Why is crime glorified?
Young children look up to crime and criminals as a way of living and role models.
Please allow me to kindly air my views about the lawlessness that seems to have taken over our township communities.
There is hardly a day that goes by without one reading about the impact of crime on our townships and how this has an effect on us as a society. The way crime is glorified and made to look like a positive way of life is affecting young children negatively.
This is also portrayed in movies where criminals are shown as daring and brave heroes. In our homes, another crime is played out through domestic and sexual violence.
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All these things make us, as black people, look bad in the eyes of our races because everything we do is always associated with crime. We seem to be the only people who believe in resolving our problems through violence as we argue and fight over the flimsiest of reasons for apparently no reason.
I agree, black people have been oppressed and subjugated under apartheid, but we are surely not the only people in the world who have suffered oppression. This cannot be the reason why we should be so prone to crime in our communities.
Agnes Sonti Mthembu
Moleleki Section
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