Art of War, Professions, Language, Genius, etc. Together with a Short Account of the Dutch Settlement at the Cape shorter than the original not an accurate translation?

The original German edition contains 846 pages, describe the Hottentot language, religion, lifestyle and customs before they were influenced to any significant extent by Europeans.

As is the case is with many naysayers Schapera et al proclaimed Kolb's observations such as his belief that our forebears were descended from the Jews and that our customs resembled those of the cave-dwellers of the Nile Valley strange, notwithstanding the fact that as iron sharpens iron, so do humans influenced each other's behavior.

That's why Isaac Schapera's assertion that Kolb idolized the Hottentots and proclaimed when he was 200 years later born in Garies in 1905, as professor at the Victoria College, later University of Stellenbosch in "The Khoisan People's of South Africa" wrote, growing up in Namaqualand he see Hottentot descendants practice be*******ty.

Although Kolb who wrote from a European viewpoint make moral judgements, such as describing our forebears as lazy, drunken and vengeful, modern historian researchers have found that many of our customs mentioned by Kolb, originally thought to be false by Westerners, have been proven correct.

Needless to mention Isaac Schapera was a British social anthropologist one of the founders that develops "the rule and divide" British social anthropology with his mostly imperialistic studies of Sonqais from whom his 1930 book "The Khoisan People's of South Africa flow and the 1953 "The Bantu-speaking People's of South Africa. My Aboriginal Indigenous brothers and sisters can you see from which source the current trend of cultural appropriation of the "Bantu-speaking People's" on social media stems from?

Lastly, unless the lion learn to read and write the story of the Hunter aka colonist will always prevail!

Much love 💕 😘 Billy Steenkamp

15/05/2026

The impact of the Legal Sector Code on the First Nation Peoples:

This is where the debate becomes more complex, because in South Africa the term “black people” under the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Commission framework includes Africans, Coloureds, and Indians who are South African citizens as defined in the legislation.

So, legally, Coloured practitioners are not excluded from the Legal Sector Code. They fall within the “black” category for B-BBEE purposes.

The concern some Coloured practitioners are raising is not formal exclusion, but practical displacement or reduced access if implementation becomes numbers-driven without recognising regional demographics, existing practices, and smaller legacy firms.

The concern from some Coloured practitioners may sound like this:
“We were historically disadvantaged under apartheid, we built practices through difficult conditions, and now transformation measures may benefit some groups more than others, especially where broad racial categories mask internal inequalities.”

That is a policy and implementation concern—not the wording of the Code itself.

Possible practical impacts raised in debate:

1. Ownership targets
If major clients or state entities apply the Code aggressively, firms may restructure ownership and leadership.
Some Coloured practitioners may ask:
“Will our participation count equally, or will procurement decisions favour narrower demographic outcomes?”
Legally, Coloured ownership should count.

2. Provincial demographics
In areas such as the Western Cape or Northern Cape, Coloured practitioners make up a significant part of the practising profession.

An argument may be:
“Transformation must also be rationally applied with regard to provincial demographics and not produce unintended regional exclusion.”

3. Briefing patterns
If state briefing becomes scorecard-driven, smaller Coloured-owned firms may worry about being squeezed between:

large established firms, and
newly prioritised empowerment structures.

A possible courtroom submission
“My Lord/My Lady, transformation is constitutionally imperative. However, transformation must remain inclusive of all historically disadvantaged practitioners recognised under the B-BBEE framework, including Coloured practitioners. A mechanistic application of sector targets, without regard to demographic diversity, regional realities, and existing transformation among smaller firms, risks replacing one form of exclusion with another.”

Or more sharply:
“The issue is not whether transformation must occur; the issue is whether implementation recognises the full spectrum of historically disadvantaged practitioners, including Coloured legal practitioners whose exclusion formed part of the same apartheid architecture.”

That is the tension likely to arise in future litigation—not whether Coloured practitioners qualify, but how benefits and opportunities are actually distributed within the broader ‘black’ category.

10/05/2026

WHY LUMPING "KHOISAN" INTO THE TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK?

It cannot be disputed notwithstanding the fact that "Indirect Rule" of the Bantustans was created to curb the "Swart Gevaar" so-called Khoisan were subjected to direct colonial erasure and dispossession.

Although the aim of the Traditional Leadership White Paper only caters for Khoisan constitutional recognition since section 212 of the Constitution only recognizes "traditional leadership", former Minister Sydney Mofumadi's recommendations that the so-called Khoisan needs a different status, would have forced the government to admit that the current Constitution is incomplete or "Bantu-centric".

That's why he was dismissed because he recommended that so-called Khoisan is distinct from traditional leaders. If his recommendations were accepted, the government would have granted us special protection under international law such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Therefore, it's a common cause to suppress its fears such acknowledgement would lead to massive land claims that will bypass the 1913 cut-off date, to avoid the"Indige neity" debate so-called Khoisan were lumped with traditional leaders.

We cannot tolerate this historical mismatch because our experience was never about "Indirect Rule", it was about assimilation and elimination.

Unlike the traditional leaders, we were not given "self-governing Territories. On the contrary, our land was seized directly by the Dutch and British colonists, and we were forced into the labour market as farmworkers or indentured servants.

Furthermore, the British and Apartheid regimes preserved Bantu chieftainships albeit to maintain white supremacy, our leadership structures were declared heathenish, thus illegal and since 1828 effectively destroyed. Since December 1838 we were legally "erased" by being classified as Coloured. We were governed directly by the State's racial laws, not by traditional councils as our collaborative brothers and sisters wanted us to believe.

In the Final: By forcing us into the TKLA, the government is imposing a "Bantustan model" on us, we aboriginal indigenous people who never had one.

It's common cause the TKLA requires a leader to have a specific community and territory. The government with the enactment of the TKLA purposely disregards the fact that because our people were displaced and scattered, many of us cannot prove a continuous territorial link like a chief in rural homelands can.

Less we forget the TKLA creates "Traditional Councils" exactly like the ones the 1951 Bantu Authorities Act did. The TKLA forces our identity back into a colonial-era "tribal" box that doesn't fit our transhumanism or communal history. Forced into a Department dominated by Bantu traditional leaders, we will be outvoted or ignored in the National House of Traditional Leaders.

Unless we fully utilize the 2023 Constitutional Court ruling and the current 2025-2027 extension for the new Bill to argue that we should not be lumped in with this "indirect rule" colonial/apartheid legacy, we must lobby and push for a separate status that must recognize us as indigenous, not traditional.

Thus, my dear aboriginal indigenous brothers and sisters now is our time to push 🫸🫷 and lobby government to enacted UNDRIP as a Charter of Rights for us in accordance with sections 6, 9, 14, 18, 30, 31, 231, 232, 233 and 235 of RSA'S CONSTITUTION in terms of section 234.

We cannot afford to idle. We either push the "Indigeneity" Debate in order for the state to recognize us as unique and distinct from traditional leaders, granting us the special protections under international law which UNDRIP affords us, or we willingly allow the government to lump and assimilate us into "Bantu-centric" section 212 of the Constitution "traditional leadership".

Much love 💕😘 Billy Steenkamp

09/05/2026

We cannot expect that the government will sito-sito implementing UNDRIP if our people are willing to be assimilated into the doctrine of indirect rule in order to receive pittance from the government to coerce our people to continue to be treated as voting fodder.

How do we expect the government to implement the UNDRIP if we as indigenous people are not prepare to hold them accountable by reporting them to the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR).

Lastly as long as we allow NKSC permanent chairperson to annually attend the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to lie that we as a people endorse the TKLA as well as RSA'S excluding Constitution our Indigenous issues related to economic and social development, culture, the environment, education, health and human rights will not be addressed.

Much love 💕 😘 Billy Steenkamp

09/05/2026

This opens up a can of worms 🐛 that has now matured into a bucket 🪣 of snakes 🐍…, This further implicates the former Chief justice Zondo as Cyril’s accomplice in keeping the Apex court captured by the elite, hence the door 🚪 opens for accountability and re-visiting the Zondo Commission but most importantly the fact that we have evidence of the failure of Zondo not fulfilling his fiduciary responsibilities to the Indigenous Peoples in South Africa 🇿🇦 and it goes back to implicate the ANC government under Thabo Mbeki and parliament for not implementing UNDRIP and Zondo’s failure to implement the constitutional obligations on defining the constitutionality of the UNDRIP documents handed to His Office prior and on the 9th of August 2022 in Gauteng, IPC (Indigenous PeopleConnect, Open Dialogue and the Gauteng Khoisan Council) marched and handed the document signed ✍️ on behalf of the Chief Justice’s Office of Raymond Zondo through Mr. Slingers at the Constitutional Court ( in the Mail & Guardian newspaper 📰 on the day) will justice finally prevail as the oppressive ANC failed to deliver proper governance in South Africa 🇿🇦

08/05/2026

Is there respect for sovereignty and justice in 🇿🇦 South Africa.
Every day in South Africa 🇿🇦 we awaken to the truth and reality that this country has completely lost it’s moral compass 🧭 and standing in every sector and we must evaluate ‘what’ is at the heart beat of our complete failure and dismal performance of a failed state that has no regard or respect of our sovereignty and justice evades the people who struggle to survive in 2026.

When everything is broken only a few of the strong and determined will gather the courage, strength determination and wisdom to persevere regardless of the reality the nation faces and the honesty and integrity to address these blatant truths of a broken society consisting of the ‘Victims class and Victor class ‘ those who suffer/suffered the ecocide metered out to our people and the victor class who continue to benefit through the struggle hold of colonial/apartheid benefaction off shore and locally.

Just looking at the two faces of South Africa 🇿🇦 (besides two faced leaders/politicians) we clearly see the character of these two opposing class factions daily as the victim class has to rise early (if sleep was a luxury earned) to the hustle and bustle of survival in a demanding world with no guaranteed success, a life of daily survival and limited success , while in contrast the victor class descendants awake to the humming of birds/animals and the flicker of sunlight announcing its presence as they prepare for their daily walk of dog and exercise routine and then a short drive to the preferred food and coffee outlet for breakfast and looking at the news 🗞️ on digital tv to analyse the markets and possible growth projections of profit or investment advances.

The daily rush to the city or developed areas where possible opportunities could present itself or a 9 to 5 job that keeps the wolf 🐺 at bay of life struggles and the pocket to mouth existence that is a daily survival mode that has unfortunately been the reality of

07/05/2026

26/10/2025

They have spoken

The sun peeps over the desert horizon
The birds call announcing the morning
There is peace in the land of the ancient people
The First People
Who were here when the earth was formed
And humankind emerge
From the ether
And stood erect
In body and soul

They looked to the stars and understood them
And wrote their soft message in their DNA
In perfumed letters
And mystical symbols
They lived in peace with nature
And with their fellow man
Their thoughts of a higher nobility
Their actions speaking volumes
Of humanity and peaceful coexistence

These are my ancestors
And yours

They walked in the mists
With soft gentle steps
Whilst chanting to Tsui-//Goab
Of you and me
Who were in their memories
As beautiful children of the Cosmos
Who would know the earth
Respect it
And protect it

The songs of love are sung in the winds
Painted in caves
And in the hearts of man

These are my ancestors
And I am proud of them!
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Rassool Jibraeel Snyman ©
"The Poetic Assassin"

Thanks to Prof Rachmond Howard for his writing on "The Zodiac in my DNA"

To Bi'a Jeanette who inspired me and drove me to write this piece.
2019/05/22, 07:41