I am a proud white gay married South African who has served both in the South African Defence Force and The South African Police Reserve for our beloved country. Not once did I allow racist bigotry to affect my beliefs during that time of service.
We did not have a choice of not going to the army, or if we where to vocal god knows what would have happened to us. Just been gay was an offense in the army those days and I had to try and pretend to be straight.
I had to watch while colour ds soldiers ate out of plastic plates while we had silver plates or time plates and could not dare to do anything.
What irks me is that I too suffered during the apartheid times, I too slept in the park and had the state welfare look after me. My beliefs kept me out of some jobs, but the jobs I held I worked my ass off.
Now, we are still paying the price of those who did wrong in the apartheid error and those of us who did not do anything wrong but tried to help in silence and the new generation of white south Africans still have to be punished and suffer which was in the past.
What has happened to our country and what future do we have left
You have trade unions holding the country to ransom and killing non strikers by setting them on fire or murdering them.
Or if you want to be a ward councillor just take them out, shoot them in front of police, its all in a days work
The shame is when a car pulls up in front of police outside a court and opens fire and kills someone before the have the chance to appear in court.
Taking matters in their own hands, based on rumour, they will put a tyre around your neck and set you alight or stone you to death
Blowing up ATM’S has become common
Shooting you for a cell phone, there is no respect for life anymore.
Life has become cheap or expendable for the benefit of crime.
Crime is winning and the body count just escalates daily
I am already living in a prison, my home has become my fortress
As I have said time and time again, is that we are heading for civil war but it will be faction against faction in the battle for ultimate power and money.
This is my extreme point of view but it could become a realty
Where do I go then?
Personally, I have become concerned about my safety as many South Africans have, and not only that we have to take extreme measures to protect ourselves against crime.
The bloody sad thing is that if we do shoot an intruder in self defence you could get charged under the law.
So let us recap
Its fine to necklace and stone someone to death just on speculation
Its fine to set trucks, buildings on fire if things do not go our way
Its ok to burn innocent truck drivers who are not on strike and watch them die
Its ok to blame white south Africans for the current political climate and to say its from the apartheid regime, even after 14 yrs for freedom.
Its ok to blow up ATM’S and thank god no one got killed yet
Its ok to kill someone for R10 or their cell phone
Its ok to drive up and assassinate someone who is going to appear in court
Its ok if your are from another party to shoot your opposition candidate dead in front of police
Its ok not to give a dam about education for an entire province, that the parents have to take a local government to court.
All this is not ok
This is not the memory or legacy that Mandela built
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