Soula Foord writes:
I read with interest the letters from a gentleman regarding the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and racism.
READ:
LETTER: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will live on forever in our hearts
LETTER: Racism is still deeply rooted in us
As an adult, things started changing and I warmed to the kind-faced FW de Klerk.
I remember lifting my glass as a tear found its way down the side of my face the day Nelson Mandela walked out of prison next to the woman who had fought alongside him for the right of their people to be able to sit on the same park bench and their children to be able to go to the same schools.
They got it right, and the picture of de Klerk and Mandela shaking hands is firmly imprinted in my mind.
I cherish the new flag and sing the new anthem with pride.
Madikizela-Mandela suffered a lot as the boys in blue crimplene would come in the night and throw her in the back of a van with no consideration for her children, and even as she sat for the longest time in solitary confinement, she had the spirit of a lioness.
Their dream was not to be though, as greed reared its ugly head, and a better life for the people is still far from being realised.
If we are to make anything of this country we have to move on, and as an individual, I pledge to make South Africa, my country of birth, a better place.
Sorry if anyone wants me gone and back to Europe. I won’t go anywhere and I am sure a lot of people feel the same way I do, but racism in any form against any race, corruption and crime must stop and the perpetrators thereof have to be punished.
And only then can we live in the best country in the world.
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