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Dec 17 2007

The ANC meets while Blood River rages

Posted by: admin in General

Sometimes I really get desperately frustrated. Crime has this effect on me and when I read articles like that of Charlene Smith with the heading “Where the truth lies: South Africa’s crime statistics” it makes me mad. She‘s saying nothing new and nothing we do not all know. What she however succeeds in doing is to make us aware of the realities we live in and the fact that we are all suffering without even our neighbors being aware of it.

What infuriates me most is that none of us, individually nor collectively, seem to be able to do anything about it.

I’m an idealist and when I started off with this blog I had the idea of doing something constructive in my spare time to promote simple justice towards masses of people internationally, being oppressed by politicians. Until now this still remains nothing more than a dream.

Then I thought by myself that maybe I should lower my ideal and include basic and localized justice into my focus. This naturally would include subjects like the present crime wave in South Africa. Another wet dream!

Yes, thousands of people have read my articles and that keeps me going. But as far as reaction is concerned and getting people psyched-up to become involved and to start doing something, nothing has been forthcoming. You do not know who reads your stuff. Is it intellectuals or kids playing around on the Internet? I could just as well have kept a diary under my mattress and written for my own pleasure.

Now I read of a lady who has already suffered severely under crime. I am again brought under the painful impression of the state of fear people live in South Africa – in their own homes! Just a week ago one of my children had to take his family and sleep on the floor under a table in the dining room in fear of a group of criminals lurking around their house and their neighborhood. My other children are in the process of emigrating because they can not longer endure this situation. Except for the numerous burglaries, robberies and theft we have suffered over the past few years my wife and I have now finally been robbed of our children!

What is our government going to do about it? They’re going to deny it! “The picture that Charlene Smith has drawn for us is a populist misrepresentation of fact” is what Mbeki will say.

What are we as community going to do to defend ourselves against this lawlessness? Nothing. A few hundred people will read this posting and move on to sites relating to rugby and IT. Unmoved and uninvolved. Amongst all the spam there might be some wise crack comment from some-idiot-who-became-an-intellectual through his web anonymity.

So, all that remains is that I continue to insult the fools that govern us and the section of the electorate who are keeping them in power. While Blood River is raging in the streets and in our homes, the ANC is meeting in Polokwane to choose a Zulu president for the country. The only difference between 16 December 1836 and 16 December 2007 is that we are all loosing the battle while nobody is prepared to fight back.

So, to all of you out there, a very happy Day of Reconciliation! Don’t let the Boogy Man get to you!

J.C.Grobler.

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