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while many may have still beared hatred and grudges, surely it should not be so with the generation of the 90's and further down the line.
On the 16th of August 2012 a white boy (17) was sentenced to eight years for the murder of Modise(59) a black man. iOL news reported that the young man had repeatedly stabbed Modise on the face and neck. The state's argument was that, the boy who was 16 at the time of the event, killed Modise because he could not speak English. On the contrary the boy stated that he became angry when Modise used a slanderous term about his mother, not taking into consideration the two different speaking languages.
The question is who is to blame in all this?
Has the government failed the nation in bringing it to be one? Is it maybe that they have not communicated and managed to heal the deep wounds of the past? Then again what about society? there is no doubt that this is not the first racial incident.Whether it be against white, black, indian, red purple or green. Each day society continues to carry stereotypes and perceptions against others. This young man comes from a family, is this where we all say he is a reflection of of his backround?
It has now been 18 years, this country is no longer "young in democracy" its either we are still slowly but surely getting there, or we have simply been running around in circles for a good 18 years.
Mandela (ANC) promised black people houses, jobs wealth and equality. None of these have been achieved to the satisfaction of most black people. Thus black people have hatred towards white people because no redistribution was done and the white people are protecting their wealth since its threatened
ReplyDeleteits a case of over promising and under delivering by our dearly love and corrupt ANC
Apartheid will never completely die, while we still look at each other with disregard and disrespect. Whether whites against blacks or blacks against blacks. Its been 18 yrs now since the democracy, but little good can be pointed within the Nation. A lot is still to be done.
ReplyDeleteIt will still take time for people to forget easily about apartheid because even at primary schools the kids are being taught of the past.
ReplyDeleteWhat is happening to our society is sad. While the murderer of Eugene Terreblanch gets life imprisonment. The gap in everything is just so much it is scary. Look at the gap in the corporate world, in our economy, in gender, land ownership, justice etc. I mean where do you begin to heal a nation with such a huge imbalance?
ReplyDeleteGovernment will always get blamed from time to time and rightly so. How do we have pride as Africans when a huge percentage of our land and economy is still in the hands of foreigners? When 80% of the times when you appear in a court of law you are guaranteed to be judged by an unsympathetic judge of a different race? The list goes on, these are pains and scars that are deeply rooted.
We all just need to begin to look into our own hearts. It starts with the person in the mirror while the government is playing its own role in uniting the South African society.