Our past leaders managed to fulfill their promise on bringing us freedom and the black nation ruled without any punishable course inflicted to the whites in which I say with many other south africans was a great move made by our late former president tatomkulu nelson mandela.
We were promised freedom to live and walk wherever we may wish ,we got that. We were also promised to get quality education ,the kind whites received ,we got that too and many other life necessities but it breaks my heart to see the black nation still suffering living in houses made from metallic zinc walls.
Who do we blame ,the government or do we blame ourselves(the people)?
We are quick to point a finger to the government because we believe the government is suppose to work hard and build the black nation from skwatters to suburbian houses but what are we doing as the black nation to assist the government?
The government has created programs like the B.E.E which is part of the affirmative action to revive the struggling black person from the skwatters.
The government supplies grants to all who may need it for assistance.
The government has free education and free houses ,all this created for the struggling nation which is mostly dominated by blacks but the same government manages to take from the poor.
It would bias for me to blame the people and favor a government that breeds corruption.
Fraud ,nepotism ,bribery are all illicit behaviors that exist within our government that oppress the poor due to the fact that they are exercised in fields that are meant to favor the poor ,e.g the tender process given to b.e.e's end in money laundering and a little left for the poor.
Nepotism is another good example of where high government officials employ inexperienced family members to do a job in which they are not qualified for ,living the qualified out in the cold with their certificates and the poor still struggling because the people put in positions to help them are not competent to do the specified job ,now one would also define that as 'Affirmative action' but it's not.
I do however believe that it takes a whole nations to build a country and that every person must contribute in building their lives and the lives of others and voting puts the first step in building the country forward but I have noticed a big problem that prevents the black nation from growing ,which is blacks oppressing blacks from moving forward.
Whether it be a high government officials ,a ngo ,b.e.e or a community member working for the people ,they manage to steal from the poor people that they claim to be working for ,to me this is more of building a ladder made out of the poor people and climbing it to the top and when they have trusted you enough to return the favor you bail out with their money!
I have walked into many offices to ask for assistance only to be undermined by a secretary and had to wait for months on end only to find out that my request did not even make it to it's specified destination because the person qualified to take to it's destination clearly did not pay attention to it in more than one occasion.
I do not wish for people to interpret me wrong and have them say that 'blacks can't rule' and if so it was not my intention because I believe 'blacks can rule' and they are doing a good job so far.
A xhosa saying goes 'isizwe sitsha ngomcinga omnye' meaning 'one match stick can burn a nations' and one bad person can ruin a whole nation by his/her actions but that does not give people the right to point to the government ,why blame a pastor for his daughter/son unreligious action because 'umthathi naye uyamzala umlotha' which is a xhosa saying that is very hard to interpret but closely related to the saying 'a pastor can give birth to a thief' but 'umlotha(referenced to a thief) has ability to destroy his/her father's congregation' so what I am trying to say is ,a corrupt ,irresponsible person can destroy what took so many years to build within our democracy only because of greed ,selfishness and them practicing superiority to those who less fortunate ,what do you gain when you undermine the poor and praise the rich?
I can conclude by saying our democracy is still young ,alive and kicking ,we have challenges and I believe I for one am not afraid to state those because our government is constructed out of people and no one is perfect.
The black nation needs to stand up and fight against the demon of oppressing one another to prove their superiority and start building one another ,black nation we still have a long way to go.
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