We asked you, our Cape {town} Etc family, how you would be spending your 67 minutes this Mandela Day. And your responses have left us a bit more than dismal, writes Adrienne Bredeveldt.
- “Nothing to celebrate!! SA has been destroyed by the ANC!!!”
- “Celebrate what??? The fact that the current Government has made him turn over in his grave?? Why bother!”
- “This day is no longer relevant to me”
- “Never have never will, celebrate a puppet of the ANC”
- “What is there to celebrate. The beginning of the destruction of a beautiful land.”
- “Let sleeping dogs lie….the country’s soul is bleeding!”
This begs the question … have we become a nation hardened to kindness?
South Africans have had to carry the load and pay the price for a government that quite clearly cannot run the country at all, let alone run it efficiently. The corruption and inadequacies are in never-ending supply.
“The fish rots from the head” has never before made as much sense as it did on that faithful morning in June when the news broke informing all South Africans about our leader, Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm scandal. The country still waits with bated breath for Ramaphosa to explain why he had millions of dollars unaccounted for hidden inside furniture at his game farm.
Yes, we are governed by a kakistocracy and out of all the many catastrophic disasters that form our daily lives, the most disturbing would have to be the total disregard and failure to uplift the poorest and most vulnerable communities in South Africa.
Our degenerative government led by president cupcake has caused us to become a nation hardened to kindness at a time when our country needs kindness the most.
Ubuntu means “I am because you are”.
The current South Africa is not what Nelson Mandela had in mind when he fought and sacrificed his life for democracy and equality.
As South Africans, we need to reclaim our spirit of Ubuntu and live it in our everyday lives. We all have the ability to help and make a positive change for someone in need, let our hearts not be blackened by our inept leaders, it’s not a true reflection of our South African spirit.
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The answer to South Africa’s challenges lies in a small Eastern Cape town
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