No right hits home as much as the right to freedom and security of the person as well as children’s right to be protected from maltreatment, neglect, abuse, or degradation do. These rights are important to me because I am a daughter, a sister, a cousin, a niece, a granddaughter. I am a family woman. There is no greater feeling than knowing that my family is protected wherever they may be.
Human Rights Day, and the celebration thereof, often focuses a lot on the right to freedom. This is understandable in a highly political country with a history such as ours. Human Rights Day, amongst other things, serves to emphasise the importance of our human rights and the need to uphold and respect these rights. South Africans have a good understanding of their right, and that of others, to freedom. I think it is time we focused on emphasising the importance of the right to security and the children’s right to protection.
South Africa is a nation so free that even its criminals are free, running rampant as they rape everyone from babies to grannies. This is the reality we are living with and have to face. We can no longer run away from the problem and look to our history of our apartheid to make ourselves feel better about our nation and “how far we’ve come”. When focusing on the right to freedom, our apartheid past, gives South Africa an opportunity to say “look how far we’ve come, we’ve done so well”. The people’s oppression is the past, it is no longer a problem, but violence and crime are our present problems that need to be addressed. I am not saying that racism has been eradicated in this country, nor am I saying that all of South Africa is free and that the issue of freedom is an insignificant one. What I am saying is that I think we get the picture.
We need to encourage our people to fight for a safer South Africa just as hard as they fought for a free South Africa. We ought to make the helpless mother believe that her fight against infant rape is a fight worth fighting, that that is not “just the way it is”. South Africans need to believe in the necessity of a safer South Africa just as they did in the necessity of a free South Africa.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Eugene Terre Blanche
Only a racist can sympathise with Terre Blanche’s ideology, however minute the sympathy. “Liberalist” or not, if one can sympathise with Terre Blanche racism is within you, and I believe this is true of Denis Beckett.
Before and after reading Beckett’s article, I am happy that Terre Blanche is dead. One less racist means one less idiot in this world. It is sad that he was murdered though – murder is a crime full stop. It is sad that our country in which one can be killed in his home. It would have been better if he had lived and reformed or if he had died a natural death. However, his upkeep of his racist ways all through to 2010 make me very doubtful about the possibilities of reform had he not died. My resentment for racism and all who embody it takes over me and I cannot help but think that it would have been much more satisfying to have watched old ET painfully age to his death as he watched South Africa become more of all that he detests so much. This image makes me even happier when considering news of Terre Blanche sodomising his farm workers, albeit allegations I would not put it past Terre Blanche. He was a sick, demented old man. A man ruled so much by his baseless hatred the black race that as much as he hated black people, he did not have a problem with having gay sex with the very people he hated so long as he was able to fulfil the sole purpose of degrading the black man in every way possible. Tshotsh’ufe Terre Blanche (IsiXhosa for “good for you that you’re dead).
As for the AWB ranting about revenge, is the whole of South Africa meant o live in fear because of five or so dumb racists? Come on!
Before and after reading Beckett’s article, I am happy that Terre Blanche is dead. One less racist means one less idiot in this world. It is sad that he was murdered though – murder is a crime full stop. It is sad that our country in which one can be killed in his home. It would have been better if he had lived and reformed or if he had died a natural death. However, his upkeep of his racist ways all through to 2010 make me very doubtful about the possibilities of reform had he not died. My resentment for racism and all who embody it takes over me and I cannot help but think that it would have been much more satisfying to have watched old ET painfully age to his death as he watched South Africa become more of all that he detests so much. This image makes me even happier when considering news of Terre Blanche sodomising his farm workers, albeit allegations I would not put it past Terre Blanche. He was a sick, demented old man. A man ruled so much by his baseless hatred the black race that as much as he hated black people, he did not have a problem with having gay sex with the very people he hated so long as he was able to fulfil the sole purpose of degrading the black man in every way possible. Tshotsh’ufe Terre Blanche (IsiXhosa for “good for you that you’re dead).
As for the AWB ranting about revenge, is the whole of South Africa meant o live in fear because of five or so dumb racists? Come on!
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