What can we do to help our country stop the crime?
I personally think we need to learn from those who are now in power. Passive resistance is the answer. International support is needed.
We need to look at what they did to bring down apartheid and gain control of our country. Violence and denouncing our country is not the answer. Fighting crime is. Getting our government to open their eyes is. Yes, they did use violence to fight the apartheid regime and even though they lost every battle, they eventually won the war. But in the end, their war was won on world-support. Only if we can learn from them can we get results
Lesson 1. Unite the people on a mission. The ANC united their people who protested and made the world sit up and take notice. They organised and arranged protests all over the world and got their people to Toyi Toyi back home.
Lesson 2. Be prepared to be counted. Too many of us are too self-centred in our own little
worlds to really care about how we can help, and rather wait, pray and hope that others will do it for us. The ostrich effect.
Lesson 3. Participate. Make your voice heard. You are, or were a tax-payer and voter in our country and you have a right under the constitution to be heard and listened to.
Lesson 4. Be active. Think of all the little things you can do to make a difference. There are many. You can write to your local newspaper, the international press, including Carte Blanche, SABC, CNN, BBC, national newspapers in South Africa and abroad etc. You can send emails to all your friends and ask them to do the same.
Lesson 5. Love your country. There is not one country in the world more beautiful than our South Africa. Crime is killing it and our people. Take a look at the life you used to live, compared to what you are living now and say, “enough is enough!” If you are a born and bred South African, then you should love your country as you would your mother, father, brother, sister and your children and not allow anyone to take them, or your country away from you.
Lesson 6. Voice your concerns. Write to, or speak to the South African Ambassadors in the country. Write to, or speak to your local MP’s.
Lesson 7. Do not run away. Apathy and waiting for others do it for you will have no effect, because then everyone will be doing it too. That’s exactly what happened to Zimbabwe. The Rhodesian “when-we’s” all ran away to leave the patriotic ones they left behind to hopefully salvage the country for them after that Mug-Ape Mugabe took over. They at least had a place to run to. You don’t! Do you want to really be called a “when-we” by your neighbours if you can get into Australia or New Zealand?
By adding to the SKOP petition to Thabo Mbeki, you can help as a start. This will be circulated around the world and your name counts.
Criminals in my country took the life of my son, and the son’s and daughters of many others and our police have let us horribly down by not finding the culprit/s.
I do realise that my life is at risk by publishing SKOP and challenging “the government”.
But when I learned to sing our National Anthem (in both languages) at school, in the army, at rugby, only these words really stuck in my mind;
“Ons sal antwoord op jou roepstem, ons sal offer wat jy vra: Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe - ons vir jou, Suid-Afrika.”
Or as I originally learned that part in English:
“At thy call we shall not falter, firm and steadfast we shall stand, At thy will to live or perish, O South Africa, dear land. "
And do not take me wrong, I love our new National Anthem that embraces all three anthems, Nkosi sikelele i'Afrika, Die Stem and The call of South Africa as one.
Viva South Africa.
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