Its been a while has it not..... But im back, i must have found my talking voice and decided to pen it...
So as the current news stands we have a political storm brewing within the ANC over what we can and cant blame for the current state of our beautiful country. Manuel says that the ANC cannot blame Apartheid any longer for the shortfalls of the country in its current state, and his party leader says it would be gravely incorrect not to blame Apartheid.
Lets just take a step back, firstly, are we talking about one party? Or have the cracks decided to show in the ANC? Or are politicians only waking up now to the damage that they are inflicting on their very own people. I mean come on, for one, who are the people voting these clowns into power? I have an answer for you, the very people who still believe that they are poor and live in rural SA ,all because of the 'WHITE' government who inflicted this upon them, and they have to vote ANC so that they can have a better future. Does the ANC think that they can keep that argument going for eternity? Have they not taken enough away from their own people to realize that their rivals are gaining on them because of their lack of leadership in taking the party to the next level and our country along with it? Its taken 20 years in the making and the real poor person who vote ANC still cling onto hope, hope that was promised by a formidable man TATA MADIBA himself. Is that just not a shame when you can use a person plight to fuel your greed!!! Its more of a disgrace.
I recently had the privilege of graduating with my degree and what struck me the most was the speech given by The Hon Judge President BM Ngope. I was preparing for a speech that is so famous for talking about how powerful we now are and all our hard work and blah blah blah blah, instead i got a speech that inspired me to make a change no matter how small it is.
His speech was simple, his based it solely on how we can make a difference, how when a politician fails us our way to ensure a true democratic state is not to vote for them again. He used the analogy of how if driving on the road and a sheep begins to cross the road, no matter how fast your car is , you better slow down because if one sheep crosses, there is sure to be the rest of the flock. He said he knew of a family who use to vote NP, no matter what. The mother voted NP, the Father voted NP and so did the kids. He asked the kid one day, why do you vote NP, he said cos everyone in his family voted NP.
He then went on to say that now that we are educated at a tertiary level, we should be able to make the distinction of been part of the flock or giving serious thought when we decide on anything. This inspired me, inspired me to think that, if the ruling party's able to oppress its people by means of withholding education, is it not our duty as the educated and knowledgeable, to make a change by asking our cleaners and gardeners why they vote the way they do? And explaining to them what change could do? How can we turn a blind eye to it and just complain to the rest of the world how bad our country is? By going through life and not worrying about the future of our country its naive and short sighted we don't live for the now, we live for the legacy to be passed on to our kids and their kids, the legacy of how great our nation is, and how we have earned the right to fight any oppression no matter who the oppressor is.
This is my part, whats yours?
