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UPROOT IT!

What do you do when a tree, or any other plant is planted in the wrong place? Do you lodge a complaint to the soils? Do you cut its branches? What do you do? Of course someone took the title of this post as their answer, and yes, it is correct! If planted on the wrong site, uproot it! I write concerning our everyday lives, people always find themselves in awkward situations and places, uncomfortable as it is, they complain about the situation instead of finding the problem and uprooting it. At least you are not a tree, be decent enough to move when you are not well with where you are. South Africa as a country has the same problem. Many trees have been planted either by the natives of the land or descendants of the men who stopped by and made the land home away from home as they were moving away from conflicts at home or simply sent by authorities to colonize the land to expand territories and or kingdoms, or just to satisfy their greediness. South Africa today is a...

GONE ONLINE

want a man? Go online. Want to make groceries? Go online, Want to buy clothes? Go online. Want lunch delivered to you or workplace? Go online. Want a child? Go online. So almost everything if not completely everything you want, you go online. We live in a digital era, era of online life, parents and children communicate online even if they are in the same house, same room, on the same dinner table, want to be passed salt? Go online and ask the one closer to the salt to pass you the salt. Relationships have grown cold, a husband speaks with the wife online even when they are in the same bedroom, this opens up a space for him to chat with someone else who is online dividing his attention to the wife and vice versa. Houses have turned into mortuaries, complete silence even with the presence of 1000 people, because everyone is online. Parties or social gatherings also have turned silent, because while we wait for others, we pass time being online. We are no longer physically social, n...