Time has come for fat black elders to move aside for the youth

After almost three decades of democracy and freedom, it is no longer valid to say all that is wrong in SA is because of white people, colonialism, and apartheid.

What has become explicit is that our black leaders and elders have insulted us and failed to make circumstances good for us.

The elders of today are glued to their seats, enjoying their control over a younger generation that is destitute.

Let us be honest: it does not benefit the ruling black elites to have an empowered and opinionated black lower-income and middle class.

Otherwise, who would protest for them whenever the political situation offends them, and who would be so desperate for food parcels and handouts before elections?

These elders have no shame in flashing their huge wealth in front of a sea of unemployed and desperate black youth.

The problems the youth face of unemployment, poverty, and crime are deliberate and effective tools for the black elders, who never had a say in rulership during apartheid until they were old and wrinkled.

They are using the same instruments of divide and rule from colonialism and apartheid to benefit themselves and their children, friends, and numerous relatives.

Whereas apartheid and colonialism sidelined all black people, and gave tremendous empowerment to white people, then Indians and then coloureds, the favourite victims of these fat black elders are young black males.

Just have a picture of this: a black man from the townships or rural areas manages to finish high school at age 18, but there are no available jobs and no money to further his studies.

Then, whether this person does gain a higher education qualification or not, he nonetheless searches for a job until the age of 35 and beyond, with no success, so he must live on handouts and grants, or wait until he is 60 for an old age grant.

The only skill such a person has mastered is being a professional singer of struggle songs, toyi-toyiing and looting foreign-owned shops, punctuated with occasional visits and stays in prison and hospital.

These black leaders and elders have failed us, the younger generations and “born frees”, black and white.

And they have proven racist pessimists true in their false notion that black people cannot govern – not themselves and not anyone else.