Black South Africans shedding their culture to please whites

The Archbishop once described SA as a rainbow nation. That was during the heady days of reconciliation after the first democratic elections in SA. At that time everyone was eager to smile and bear it in the name of making the new SA a happy and war free country. Nobody in SA wanted to see the country go into racial chaos and deep into despair because of racial confusion.

Now, many days later, is SA one happy nation? The questions, does SA act as one nation, do they practise the same culture, or are they a rainbow culture? Every one with their own cultural identity in the rainbow?

SA is dominated by Africans, who, most of the time live culturally like blake people do.Black people are all over the country and the dominate at two channels of the state run SABC. They, Black people own several newspapers and magazines.Black people scream at the top of their voices that soccer is the number one spot in SA. By their sheer numbers one and presence all over the country it was expected that blacks would influence non-Africans culturally.

But the opposite has happened . Automatically and without undue force from other nationals. Black people are falling all over themselves to live people who are not Africans. They are also so keen ,in the country that they rule, to obey municipal bylaws that prevent the slaughtering of live animals as their traditions dictates.They have abdicated thie their way of living so as to accommodate civilization.

It is high time the department of culture moves out obscurity and lead SA. They dept must start living nad practising SA culture so that we are not confused to know what is still culturally acceptable and what is civilised.

Every thing European is considered chick and modern. Is black culture outdated and old fashioned? Will a black woman, in Black riled SA, be arrested by black should she found bare breasted and eating with her hands in Moyo restaurant in Sandton? Will she be out of order if she as ked for a Mahlathini music piece at Michaelangelo?

The culture dept come out the dark shadows afraid of civilisation to lead us on one way forward as a nation.

South Africa's misguided war with foreigners

Obama…show us the way beyond freedom…

South Africa is plagued by sporadic incidents of violence against foreign nationals, particularly those from Africa, at the moment.

This is unfortunate. South Africa is regarded as a ‘miracle’, since there was not civil unrest after April 1994. The world perceives South Africans as mature when it comes to conflict resolution and when matters of race besiege the inhabitants.

South Africans have lived with foreign nationals for a long time, and the existence was peaceful. Even after 1994 the existence was peaceful. This xenophobic behaviour is a new phenomenon. The problem here is not about the foreigners; but against the SA government and foreigners from Africa themselves. 

Let me start by saying that African head of states must start making conditions conducive to live in in their country. They must improve economic conditions and make life habitable. Provide a better health care and provide opportunities for good business. They should also discourage civil unrest and wars and take steps to eradicate poverty. Political instability must be ended and senseless persecutions against opponents stopped.

That will encourage these people who are in South Africa at the moment to return home and help in the growth of their countries.

Here in South Africa the government has no clue on how to treat Africans who want to enter the country. The border is too wide open for whoever wants to come in; there is no control. These foreigners end up taking up the resources meant for the bona fide inhabitants.

In 2008 in Ramaphosa settlement Germiston foreigners boasted about how they own RDP houses, how they have jobs and money to woo South African ladies. South African men did not take kindly to this and tempers flared. Some foreigners allege that the education here is inferior, something that do not sit well with people in SA.

South Africans have a right to feel aggrieved when their government does not listen to them. But they have no right to burn property that belongs to foreign people, nor do they have the right to maim and kill them.

That is why a call goes out to esteemed presidents and leaders of the world to help JG Zuma in this regard.