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HAPPY MANDELA DAY!

On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 the whole world, I mean all over planet Earth! Celebrations were held to commemorate the life of former South African president, the late Nelson Mandela, who was the country's first democratically elected president. He spent 67 years of his life in community service, so every year on his birthdate day people are urged to spend at least 67 minutes doing something good for their communities. Indeed a lot of good things are done on this one day, things that you'd wish would be done every day, or at least every week or month of the year, many people's lives would far more better than they are now. Well I don't complain to anything, I was watching a documentary last night about "struggle heroes", people who made a great impact in the liberation of the Republic of South Africa from unfair and unlawful treatment of mankind determined by the color of their skin or background. They spoke about Robert Sobukwe, the facts which were shared ab...

UNSAFE NOW THAN EVER

There was a time where people felt unsafe to live in the apartheid Republic of South Africa, because the hatred of one to another could be seen, felt well, even tasted. "Whites" knew their place, so did "Blacks", Indians, "Colored", Asians and other population groups, all knew their exact place among one another. Something happened, something that even the Democratic Republic of South Africa fails to resolve. GREED! Greed was the driving force to many wars that took place in the land of South Africa. Europeans against the British. We also saw the rise of a group of people who were later to dominate the country of South Africa and even Snatch it away from colonizers, making it an independent state in 1930's or 40's , the Afrikaans. Yes, many are already pointing their knives and guns at me for saying that the Afrikaans cut colonization and are the ones who made the country independent back in the 1940's, hear me well, they made South Africa a...