Touring Joburg Inner CBD after 1994

If you have watched part 1 of  touring the city of Joburg, by now you are familiar with the tone of my voice and reminiscing the good old days. Yes! The good old days were packed with a sense of purpose and human values which were the shrine of our identity a sense of pride as a people to be called value adding citizens.

Life was rich with experience of our human consciousness to be alive and the joy to exist and define our personal mission, became values we upheld with high esteem and regard. Values that made our cultures and heritage a thing to embrace as humanity.

Even though apartheid  was  a stumbling block to further ones' intention to see beyond our borders.We held our heads high and continued the struggle with dignity and self-respect. Our New Democracy and the New South Africa has lost all that.

We all know the saing that goes:

"With Great Powers Comes Great Responsibility"

Our people in South Africa have lost their sense of pride and responsibility and blame white people for their short-comings. What an outrageous flabbergasted inferior mindset of a decapitated  poor self-esteem.

Current collapse of our cities infrastructure or law and order and violent protest around the country has nothing to do with the past history because we are already into a new order - which is now our future is it not? Apartheid was buried in 1994.So! why blame the white man?

Everyone was proud to be a South African. We had something to live for. There were plenty of Job opportunities, some of us thrived even under those trying times. If you cared to be educated or became enterprising like Herman Mashaba or Doctor Finger-tips we were able to break the mindset of complacency, conformity and a dependency syndrome that is prevailing currently in our democracy.

We kept our spirits and souls intact and everyone one his brothers' keepers and no one would go hungry of left unattended.  There were no drugs or substance abuse, No guns and drug paddling in our community. Life was safe.

Police did their job well and especially the White folks, they kept order and sanity to our hearts delight. Crimes was very much manageable and controllable. Chaos was never in the vocabulary of the ruling party.

Citizens were responsible and took care of their own mundane issues, politics was part of the big picture, to see a black man liberated one day. Much more needs to be done to get back to sanity! This country is out of control!

Someone should be held accountable for this chaos!

If a picture is worth a 1000 words - Then a video should be priceless: You be the judge

 

South Africa where are you going?

Growing up in the beautiful land where we don’t quite experience natural disasters. A peaceful land that displays the magnificent invention of what art is and where art is displayed live to us, the vigorous mountains, the skies, the stunning flowers, the deep blue seas, the uninhabited countless animals, and multiracial people from different backgrounds and the African atmosphere.   We live in a beautiful country which expresses Gods love for us.

South Africa my home, one night I went to sleep and woke up to a boundless tragedy, South Africa left… I screamed with teary eyes “South Africa where are you going?” was it the passing of the greatest man who lived? Nelson Mandela? What is going on? Who will safe us now? What went wrong? As I set down to ask myself these questions.

Nelson Mandela

 I see young people not caring anymore and pointing fingers at the government but honestly speaking there is only so much that they can do. What happens onwards is entirely up to you. I once had an interesting conversation with my brother from Ghana, and he said to me,” you South Africans are spoiled, you get money to support your babies, the government provides learnership programs and internships and now free houses? 

You receive funding for small upcoming businesses” It made me realize that oh wow, I never really thought of it that way, I’m not saying the governments method of running things is perfect, but looking at our benefits as south Africans we actually can do something from it, it’s not all so bad.

I recently saw a massive mall being build and I thought to myself this part of town is being developed, as weeks went by a board was put up “China Mall Opening Soon” I was quite astonished by that and the honest question I asked myself is “how was that possible” I bow down to whoever did that because imagine how difficulty it must be to go to a foreign country and start a business as a vendor let along building a mall. We need to learn something from these people. South Africa where are you going?

Beautiful Country 

We once lived in a beautiful country but it has been taking away from us. We talk about free education but how is that happening when there is so much chaos in our parliamentary house? When there is so many things happening behind closed doors? When people are being murdered for tenders? There is so much greed going on.

Is this what south Africa has become? We have become so self-absorbed and hard hearted that we cannot acknowledge good working ethics. We are killing one another and killing our fellow brothers from upper Africa?

It pains me deeply to stand tall and say “I am proudly South African”, who can be proud of what we have become? There are a lot of issues going on, I don’t know them all and I don’t need to. Finding a solution to turning South Africa around to be what it was destined to be is what we should do.

June 1976,Uprising 

In 1976, June 16 youth fought, blood was shared, and South Africa was dreadful and deplorable, what is our generation doing to make it accurate and driving it back to where it was initially supposed be? Where are you going? Night clubs? Drinking with friends? Out watching a movie? Stealing? Killing? Raping? We all have a significant role to play and fulfill for a better future. 

We need to help each other and not make matters worse? I never really understood the purpose of striking and damaging vital resources which you are going to need. Isn’t there a better way of doing things?

I’m only 25 and I see something awfully wrong with how things are being handled, we are so privileged to be a part of this beautiful nation, if you don’t see it then I really don’t know. It is up to you and me to bring South Africa home. Let’s make a change.

By: Tshegofatso Seochwareng