Let our youth govern SA

IT IS admirable that the children of Soweto had the courage of their conviction to, unarmed, confront the armed forces of PW Botha in the bloodiest and most shameful clashes in South Africa’s quest for freedom.

Those brave young lions who after considering their parents’ futile efforts to free them from the yoke of apartheid, decided to have a shot at the Afrikaner establishment.

Surely, it is time to let them govern our country.

The born-frees accessed proper tertiary education whereas we were subjected to gutter education and denied the pleasure of enjoying the fruits of vast reserves of resources plundered by a selfish white minority.

Isn’t it time that these two entities amalgamate to form a new political party?

Clearly, to keep their legacy alive, we owe it to them and ourselves to show them just how innovative we can be in ridding our country of the impasse where fraud and corruption flourishes?

Seeing the current incumbents made such a monumental mess of things, the time has come for Parliament to disband, to bow out gracefully allowing the 1976 survivors and the born-frees to govern.

With our country on the brink of bankruptcy, heaven alone knows what will still come to light with the many commissions into state capture.

In as much as the 1976 uprising was the genesis of the dismantling of the powerful stranglehold the nationalists had on the overwhelmingly disenfranchised population, it is an imperative that the 1976 survivors amalgamate with born-frees, thus giving birth to a political entity that will usher in a new era in the South African narrative.