These here are my thoughts, the keyword being “MY”. I will look at anything from business, politics, relationships, religion, etc. It will just depend on how I feel whenever. It can’t be business as usual – 16/02/15 I have been referred to as pessimistic and many other things that suggest I am incapable of seeing the positives in our country. I think the accusers have unfortunately not taken the time and the effort to appreciate the situation we are in as a country. This time and effort refer to trying to understand really what we are headed for as a country. I can tell you now that you only have to look to some countries on the continent and what you will find is that the script is the same. We are just a different cast. Not even the Generations and New Generations story.
Now, given all this, I really think we cannot just carry on, as usual, we cannot carry on with the day’s business while our country is sinking. This is not a joke. It does not have to take guns and bombs for us to start realizing that we all have to fight. After all, most of the fights we see every day in other countries started this way. I say we stand up and fight for our country. We shall not have a country to call it OURS if not very soon. G SHUT UP AND TRAVEL I love Cape Town, that’s it, maybe it’s because I don’t let those that are referred to as racist try it on me; I simply tell them to fuck off or rather, I think I would do that. Cape Town is seen by most South Africans from other parts of the country as a bit of land, far from the rest of South Africa. Many go there for a week or two and come back having formulated an idea about it. The dominant is that it is racist and expensive to live there. But my point is not about Cape Town per se.
This, I suspect, is how most Africans see South Africa. We are seen as that country that tries so hard not to be part of the continent. After all, we are claiming that our fellow Africans are taking away our jobs etc., and by the way, we are that way. We see the rest of Africa like the West sees Africa. We don’t travel; we don’t have any African countries in our plans to travel ( not that we travel anyway, as stated before). We claim to be experts on what “Africans” need, but we only know about Africa from what we have been exposed to from the media; we think we are better than the rest of Africa. And intelligent we think we are. But how does a South African stay unemployed. At the same time, many come to South Africa to cut our hair, plet (sp) the hair, work in restaurants, and sell drugs to us if we are as clever and intelligent as we would like to be seen? Maybe we should just travel a bit, get out of living inside our heads and see the rest of OUR continent. STOP thinking that you are better than other Africans and start realizing that you are holding the rest of the continent back. Shame on you; you speak about African leaders and countries as if you have been on the ground. You live in Bloemfontein, but you have never even been to Lesotho (actually, you don’t even have a passport). You are in Nelspruit, but you have never been to Mozambique; you live in Mafikeng. Still, you have never crossed the border to Botswana. My point: please realize that ignorance of reality will not protect you from it. Stop living in your head. Suggestions for 2015 resolutions: 1. Get a passport, and go to one country on the continent. Just one. 2. Take French lessons 3. Read African literature (not much at Exclusive Books) 4. Learn more about the continent. 5. Come to terms with the fact that you are like what Cape Town is to some South Africans as a country.
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