KIDS: A DYING BREED

WHAT can we say and who can we trust when our most vulnerable citizens are becoming nothing less than animals that are poached?

There are outcries when poachers massacre and maim defenceless animals for their personal gain.

The same can be said about men, women and children murdered by, in most cases, perpetrators who commit these heinous crimes for their personal satisfaction.

When it comes to children, filicides, or child killings, has reached an all-time high.

Our children have become a dying breed and the future of our country looks bleak, with potential scientists, teachers, engineers etc being vanquished at an alarming rate.

Over time, statistics have shown that almost half of all rapes, alone, in South Africa are that of children.

And there is another evil – human trafficking.

Children go missing and if their bodies are not found, families endure endless heartache.When no sense of closure is the order of the day.

South Africans are losing faith in how this country is being governed.

So clear is the words of the third president of the US, Thomas Jefferson: “The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

And in the words of the current US president, Donald Trump: “I have embraced crying mothers who have lost their children because our politicians put their personal agendas before the national good. I have no patience for injustice, no tolerance for government incompetence, no sympathy for leaders who fail their citizens.”

Just like adults expect to be respected, so do our children need to be respected and honoured.

After all, they are our hope and the country’s future leaders who will need to keep this country prosperous and viewed in a positive light.