Venda - A Grand Language and Culture
Known as Venda or Luvenda,
Tshivenda speakers also have their own Royal Family and traditions relating to this. To become a King or Chief, your mother has to be “legible”, in order for you to take the thrown once the current King or Chief passes away. Mothers to the thrown heirs are also required to be from the Royal Family, to ensure that each heir has royal blood. In Tshivenda culture, it is not frowned upon for a brother and sister, from separate mothers, to marry. This ensures that only true royal blood takes the thrown.
Tshivenda people have great respect for woman, which is why their culture allows women to become Chiefs and Queens. Followers show women the same respect, they would their male counterparts.
True to Tshivenda tradition, every Sunday, a khoro is held. This is a form of Tribal Council, where all senior citizens and chiefs get together, to discuss community issues. Tshivenda speakers are proud of their traditions and instill their morals and standards on each new generation.
Music plays an enormous part in the Tshivenda persons’ life. Therefore, they have songs for joy, sadness, entertainment, work and worship. Most of their songs are accompanied by rhythmic drum beats, with the exception of the working songs, which is sung in a murmur. Drums could for all intent and purposes, be the symbol of the Tshivenda people, as dancing to the beat of a drum, is their different transitions through their lives.
Traditional cooking to the Tshivenda speaker is “tshidzimba” (a mixture of mealie grains, beans and groundnuts). Summer is a season for planting seeds, and working on the land. But you can be rest assured, that after a hard day in the fields, the day will be ending with a few drinks, music and dancing. So if you celebrate life, you might have a lot more in common with the Tshivenda people than you may think.
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