ARE WE FIGHTING A GOOD FIGHT?
It seems like for every step forward we take ten more steps backwards, all countries have problems to deal with each and every day, it is no different with South Africa as well.
1. How many unemployed people are there in South Africa?
2. How many people in South Africa are now not sure what will be their meal tonight? Not because there's plenty to choose from but, simply because the cupboards are empty, they did not even have breakfast.
3. How many South Africans do not have a place of their own to call home? Because they've been forever on some 'waiting list' at the housing department.
4. How many learners are absent from school because there are no sanitary pads at home, and no one can afford to buy them some at home?
5. How many learners are absent from school because their parent, grandparent, guardian are sick and they have to collect medication for them from the clinic?
6. How many people are dead due to lack of police services in their areas?
7. How many were raped? Robed? because they were from work late in the evening and there are no street lights working, or even none at all?
The list goes on.
My point on this article is this, I have recently heard talks of statues being demolished and erected however, the same fire used on the issue is not used when we have to stand for the living and suffering of the country. What's the reasoning behind demolishing certain statues?
Whatever statues or other landmarks that were erected then had a purpose and meaning to those who erected them and their generations. We ought to have our own on new places. Imagine having the statue of a 'struggle hero' on a place where the statue of whomever you want to remove once stood, still the next generation will hear of that person, because in explaining you'll have to say, ''here stands the statue of so and so where there was a statue of so and so'' and the children will ask, ''who was that person whose statue is removed?''. In short, when we have a problem with one thing let's not forget the other that is connected to that one thing.
I'd conclude in this manner. If we remove the statues of Paul Kruger, Jan van Riebeeck, Andries Potgieter, Piet Potgietersrus, Cecil Rhodes, and the others, we also ought to demolish, the union buildings, the parliament buildings, Cape Town University buildings, WITS university buildings, and other buildings in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, and other cities and towns around South Africa that were built by and some for the very same people we want their statues demolished. With my half a cent worth opinion I'd say, when the statues go down, so should the buildings associated with them. Am I wrong?
1. How many unemployed people are there in South Africa?
2. How many people in South Africa are now not sure what will be their meal tonight? Not because there's plenty to choose from but, simply because the cupboards are empty, they did not even have breakfast.
3. How many South Africans do not have a place of their own to call home? Because they've been forever on some 'waiting list' at the housing department.
4. How many learners are absent from school because there are no sanitary pads at home, and no one can afford to buy them some at home?
5. How many learners are absent from school because their parent, grandparent, guardian are sick and they have to collect medication for them from the clinic?
6. How many people are dead due to lack of police services in their areas?
7. How many were raped? Robed? because they were from work late in the evening and there are no street lights working, or even none at all?
The list goes on.
My point on this article is this, I have recently heard talks of statues being demolished and erected however, the same fire used on the issue is not used when we have to stand for the living and suffering of the country. What's the reasoning behind demolishing certain statues?
Whatever statues or other landmarks that were erected then had a purpose and meaning to those who erected them and their generations. We ought to have our own on new places. Imagine having the statue of a 'struggle hero' on a place where the statue of whomever you want to remove once stood, still the next generation will hear of that person, because in explaining you'll have to say, ''here stands the statue of so and so where there was a statue of so and so'' and the children will ask, ''who was that person whose statue is removed?''. In short, when we have a problem with one thing let's not forget the other that is connected to that one thing.
I'd conclude in this manner. If we remove the statues of Paul Kruger, Jan van Riebeeck, Andries Potgieter, Piet Potgietersrus, Cecil Rhodes, and the others, we also ought to demolish, the union buildings, the parliament buildings, Cape Town University buildings, WITS university buildings, and other buildings in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, and other cities and towns around South Africa that were built by and some for the very same people we want their statues demolished. With my half a cent worth opinion I'd say, when the statues go down, so should the buildings associated with them. Am I wrong?
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