There are a number of disturbing developments on the social front of our beloved South Africa that make me shudder when I try and visualise what the future holds for this country, our kids and our future generations.
Some of those developments, I am sure, make people such as Steve Biko, Robert Sobukwe, Oliver Tambo, Zeph Mothopeng, Muntu Myeza, Joe Gqabi, Solomon Mahlangu, Joe Slovo, Chris Hani, John Dube, Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela, turn in their graves.
I am talking here about the horrendous phenomenon of corruption on the political front, blessers on the social front, and greedy and blasphemous pastors on the religious front. Blessers are older men who buy young girls expensive gifts in exchange for sex.
One cannot stop but ask: Is this the freedom that we fought for? Did so many of us die, lose their limbs and spend their entire youth and adulthood in jail for this kind of freedom we’re getting today?
Was this sacrifice worth it, that one man will be shielded at all costs from 783 criminal charges, that one man will build a small town of a homestead in a sea of poverty and never feel ashamed?
That a bunch of stinking rich old men from our beloved political movement will, one day turn out to be blessers, and be given a free licence to willy-nilly plunder the sexuality of our young girls, our future and future mothers with scant regard for the law.
If this blesser nonsense was being done to their own daughters, will these filthy old men bless that act, or are they just doing so because it is Sipho’s daughter, and who cares – and who is Sipho, after all? Sipho is nothing but voting fodder that enables them to continue to feed their egos, their twisted and rotten minds and behaviour.
How do you plunder somebody’s sexuality and then turn around and claim you are blessing them with cars, penthouses and shopping sprees to Dubai etc. Those same girls are in need of noble upliftment in the form of a genuine and sincere, open for scrutiny gesture on the part of the blesser.
What has happened to the black man of Steve Bantubonke Biko?
If you’re stinking rich and don’t know what to do with your money, why can’t you bless these poor young and innocent girls with an education that guarantees an independent future, free from slavery to you, without asking them for sex in exchange?
What has happened to humanity and morality?
The same dirty old men preach to us by day about moral regeneration and are blessers in the cover of darkness. And even more shocking, are the women in the corridors of power who pretend to be champions of the fight against the abuse of women and children, but are surprisingly quiet and act like it’s business as usual.
