A Blog about my journey through life; the people i meet, the friendships i discover and the joys of living life my way
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The little Citizen
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Your freedom should be mine too
The craziness of the build up to this elections is just too much.
Politicians are out campaigning every where you look selling promises and playing on emotions. The apartheid line has been out played, for how many more years are we going to blame colour and race for the situations we find ourselves in?
It angers me to my core that parties are playing on community colour loyalty (saying vote for your own people); to the Malema's of this world "isn't my people as South African as yours regardless of their colour?".
They fought the same struggle that you so often quote "as being your own", they died for freedom too. This freedom that you use and abuse so publicly. The freedom you milk dry with your lush parties and greed.
I think the blame games need to stop, that responsibility needs to be taken and leaders need to step up to the plate. They need to earn peoples respect and not demand it because of the party they represent.
Our blood is as red as yours and poverty effects us in our communities just like it does in townships.
Lets move beyond the stereotypes, otherwise we will always be living an apartheid that is only understood by those who created it and thrive on it's chaos.
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Journey back
On this long drive i started thinking about 'home' and how over the years Cape Town has always been it for me. It has always been where i find peace, find family and memories.
However this trip has been a crude awakening of growing up for me. My childhood home seemed small, my family distant and the city i have always called home felt different. The memories i have there also seemed old and like a completely different part of my life.
I found myself missing my wooden floors, the noisy people next door and even the freak thunder storms of Joburg.
In retrospect if i sit and shift though my thoughts Cape Town hasn't changed, neither has my family. I am the one that has changed. My wants, my needs and my sense of responsibility. It made me realize that home is where i make it, it is where i am and where i am happy because life is too short to live it bound by the past.
For as long as needs be this city i find myself in will be home for me.