SA going down the drain

The past twenty four years have been the worst in South Africa’s history. If we do not do something now, the next few years will be hell for all South Africans.

We all celebrated when Nelson Mandela assumed office in 1994 as the first black president and most of us thought that at last South Africans would live together as a rainbow nation as it was envisaged at the time.

When the Springboks lifted the Rugby World Cup trophy in 1995 before a capacity crowd of the rainbow nation, I thought that we had finally arrived in [paradise. But things started to go in the wrong direction and reached the lowest point under the leadership of ex-president Jacob Zuma.

I began to realise that my paradise had suddenly turned to be hell. The rainbow nation fell apart like a deck of cards, and the ugly head of apartheid resurrected, albeit in a different form, spitting flames of hell.

The beautiful country, SA, was being sold over the counter like hot cakes. Nobody in the national leadership cared for the electorate, but only concentrated in lining their pockets. Truly this is hell.

President Cyril Ramaphosa, as the new head of state, is promising to change things around but he is leading a divided ANC national executive committee (NEC) with some of the NEC members being his fierce enemies. How on earth can one lead a country with people like this around him? This cannot happen. What is the solution then? Vote ANC out of power. If South Africans do not do this next year; the hell we currently facing will become a lake of fire. – Lubanga Lubanga, via e-mail,