“In Abundance of Water the Fool Is Thirsty” – Water Work vs Wage Work.
“Well above the timberline and only a short distance from the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine, where the sun first hits the United States each morning, is a spring of water. Above it is only hard rock. So where does that water come from? It cannot be rainwater percolating down from above. It’s primary water, and it comes from way below the base of that impressive mountain.” – Sig Lonegren, Dowsing for Water (page 137 of Masaru Emoto’s The Healing Power of Water, 2004) For those who follow my work, it is now no longer a mystery that the House of Plenty is a work that is shaped like a jig-saw puzzle or even a spinning chessboard. Perhaps this is why it is taking so long to get it done. In this scheme of things and telling’s, there is neither respect for strict linear time nor the standard rules of literature. We are dealing with the simplest as well as the most complex of Afrikan problems, namely, the most efficient use of apparently abundant yet finite resources. Coupled with striving to find workable economic programs/projects and models for creative cultural networks, Land is high up on the agenda. Land restoration is the pivot upon which all our Spiritual and economic strivings emanate. With the reclaiming of the land, we will reclaim our dignity and orientation as indigenous people. I will be quoting from essays I wrote between 2018 to 2020 while I also add emerging concepts and thoughts to the foundations of this House*, the walls, windows, and the roof will be built by up-and-coming generations, our children, and their offspring. It is the year 2021 and South Africans are still debating the merits and demerits our western styled democratic institutions and the Expropriation of Land Bill. At its 54th National Congress, South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress decided that the land reform program had to be sped up. The people are landless and crushed together in ghettoes, townships and other squalid situations while seeking survival within an anti-black world. The ruling party announced that it would pursue a policy of land reform without compensation to the majority land holders, which are the settlers/foreigners from Europe. If this is all done in a sustainable manner that would not disrupt the economy or most vitally, the agricultural sector. To this end, much dialogue between opposing parties, the state and the citizens has occurred. It is important to note that the together with the foreigners/settlers, the state owns much of the land in question. The problem is carefully planned and executed redistribution. In short, how is this to be done.