Our cultural fragility as a people will always be a function of whether it is built and/or based entirely on the memories of the elders whose eldership we embrace. When our tradition and humanity becomes our source of security and our being refuses to go the way of the mind, after it has been directed to volunteer our definition as people to cultural platforms that make us strangers, it is upon our manufacturers of narratives such as Power FM to recenter the living story of a nation through the prism of its icons. In the opening of The Chairman's Conversation, the construct of the program demonstrated that out of the ashes of a marginalised art, fire can be preserved for posterity's sake. Demonstrating that in his selection of The Chairman to have a conversation with, in this case Tatana Dr Khoza, Bhuti Mkhari foregrounded how less there is to justify his choice in his further selection of individuals to proffer preludes to the conversation.
Almost like PowerFM was declaring its interest by inviting a now global luminary in the auditing profession, and South Africa's first woman Auditor-General, Sesi Tsakani Maluleke, to emphatically declare that this process has a clean audit, and if there were any qualifications to make, disclaimers to declare, and adverse findings to record, the audit process on Dr Khoza has resolved everything. Sesi Tsakani in her vintage cool, calm, collected, and paying to attention details character chose to invoke the great parent to all that aspire to be the lighthouse Dr Khoza is, by reminding us of the choice of friends Tatana Khoza had, her father, The Judge. This closed the priori audit report to the conversation, Given Mkhari's conversation was indeed audited and the video will remain the everlasting audit report on a great life still being lived.
The choice of the CEO of one of South Africa's big banks, Mkhari and the PowerFM tribe was also announcing to the World that this 'breed of leadership' is a bankable proposal to posterity, an investment grade Standard Bank, notwithstanding its competitive status to what has come to being the 'other' brand Tatana Khoza is, The Nedcor Group, is brave to attach itself to the person he is. Reminiscent to its declaration that they are perception shifter, in drawing Standard Bank to the bankability of Tatana Dr Khoza, Mkhari's PowerFM shifted the template of criteria on the bankability of humans to include the ilk of vaTatana Dr Khoza. Sim Tshabalala banked The Conversation with the Chairman. The rest will be the accruable interest Tatana Khoza's life generates for this, Our Land.
To take us into the interior of Tatana Khosa, where he is most vulnerable, his homestead. Nkateko, his Khozaic daughter amongst a coterie of sisters she mentioned, invited us to the kitchen, bedrooms and living room of the Khozas. His privacy was public without vitiating the private a person Dr Khosa is. Tatana Ruel Khoza is the flower on the family name terrace, we all meet him first when we approach anything Khoza. He is the colours about being a Khoza that we know. On this rare Mkhari conceptualised occasion, Nkateko allowed us to know the lawns that the tree that Khoza is gives a shadow to, as he grew and still grows on it, his family ably led by their Mashigo born matriarch, Motau. She gave us a glimpse how a great dad and anchor to his primary family he is. She distinguished for us the "daughters by choice" that Tatana Khoza has found in the world, and the daughters by biology she is. She became a daughter of a father we know as a leadership father. In her we also saw a twin sister to the leadership heritage Tatana Khoza has given birth to for our country and the world. She referred to the grand children in the Khoza homestead, the nieces and nephews he has, in a way that defines him as a Patriarch of the family with a finesse that is commensurate with the patriarch of leadership he has become in South Africa. In her way Nkateko represented Mmane n'wa Mashigo as the background of permanence Dr Khosa is also referenced with and from.
The show steam came out of the boiling philosophical foundations of what defines ancestry of Khoza. Introduced as one who would connect the conversation with a past that makes Tatana Dr Khoza a thread that connects his rest with his other rest, and our rest, Professor Tinyiko Maluleke unpacked generational praises in poetic finesse that gave us echos from chambers Dr Khoza makes sounds in. As an outcome of a posterity defined long before Tatana Khoza was born, Professor Maluleke knitted the path of spirituality that subscribe to the truth of African sages that was not given space to be codified into a belief system. In praise, prose, and narration, Dr Khosa and Given Mkhari were located into a conversational space that invoked what might have been beyond them and yet present, it was a presence of the absent in their presence. The choice of Professor Tinyiko was quintessential to the extent that is relocated the Professor as the embodiment of the being Dr Khoza originates as. With less that ten sentences that were not in Xitsonga, Professor Maluleke reached all that were watching to spiritually be engaged without the need to understand what he was saying as its warmth oozed out of the screens and gadgets with which they were tuned in. A custom to new kingship was entombed, thanks again Given Mkhari.
The next instalment of this review will mpfampfaruta what Dr Khosa left in his song to the nation. What the questions of Given asked that was answered and what was answered which was not asked. This was a great conversation, only the scene setting could have been enough to meet the gratitude Tatana Dr Khoza was in elation to only acknowledge. CUT!!!
🤷🏽♂️A ndzo ngenelela ka swilo
🤷🏽♂️A ndzo ti vulavulela, ndzi ta vuya futhi
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