ZS Khumalo

My name is Zama Khumalo from one of South Africa's 9 regions, called Mpumalanga province. I love reading, also writing but writing is actually the staff that I love though I do a lot of reading than writing. In reality, that's because I read in order to learn how to write. I was born Zama Steven Khumalo on 4 June 1987 at Barberton Hospital and my parents used to live in Carolina pine trees plantation farms. They were all, including their parents, both born across the areas from Ermelo farms to Badplaas.

My father, Elvis Khumalo, (1964-2002) is no more. My mother Gladys Ndlovu (1966) is around, and she is doing okay. My half-sister Thandeka Khumalo (1992) is an idiol to me. My half-brother Phumlani Khumalo (1997) is in Britain with his nurse mom. I love them too, I should actually visit them and fly from South Africa to another country.

Mncedisi Khumalo (1987), half-brother again, is an idiol as well. Mncedisi's brother Mthobisi Khumalo (1995) is actually the one. Love that one too much. My paternal grand-mother Zodwa Hlatshwayo (1947-2011) was a star. You should have seen her from the time of my birth in 1987 to 2011 when she left. Super! You couldn't believe.

Now my favourite animal is a cat, horse and an elephant. An elephant is actually the one that I can pick first. Following that, a horse. See, a horse is generous shem. That's one guy who knows how to take care of human beings. I'd also take care back of a horse if I happen to own one. One guy I know who owned a horse in Badplaas broke its left front leg while galloping with it on wetland. It pained my favourite guy in that state. I loved him shem and he was one of three horses in the area in 2020.

Then see, a cat is cool you know, but I'd love something bigger! I'd first pick an elephant and then a horse. I know I'd need a cat. I'd actually need a cat to keep me from being bored because of its amazing sense of curiosity and directions. That guy is a human being child in making. How I love that elegant feline!

My reading lists are anything by Noam Chomsky, Pan-Africanist writers, conspiracy theories, opinions on global politics, newspapers, government documents, leftists, centrists and rightist thinkers and my only and last favourite authors, George Orwell and J.J. Ncongwane.

But I'm also a fan of Deon du Plessis and Mzilikazi wa Afrika, then also I know I'm a cheeky moron, you won't believe. You should see me when I do it. For example I could push away you when you try to help me, simply because I feel you wrongly think I cannot feed or do those things myself. So in that form I prefer the political system that will give me the options to choose the things that I want and the leftists have answers to that. Well, I think the centrists are cool guys who know their story but then I think the rightists are good men also but then they need to come to their senses a bit about the inequalities in our society. See, Wikipedia has those options of me choosing the things I wish to do. Whoever created Wiki deserves a bell.

I started knowing about Wikipedia, to tell you the truth, in 2008 while I was a student in Language Practice at the University of Johannesburg. Wikipedia got famous in my mind somewhere in early 2009 or so when one student in our journalism class was penalised by our lecturer Dr. Elna Rossouw for copying a Wikipedia article as it is for his assignment. If you know plagiarism, that guy was worse than that.

I started Googling stuff up on Wiki and my first article, a biography, was published in 2020.

ZS Khumalo

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