Shashe

 I do not accept the view that murder of a member of the opposite sex is in any way different from that of a member of one's own sex, such that murder of a woman by a man is now classified as a form of GBV.  We have a serious problem of criminality in our country. A few months ago a man killed his mother with an axe; then traveled almost a thousand kilometers where he killed his ex girl friend, and was stopped before killing his sister in the same killing spree. A couple of weeks ago a man against whom a court had not only issued a restraining order, preventing him from coming anywhere near his "estranged" lover, but had even relocated him to his original village a hundred or so kilometers away, traveled back to the lover's village and hacked the lover to death with an axe IN FRONT OF THEIR CHILDREN, the youngest of whom is only a year old. These acts of wanton murder point to a deeply seated malaise in our society. We need to find a long term solution to this crimina...

The Kalanga verb "ku tala" means "to mark" as in "marking where to lay the foundation of a house/building." This is the meaning of the verb that first came to my mind when I realised that the word "Italy" is Kalanga for "itali", that being the person who performs the task of "ku tala".  But there is another connotation of "ku tala"; that being to make a mark on the skin of an animal, where the skin is going to be peeled from. That mark is often, if not always,  a cut extending from the backside of the front legs, and converging at the animal's thorax; then traversing the animal's underbelly to the region of the animal's sexual organs (if male) or udder (if female). From there the cut separates and goes down the rear of each hind leg. The English language probably has a shorter word for what I spent a whole paragraph describing! And so the responsibility of the Italians as an Anunnaki workgroup was the lat...