South Africa Today, What Is Your Take On It?
April 07, 2016
These are trying times for
South Africa and the future looks bleak for some of us. You cannot ignore what
is happening to our political landscape and hope that is will just disappear.
The political and economic scene of our country is scary to say the least. We
have a party which we elected in good faith that it will forever uphold the
standards and needs of the people very high and also protect the constitution
no matter what. For a very long time we have always believed that no man is
bigger than the constitution of our beloved country but more and more as the
days go past we see that it is not so. I am so disappointed that what we were
once made to believe to be is not the case. On the other hand, we have our
trusted MPs protecting one man and the image of a party which is said to be of
the people. This brings a question of what will it take for our leaders to
stand for what is right than saving their own face!
We were not expecting our
leaders especially our president to be perfect, but we at least expected him to
be a man of integrity, honour and compassion. Writing this piece today I wish I
could say otherwise about him. I was listening to some people on the train
giving an analogy of what is happening now. One of them likened it to the story
in the Bible where Jesus was crucified for doing good and everyone did so
because they deemed him to be above all and he was not. Then the people chose to
save a man who had committed so many evil deeds because they could not stand to
face the truth of the change which was to come. They would rather live within
the unhealthy and treacherous circumstances than do what is right. This
was the choice made by our MPs when they chose to protect a man taking down our
country to protect their wants and what they are currently getting from the corrupt
deeds of our government. My plea to Mr President, like he so says in many of
his speeches that he always has the best interest of this nation at heart,
please do the right thing for the masses and step down. Stepping down does not
mean he is a weak man, it simply means that he is a man not controlled by his
ego and pride but a man willing to show his strength in a respectable way. We
would all be proud that he at least had the guts to do the right thing at last.
This post might not reach the president or a lot of people but I hope there are many of us writing similar stories of the
unjust of our leaders. Change must come and it must come today to protect the
legacy of the people who fought for the freedom of this beautiful country and the continent of ours.
I have
had to hold back on the planned posts for this week due to this post and the
challenges my beloved country is currently going through. The country is
running down the dumps very fast. Some may say that we are just complaining and
being influenced by the western world to condemn and cry foul about our
political stance today. That to me is showing that our own elected leaders are
undermining us as a people and nation saying we cannot see and question the
wrong doing in their part. Corruption comes and lives in so many forms. But
does that mean we just turn a blind eye and not say anything?
Please note that the views in
this post are my own unless stated otherwise. Thanks for stopping by. Do share
your thoughts on the political and economic state of our country or continent
or world as a whole.
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