These days we have
become proud of things we should be ashamed off.
You’d find school
children doing shameful things in their school uniforms during school
hours. Uqhweshe njani?
Teenagers strolling
with their boyfriends and not respecting old people that is still
taboo to black communities.
Young girls walking
proudly with their ballooned stomachs and showing off their
‘premature’ babies(because their pelvises were not mature enough
to hold babies)
Young girls chatting to
friends about how good the weekend was and how they drank to death and
not remembering how they left the club.
One time I had to
hold my mouth and act like I didn’t hear a disturbing conversation
between friends. "when are you having a baby or are you
infertile? The girl could not answer and I so wanted to say something but
I reminded myself its NONE OF MY BUSINESS.
The following year I
saw that girl with a bloated tummy and wished I had said something
to her friend.
In the early 2000's
there was an insurance catalogue on Drum magazine. It was a mind map
of an ultrasound scan of a baby and it pointed at different body parts and said
something like this: these feet will one day need proper shoes and
these eyes will need spectacles and the tiny hands expensive gadgets.
Young people seem like
they don't consider this when 'trying' for a baby.
You'd think their poor
living conditions at home would propel them to want better things in
life but instead they don't see beyond their situations and continue
to increase the natality rate.
I cannot tell you how
to live your life but you know you cannot afford KFC or spoil
yourself with your hard earned cash but you go on and bring an
innocent baby to a life of poverty. Fori ntoni?
Sometimes I think we
are not exposed to successful Kasi poeople who have been there and conquered Kasi temptations or the quick life.
We don't aspire to
change the world like the youth of 1976 who staged several riots against apartheid and Bantu education.
"Ikapa sifike
linje aluzutshintshwa sithi" does that mean we have to destroy our lives?
I am no body and I
don't aim to judge anyone but to bring about change.
I want the black
community to stop and ask ourselves where are we going? What are we
teaching the next generation?
The mind your business
thingy is not part of our culture(the way we do things)
We ought to care for
one another!!!
Nota Bene: I'm not your
enemy but a caring friend!
Siyabulela!
2 comments:
The source of our problems is not only the deteriorating parenting and community moral standards, but the government plays a huge role in propelling moral degeneration.
The laws our country enacts are contradictory to African beliefs, making it very difficult for otherwise good parents to curb this kind of teenage life style.
However our country is under pressure from the international community to align its laws with international laws, specifically western laws. However these laws are perverse to African moral standards.
If you look closely you'll find that South African social issues are unique from any were else in the world. While issues around other parts of the world are similar by continent.
I am not really clued up on this and I’m subject to correction but I decided to bring it up because it will shed some light on how the world works.
As a third world country we rely heavily on first word countries and they control us. Like you said if we don’t follow their trends or denounce certain beliefs they support, we would lose big time.
They would impose sanctions on us like Zimbabwe and make Africanism look ‘nature unfriendly’(if there is such a word).
Food security would be badly affected cause they have this big hold over us but I hope there is a way out.
I like what grannies say whenever they are gatvol of the govt, “this democracy is not working for us and Tata’s kids are well of not unruly like ours.
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