The Zee View

Do you want to know the secret to happiness? If you want serenity in your life, never feel sorry for a politician or allow their actions to get to you. Despite what they say on the back of vans during election time, or in parliament while manoeuvring for power, it is important to take it with a pinch of salt. One thing you should feel sorry for is the citizens of South Africa who constantly get kicked around like footballs on a dusty township field. Like that field, we have been neglected after promises of greener pastures. Victims of empty promises. Politicians may gloat and clap themselves on the back for outmanoeuvring each other, as ActionSA did after last year’s local elections and the EFF did after Wednesday’s ousting of Ekurhuleni mayor Tania Campbell, but it is us that they pull a fast one over time and time again. The EFF abstained from the vote to remove Campbell this week, without explaining their decision- not even to those who voted for them. It probably slipped their mind...

Here's an article I wrote about a year ago but I felt it's relevant in light of the strikes at the Marikana Mine in the North West. Weighed under the pressure of a turbulent and difficult past the youth of today face a real crisis of how to leave their legacy on the blood stained pages of South African history. South Africa is unique in its past, a past that reflects inequality at its worst. The policy of Apartheid was for many black citizens, and white sympathisers, a hard rock that was constantly being pushed against. They labelled their efforts "The Struggle". For those who lived and died for the freedom of all races in South Africa it was the only life they knew, it gave them a motivation, a reason to rise and a determination in the face of a seemingly long dark future. These men were heroes then as many are still today and their legacy of being in the "the Struggle" brought much pride and honour to them and their families. When they had eventually achie...