From a Town Called Enkeldoorn
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even forever.
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FORUM TOPIC 6676: LOOKING FOR MCCONKEY FAMILY FROM ENKELDOORN, ZIMBABWE
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 1847 GMT+2
Hi there! I’m Will, from False Creek in Vancouver, Canada! That’s the country in North America that’s NOT the United States LOL! Greetings! I came to this forum hoping to track down anyone who knew my granddad and his sister and their kids! I am not looking to write a detailed family bio or anything like that ha ha ha!
My granddad was called Douglas James McConkey. He was born in Scotland, in Dunfermline parish in a place called County Fife. He emigrated to Rhodesia together with his sister Rosaleen. My granddad was from a town called Enkeldoorn in your country. That’s where my mother Noelene (!!!) was born! She was born on Christmas Day! I know, right??? Her older sister was called Mary and she also had a brother, Fergus. I have not been able to trace Mary or Fergus or my granddad’s sister, I guess that would make her my great-aunt Rosaleen. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Will in Vancouver, Canada.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 1850 GMT+2
Enkeldoorn what, you idiot fool. It is called Chivhu, not Enkeldoorn.
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 1852 GMT+2
Sorry, what do you mean?
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 1855 GMT+2
It is Chivhu you moron, not Enkel****ingdoorn.
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 1857 GMT+2
I don’t understand, have I written it wrong? My spelling is not the best ha ha ha! It says Enkeldoorn, and not Enkelingdoorn, on mom’s birth certificate. She said it like ‘Angledon’, but it has a K and two Os!! I know, right??
CLIFF DUPONT : 1905 GMT+2
**** off, Tobaiwa. You are always doing this on this forum. It is perfectly fine for Will in Vancouver to say Enkeldoorn if he means Chivhu. It’s what the place was called when his mother was born for ****’s sake. It’s what’s on her birth certificate.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 1916 GMT+2
You **** off, you racist prick. We renamed those places, okay, we renamed the places that you took. Enkeldoorn my ****ing ****. It was never Enkeldoorn. Birth certificate or not, I refuse to accept that there was ever a place called ****ing Enkeldoorn because it was named that by a renegade racist regime of ****ing plundering thieves. It is our land and we took it back, and you have no ****ing right to call any of OUR places anything else.
RHODESIAN BRIGADIER : 1947 GMT+2
Before 1980, the Zimbabwe Ruins were a prehistoric monument in Masvingo. Now, 36 years later, the Zimbabwe Ruins cover the whole country. Ki ki ki!
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 1952 GMT+2
CLIFF DUPONT : 2000 GMT+2
Christ on a bike, you really do have shit for brains don’t you Tobaiwa. The point is that it was not called Chivhu in 19whatever it was that the man is asking about. How about just trying to think from time to time? It’s really not as hard as it seems, and you might even learn to enjoy it.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2005 GMT+2
Don’t tell me I don’t know how to ****ing think you ****ing Pale Devil.
CLIFF DUPONT : 2007 GMT+2
Oh here we go with the Pale Devil stuff. You are certainly doing a good job of demonstrating you don’t know how thinking works, Tobaiwa. Here’s a hint: first engage brain, then write. Guess no one can teach you anything now. A case of old dog, new tricks?
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2011 GMT+2
Who are you calling a dog, you dog? Who are you calling a dog? Do you know who I am?
CLIFF DUPONT : 2013 GMT+2
No but I can bloody well guess. You are a bootlicker aren’t you. A Brown Noser.
RHODESIAN BRIGADIER : 2015 GMT+2
Where is the capital of Zimbabwe? It is in Switzerland! Ki ki ki!
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2017 GMT+2
COMRADE MARLEY : 2021 GMT+2
Ha ha ha Cliff. Just come out with it. You mean Tobaiwa is a bumlicker of epic proportions. As his record on the forum shows, he is the Paramount Chief of Bumlickers. Likes to get his nose nice and brown! A real bottom feeder, ki ki ki.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2025 GMT+2
**** off Comrade Marley, you are nothing but a white man’s condom. I have read your posts on this forum. I know your type. You are one of those Useful Blacks who defend the Pale Devils. You are the kind that would have been against the Liberation Struggle. You would have been on the side of Muzorewa and the whites, dancing and ululating in favour of your own oppression. You are a ****ing Native Informant.
COMRADE MARLEY : 2031 GMT+2
Who’s dancing in favour of his own oppression if not you Tobaiwa? You sit on your laptop in whatever Western city you live in to ululate and celebrate the regime that chased you out to look for opportunities you could not find at home. Sorry maningi, shem’ stereki. Kupembedza n’anga ichabata mai. The only thing you are good for is breathing mugotsi mavamwe varume. Idiot fool.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2039 GMT+2
Well you would know all about breathing into the backs of other men’s necks wouldn’t you, seeing that is what you specialise in? ****ing pervert. And I can live in any country I want to and support the government of my choice, okay? It is MY right, it is MY right that was gained for me through the sacrifice of the BLOOD that was shed in the Liberation Struggle!
CLIFF DUPONT : 2045 GMT+2
Well that’s the whole point isn’t it? It may be your choice but it is not the choice of the majority of people who have voted that government out three times already! You do not speak for the whole country, Tobaiwa. That this government is still in power is a shocking outrage against democracy.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2047 GMT+2
You are the ****ing outrage Cliff Dupont. You are the outrage. I am not going to sit here and take lessons in democracy from Pale Devils, ****ing Rhodies and Useful Blacks. What did Rhodesia know about democracy exactly? Did Ian Smith and his government allow black people to vote in Rhodesia, yes or no?
And how many people, all of them BLACK, did Cecil John Rhodes kill to establish Rhodesia? Who voted for him to come to this country? Where was the democracy then? Who said he could just take other people’s land, expropriating it and stealing it with no compensation? Who gave him permission to come into our country and just take all the land that he wanted and grow rich from looting minerals from our own soil?
If you expect me to be ****ing grateful for being ****ing colonised like some Pale Devil loving Uncle Tom you can ****ing piss off. Don’t ****ing talk to me about ****ing democracy as though it was you Rhodies who invented democracy. We got our democracy through the barrel of the gun, okay? We got it though your surrender. It was not ****ing donated to us by the likes of you.
RHODESIAN BRIGADIER : 2100 GMT+2
What did Zimbos use for light before they started using candles? They used electricity! Ki ki ki.
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2106 GMT+2
GREATZIM FORUM MODERATOR : 2115 GMT+2
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CLIFF DUPONT : 2121 GMT+2
Well, some people’s very existence is a personal insult. Like monkey brain o
ver there.
TOBAIWA NEHASHA : 2125 GMT+2
Who you calling a monkey you Rhodesian ****wit? Who you calling a ****ing monkey?
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2131 GMT+2
Hello GreatZim Moderator, I am not from your country, and I do not speak any of your languages but I thought I should sign up just to say GreatZim is the best forum on the Internet. You guys rock. Keep it up! Mutakunanzva chaiwo. Dapitapi. Matindimutibvu nhopi inopisa!
COMRADE MARLEY : 2140 GMT+2
Ki ki ki, Bhoki yaBaba Jukwa. You are too funny. Ndiwe une yese. Ko, Tenzi varipi mazuvano?
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NYAMAENDE MHANDE : 2141 GMT+2
It is an OUTRIGHT LIE to say the White Man first arrived on our AFRIKAN soil in 1890. He arrived long before that, in the shape of the Portuguese Marauders who invaded the Mutapa Empire. By 1629, they had forced Mavura Mhande to convert to their religion and installed him as their Vassal, as the Puppet Mutapa they called Felipe. Since that moment, the AFRIKAN has known no peace. Only if the Mwenemutapa who is the true OVERLORD of this land is restored to His Rightful Place and only if AFRIKANS have taken back our LAND and given the White Man back his BIBLE and restore AFRIKAN Ancestors to their Rightful Place of REVERENCE will this country know PEACE and PROSPERITY. Bring back the Mutapa Empire. Today!
RHODESIAN BRIGADIER : 2144 GMT+2
So the headmaster at the school where Comrade Zuze has his child enrolled calls Comrade Zuze to the office to tell him that unfortunately, his son is as dumb as he is and if things don’t get any better they will have to expel him because idofo ramakoko. Comrade Zuze says no, that can’t be, his son is a very clever boy, just like his father. So the headmaster calls the son into the office and in front of his father, asks him: Son, who signed the Rudd Concession?
Comrade Zuze’s son just blinks and is quiet. Who signed the Rudd Concession, the headmaster asks again. The son obviously has no idea that it was Lobengula back in 1890, so he just blinks again and remains quiet. Comrade Zuze gets really angry at his son’s unresponsiveness, and shouts angrily: Look, son, if it was you who signed this Rudd Concession, just admit it right now! Bvuma zvipere! Just admit! Ki ki ki.
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2146 GMT+2
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 2200 GMT+2
Hi there! I’m Will, from False Creek in Vancouver, Canada! That’s the country in North America that’s NOT the United States ha ha ha! Greetings! I came to this forum hoping to track down anyone who knew my granddad and his sister and their kids! I am not looking to write a detailed family bio or anything like that ha ha ha!
My granddad was called Douglas James McConkey. He was born in Scotland, in Dunfermline parish in a place called County Fife. He emigrated to Rhodesia together with his sister Rosaleen. My granddad was from a town called Enkeldoorn in your country. That’s where my mother Noelene (!!!) was born! She was born on Christmas Day! I know, right??? Her older sister was called Mary and she also had a brother, Fergus. I have not been able to trace Mary or Fergus or my granddad’s sister, I guess that would make her my great-aunt Rosaleen. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks! Will in Vancouver, Canada.
AMAI BHOYI : 2215 GMT+2
You really want to find this grandfather of yours don’t you, dhali? Ende kulez vako wavalavha dhiya. Did he leave you an inheritance or something?
COMRADE MARLEY : 2217 GMT+2
Well, if the inheritance was a farm in Zanuland, he can forget about it. ki ki ki.
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2219 GMT+2
And if the farm had oranges on it, they have all been turned to zhingy zhongy lemons in Chinambabwe. Ki ki ki.
COMRADE MARLEY : 2221 GMT+2
Or they have been turned into Mazoe Orange Crush in Zvimbabwe!
BHOKI YABABA JUKWA : 2222 GMT+2
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ROBERT THE BRUTE : 2247 GMT+2
Hello there, Will from Vancouver. I grew up on a farm near Enkeldoorn. Our family knew a Doug McConkey and his wife. They were friends of my parents. They had two kids, Mary and William, who were both much older than me, but were in the same school I was. They also had a baby girl. Only it was Doug’s wife who was called Rosaleen. He had no sister.
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 2300 GMT+2
Hi there Robert! How you doing? I managed to get something called extracts from the parish register for both Douglas and Rosaleen McConkey. They say his sister was called Rosaleen. They had one other brother, William Henry, who died as a kid. They emigrated together, my granddad Douglas and his sister Rosaleen. Their parents’ names are the same on the extracts from the parish register.
ROBERT THE BRUTE : 2304 GMT+2
I can assure you Will that I do not forget a name. I knew them well because they were close friends of my family. We called them Uncle Doug and Aunt Rosie. Your grandfather managed a farm down in Enkeldoorn. It was his wife who was called Rosaleen, not his sister. She was also born in Scotland, in the same village as your grandfather. They had known each other all their lives, they said. Neither had family, they were both only children. They had a daughter Mary who became a teacher. Their son was called William. I think the baby was called Noleen or Noline – I am not sure how to spell it.
WILL IN VANCOUVER : 2306 GMT+2
My mom’s name was Noelene because she was born on Christmas Day. She had a sister called Mary and a brother called William. I guess that’s who I am named after, but she didn’t talk about him much.
ROBERT THE BRUTE : 2310 GMT+2
To be honest with you, I don’t know much about your mother because she was quite young when we knew the family. But I bumped into Mary McConkey much later and by then she was headmistress at a school in Mabelreign, David Livingstone Primary or something like that, and she said her little sister was living in South Africa. She didn’t talk much about her brother William either, he was a bit of a no good sort of ’oke. He was supposed to get married to some woman from Gatooma but that didn’t take off, then he went off to manage a farm up in the Eastern Highlands. Might still be there for all I know. There were all sorts of rumours about him, some people even said he was the country’s hangman at one point, which is nonsense of course because a softer and more useless ’oke you never met.
CHAMU NEBETA : 2313 GMT+2
Is this Miss McConkey who lived in Cotswold Hills in Mabelreign? She was my headmistress! She used to make us do this annual play about Stanley finding Livingstone.
LADY SQUANDILO : 2315 GMT+2
Do you mean Miss McConkey from HMS Junior? From Henry Morton Stanley? I remember her! She was STRICT!! She taught the Remedial Class. I can still feel her wooden ruler on my knuckles. Ki ki ki!
CHAMU NEBETA : 2317 GMT+2
Yes that’s her. I saw her last time I was in Zim, she is still driving that yellow Datsun 120Y ki ki ki. My sister says she still lives in Bridgewater in Cotswold.
LADY SQUANDILO : 2319 GMT+2
Eish but she was strict! What was that song we used to sing? ‘Thou who didst guide our Fathers’ feet’ or something like that.
CHAMU NEBETA : 2321 GMT+2
Kambo kaikotsirisa ikako! That song used to send me straight to sleep, especially because we sang it first thing in the morning. What year where you there, Lady Squandilo? Was that before or after she got demoted?
NYAMAENDE MHANDE : 2324 GMT+2
The Mutapa Empire covered all of present-day Zimbabwe and much of Zambia and Mozambique. The first Mutapa, Nyatsimba Mutota was a Prince of Dzimb
ahwe. They are the only legitimate rulers of this land of the AFRIKAN. Only if the Mwenemutapa is restored to His Rightful Place and the bones of Cecil John Rhodes are cast into the Zambezi River will AFRIKANS experience PROGRESS! Until then, AFRIKANS are CURSED! Bring back the Mutapa Empire!
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