“I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas, and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land.”President President T.M.Mbeki.
No longer had he spoken, my beloved South Africa had changed, no longer had he said SA was no longer the same, it changed.
I, for one, do not feel safe in the SA I was born in, I do not longer feel welcomed in the SA that was fought for, by both black and white! In this 2023 SA, you have to watch over your head, you have to watch over your head because at every given moment you can have an electrical cable fall over you, you can be raped (both men and women), you can be shot in daylight and no one would have seen anything, you can be smuggled, damn…you can be buried alive!
My beloved SA what have you turned unto?
They tell me you used to have employment, you used to have water, you used to have anything that your neighbors would cry for……….damn you used to have electricity 24 hours!
Why, why, why?
Why, my SA have you turned into this, this is something that everyone abhors, why has my beautiful country turned into disgust?
“I am the grandchild who lays fresh flowers on the Boer graves at St Helena and the Bahamas, who sees in the mind’s eye and suffers the suffering of simple peasant folk, death, concentration camps, destroyed homesteads, a dream in ruins. I am the child of Nongqause.”
“I come from those who were transported from India and China, whose being resided in the fact, solely, that they were able to provide physical labour, who taught me that we could both be at home and be foreign, who taught me that human existence itself demanded that freedom was a necessary condition for that human existence. Being part of all these people, and in the knowledge that none dare contest that assertion, I shall claim that – I am an African.” T.M. Mbeki
It pains me, and I really am in disgust that my beloved country is going to the dogs, come back, come back Mzansi, come back Zuid Afrika, come back……………!
Lerato wa ha Serero…
