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Violence vs hollow political words

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I’m sick of people saying that South Africa’s got a great Constitution and a functioning judiciary, as if that erases the corruption and violence eating us alive. If you were faced with a murdered 6-year-old girl, lying with her panties pulled down in a pool of her own blood, would you smile at her parents and say that at least she died in a pretty dress? … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!

The Seven Deadly Social Sins

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SEVEN DEADLY SOCIAL SINS Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Religion without sacrifice. Politics without principle. The ‘Seven Deadly Social Sins’ is an important moral code delivered by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in a London sermon on 20 March 1925. It’s title was later shortened to the ‘Seven Social Sins’. It became more famous after it was falsely accredited to Mohandas Gandhi. The town of Knysna, the City of Cape Town and the South African Government should put this on the wall instead of … Read the full article…

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The Lonely South African

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If you’re South African, you’re probably alone. If you’re a nurse, overworked with someone else’ spit on your lips and HIV fears in your head – you’re alone. If you’ve only got a shack and sell bananas on a pavement, everything else is competition or oppression – you’re alone. If you’re a single mom working at McDonalds but your kids have no side fries and salad at home – you’re alone. If you’re rich, that doesn’t stop you being lonely. But that’s a different type of sad because you wouldn’t … Read the full article…

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South Africa screamed: “What big cocks you have!”

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Give me a leader who doesn’t speak snakes through a metre of Goebbels lipstick. Give me a leader with morals to match promises. Give me a leader who’s bigger than this mess and I will fight with them for a better South Africa. Until then, South Africa will continue screaming at the Wolves, “What BIG COCKS you have!” SOUTH AFRICA, A COUNTRY THAT DOESN’T CARE ABOUT ITS CITIZENS WHO, IN TURN, DO WHAT THOSE WHO HATE THEM TELL THEM TO DO South Africa dug into the pavement but her determination … Read the full article…

The truth may be bitter but sharing it is sweet!