An excerpt from an opinion piece written by a South African:
It’s a black thing: let’s stop passing the buck
by CB Jantjies
“We can bicker as much as we want about what went wrong in the past. Right now that’s irrelevant to me. We black people are now in power – we run the government. Surely the time has come for us to take responsibility for ourselves and to stop passing the buck.
Nothing infuriates me so much as when we blacks blame Europe and the US for the evils in which we seem perpetually to be floundering. Have we no shame?
Our children do not care a hoot for the politics of the adult world. And why should they?
In the new South Africa we are swift to invent terms for our new democratic ideals and aspirations. We even have a children’s charter. But what does it all mean or matter when the basics are not in place? Of what use is true liberation and a glorious constitution if we continue to neglect the most vulnerable among us?
Yet judging from what is transpiring today, we black people seem to be our own worst enemies. It is we who generally create the conditions which give rise to this tragic state of affairs.
The levels of sexual and physical abuse suffered by our children are appalling…
…I wish to see a South Africa less dependent on handouts and charity. It is highly embarrassing to see whites taking care of the children we cast away. (more…)
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