Sam Nape Writes:
From the Nelson Mandela Month into Women’s Month it is practical and factual for some Women rather than have an annual meaningless celebration of meaningful months.
Closing the 67 minutes honouring Nelson Mandela month for dedication and self-denial, the African Methodist Episcopal Women’s League of Kwa Guqa targeted the most disadvantaged and underprivileged children of our community at the Springvalley Primary School.
They had to do what Nelson Mandela and their Jesus Christ (Matt. 25:37) could have done should they themselves were faced with these sordid needy faces surrounded and decorated by affluent well-to-do neighbourhoods in eMalahleni.
Other than providing less considered necessities like toiletries and sanitary towels, love assured these children that they qualified to be future leaders of eMalahleni albeit their past background as underdogs from poor families. Items donated to them were to drastically change their school life and class performance.
Disappointingly, whilst others perform their 67minutes doing good for these children, others are celebrating the month of crime by stripping the same school erected, painted, electrified and furnished for the same children. Year in and year out we will do well whilst others will do badly. We are moving with greater speed to nowhere.
If these criminals could be rushed to the ICU because this is a chronic and fatal crime disease whose victims are half-dead and suicidal.
Nonetheless, Women’s Month becomes a reflection of what happened with the 67 minutes last month and to focus on new programmes to the benefit of the eMalahleni community. Surely it is not a month to spend those valuable minutes at the enjoyable Witbank Dam when it takes virtuous women to build up eMalahleni.
