The Great Royal Tree of Africa

By Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi

Your life may change by reading this book!

Most of the beautiful things are refined by dire circumstances just as most of us have been thrown into real life experiences which come like storms and floods into our lives, but every painful experience comes with the best lesson in our lives.

This book is about the author’s real life experiences which came like a destructive force into his life and he thought he was dying but he was moulded and polished to be a better person through his pain and suffering.

About the Author

Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi was born on 07 August 1969 by Mrs Ntombi Sindisiwe and Nason Ncezu Mkhwanazi at Nomathiya Area in Mtubatuba in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He started his education at Somkhele Primary School, Mehlokubheka Senior Primary School, then he went to Inkosi Mgwazeni Secondary School in Mtubatuba and completed his matric in 1991 at Emoyeni High School in Mtunzini in KZN. He is married to Queen Ayanda Promise Mkhwanazi. His children are: Samkele Khethokuhle, Qiniso Bayethe, Mnqobi Anele Kwazi, Siqiniseko Nsika, Aphiwe Nelile and Becherim. He graduated from the University of Zululand with SSTD, B Paed(Arts) and BA Hons. He is currently doing his MA with UKZN. He is a son from Mkhwanazi Royal house of Nomathiya. He is a teacher, pastor of a church he founded named House of God Worship Centre, a community developer, a political leader, a public speaker, a motivator and a musician.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi
• Release date: May 24, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463223710

Book preview

The great tree

The royal tree of Africa,

The tree came with honour and salute,

It bends not by lack of confidence,

But by humbleness and obedience.

The tree came with integrity and wisdom,

It grew tall and with stature,

The tree bears fruits even in drought,

The tree implanted in the centre of the world.

It implanted in the island with disgrace,

But grew with pride and honour,

It is displaced from the soil,

But centred in the hearts and minds of the nations.

It was shuttered but made aloud,

It manifested the great humankind,

The great and deep root of the true trees,

The tree that gave shadow and peace to the whole land.

The tree which is the voice of the mute,

The legs of the lame, the eyes of the blind,

And strength of the weak.

The wisdom of the land,

Security of all hope,

The foundation of democracy.

The mind, eyes, ears, hands and legs of the poor,

The head of the wise and intellectual,

The colour of all nations.

The hope of the oppressed,

The strength of the deprived,

The power of the disadvantaged,

The solution of the exploited.

The symbol of the nations,

The true colour of all nations,

The original uniform of all schools of governing,

The genuine structure of the head.

Composed by Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi, 11 December 2013

2. Faith

It is the ability to live above affordability

But live within the ability of the Word of God,

It is the power to hold the unseen world

In the circumstanced and conditioned land,

The force of unlocking the pictures

Of the unreal world in the real world.

It is an eye to perceive the light in the darkness

And it is the spiritual force to dwell in the impossibilities,

The key to unlock the doors of limitations,

It is an instrument of drilling the hole in the rock.

It is the power to enjoy the victory in the area of defeat

It is the strength of speaking the contrary,

It is the energy driving the mind to see the unseen

It is the weapon to destroy the existence for the inexistence,

It is the foot to travel to the unseen with the seen.

It is the world of assurance of the existence in the inexistence

Faith is the title deed of the unseen property,

The ability to dwell in the unreal world

It is the truth of the lies,

It is the fruit of the unseen and real of the unreal.

Faith is the substance of what we hope for

And the confirmation of what we do not see,

It is the ability to see beyond the present situation

It is the production of the hearing and reading,

And it is the deposit of great wealth.

Composed by Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi, 31 November 2013

3. Dead minds

Oh dead minds and honour

Shaming the alives

And humiliating the living

Saluting the dead whom were shamed when alive.

Honouring and pay tribute unto the dead

But ignoring them when they existed

Praisers and worshippers of the dead

But disgracing them when they were alive.

Disrespect of the alives

And mockers of the living

Obeying of the dead and ignoring the living

The dead minds and hearts

Bow to the living and salute the alive

Worship the alive and honour your living.

Composed by Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi, 12 September 2013

4. The ladder

Never ever never

Never ever take it down

Never let its holders depart

Never trust it without them.

Never allow others to take it away

The way up is the way down

Three of its stakeholders are permanent

Never chase the ladder away.

The puller of the climbers

And the holder of the weak

The lifter of the short

And the assurance of the cowards.

Composed by Goodwill Siboniso Mkhwanazi, 30 March 2013

5. Makers of Destiny

The way they make is the way they destroy

Making is their target

And destroying is their business

The makers of destiny.

Mountains and fountains of news

The factory of secrets

And industries of information

The creators of destiny.

The broadcasters of joy

And printers of sadness

Hunters of the stories and preachers of the hidings

The eyes