Basarwa or Bakhwe ?

There is an intriguing irony in the Tswana language name that our country obstinately uses to refer to the “Bushmen” people. Granted, the name “Bushmen” itself, is derogatory; but it is the name by which Bakhwe are known in the wider world.  Our country officially calls them “Basarwa” (singular –“Mosarwa”) in the Tswana language, a language derived from, and closely resembling ancient Sumerian language. “Basarwa” leaders have pointed out that the name extrapolates to “Ba-sa-rua” which in Tswana means “those that do not rear animal stock”.

But here is the irony: anyone who owned a water well in our country before the European colonizers arrived, will tell you that his/her water well was dug/constructed by a Mosarwa artisan! So, those who “did not rear animal stock” were the artisans that dug wells for those who did rear animal stock. The irony reveals who the “Basarwa” really are: a mixture of Bakhwe and Ba-tsha-ina (Chinese). 

This mix of nations is not unique to Bakhwe/Batshaina in southern Africa. Nor is it restricted to southern Africa, for that matter. I have posted about a tiny village in Botswana called “Mhalapitsa”, which literally means “pot hewers”. The pot hewers are the people who hewed the toilets on Mapungubwe Hill, thus making pots for the gods. In Kalanga they are called Bahumbe(la); in Zulu – Umbele. Interestingly, if you ask a villager in Mhalapitsa, who they are; they say that they are “Bakhurutshe”, meaning Russians. However, their totem is not the baboon but a bird! This shows that they are actually a mixture of Bakhurutshe (Russians) and Bahumbe. The affinity between Bakhurutshe and Bahumbe extends to Northern Europe, where the former are called Russians and the latter, Belarussians. So, Russians and Belarussians are two distinct Anunnaki-era tribes/workgroups. The Russians’ totem is a baboon, while the Belarussians’ totem is a bird– the  African (or Thailand) hoopoe.

The Russians spawned many nations.  They started off as gatherers of tree buck in the bush, then developed into supervisors of gold mining operations. When humanity started rearing animals, the new animal herdsmen (Balisi in Kalanga) were spawned from the Russians. Today the animal herdsmen are known as Bakwena (Georgians). 

A sizable number of Bakhurutshe (Russians) in southern Africa today originate from Ethiopia. Among these are the “Mpofus”. In Ethiopia they probably supervised the construction of Lalibela. The ropes used by the rock hewers (Bahumbe) were made from jute and other fibres by “Ba-kosha”, a derivative of Bakhurutshe which developed into Jews (Bajuta). The same Jews made sacks from the jute. It is therefore, not far-fetched to suggest that it was in Ethiopia that the Russians spawned the sack makers (Ba-ka-Saka). These are the Kazaks, and/or Cossacks, most probably. If so, it would show that the Ukranians (Cossaks) are actually Russians. As for Belarussians, these are not Bakhurutshe but Bahumbe, an Anunnaki-era workgroup that is as basic as the Bakhurutshe (Russians) themselves! 

Ultimately, the Russians became something of a cavalry for the gods. Whenever the gods encountered a difficult-to-manage situation involving a human workgroup, the cavalry (Russians) was called in. When the goddess Inanna had problems with the Akkadian king Sargon (the great) she called in the Russians (Babina-tshwene) to restore order. When grain storage silos (pyramids) had to be built in Egypt, the Russians were imported from India. When the Jerusalem space port experienced management difficulties, the gods manipulated the Egyptians to rebel against the Russian Pharaohs and expel the same Russians (Jews) who had helped build the pyramids, thus triggering the Exodus. 

Now back to Bakhwe/Basarwa. And so “Basarwa” are actually Bakhwe (the dryers). Southern African Bakhwe have a strong component of BaTshaina (Chinese). The name “Basarwa” is derogatory, because the correct Tswana (Sumerian) translation of Bakhwe is Bakgala or Bakgadi. The Tswana word Kgalagadi (Kalahari) refers directly to Bakhwe, not to “a dry region” as the Tswana bigots would have us believe. Surely it is now time that Bakhwe stood up to government and demanded that government news media stop referring to them as Basarwa; that if their name has to be tswana-lised, then it should be “Bakgala” or “Bakgadi”.

In conclusion I would point out that the reason gunpowder was invented in China is simple. As Batshaina, the Chinese were the human workgroup most equipped to use gunpowder for blasting away rock while digging for water.