Put money where your mouth is, Mr Minister

We do make instant judgements of the people with whom we interact. That is our nature. And nothing is more instantly obvious than the colour of one’s skin. The challenge is not to have that judgement followed by the taking of offence and thus have our judgement and our conduct negatively affected.

I am under no obligation to “like” any person or body of people. But social cohesion could be improved if we all learnt the discipline that obliges us to be civil to each other: and our interest, should there be an interest, should be on the human and the positive in the other person/s.

Racial incidents will always occur, unfortunately, and can be met, for instance, by large fines and imprisonment for the use of the k-word. The other k-word, as yet unpunished, is the word “kill”.

And overcoming the injustices of the past? These injustices were readily observable pre-1994 because they were pervasive at all levels in government and society at large. These injustices created and perpetuated poverty, and afforded protected employment and access to public funds for a small minority of our population.

If this sounds familiar, it is because it has been repeated and is still being repeated by the ANC government.

This has had calamitous consequences, causing conflicts that arise from desperation as the conditions for sustaining life are degraded.

There is no doubt that the dream of the present generation has gone.

Get real, Mr Minister, and accept a reduction of 50% of your salary. And show us that you can use the 50% in the interests of “social cohesion”. |