To all who have read and commented I thank you. Your comments and input are much appreciated.
To Henning, let me assure you that although you may disagree with my assessment and I with yours I was born in Pretoria, grew up in Johannesburg, did 2 years national service, camps in the townships and besides a few holidays abroad have lived my entire life in South Africa.
And allow me to add this from my blog…
So do I keep complaining and lamenting and wondering what is happening in the minds of the people perpetrating this violence or maybe I should go and interview one of the attackers? Maybe I should hear in their words what could possibly cause so much hatred and anger that you can murder a man who yesterday was your neighbour, rape a woman you may have travelled to work with last week and make homeless thousands of innocent children who had no part in the decisions taken by their parents? To me it all seems inconceivable, but then I wake up every morning with food in the fridge, a little money in the bank, two cars in the garage, a job to go to and a school for my children. My father always said “Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes… that way by the time he realises you are judging him you will be two miles away and have his shoes!” My father is a wise man.
