Welcome to South Africa

Welcome 2 ZA, receive 2 massive poverty, obscene ine timberland & such dreadful outbreaks of disease, murder, rape, malnutrition, suicide, HIV Aids, homelessness & scale breaking numbers of orphans. Welcome 2 the harsh reality of raging racism & the still effulgence embers of sla truly the prison of poverty. Poverty defined is the deprivation of those things that determine the quality of life, including food, shelter, clothing & safe drinking water, still also intangibles such as the opportunity to learn & the respect of fellow citizens.Could you consider living day in, day out, without any of these? Many heap in ZA live without any of these things. Perhaps this is why they atomic number 18 only pass judgment to live to 50. Every 10 seconds someone dies of some unquestionable causal agent that in our fraternity we would find tot eithery unacceptable.Racism is another broker which is adding 2 the instability of ZA. By its simplest definition racism is the bel ief that racial differences produce a clear superiority over a peculiar(prenominal) race, religion, colour, ethnic origin or group. Certain sections of society maybe denied rights or benefits, or get special treatment.Before 1994 in apartheid ZA people were sort out according to the colour of their skin. The history of racism in ZA is appalling, for example in 1836 inadmissible human zoos were set up to parade the sear people which they labelled niggers and savages. They were forced to do things with no clothes on and crush to near death if they refused to do so.White skinned people position they were of more value than a turned skinned person. They honestly believed that dark skinned peoples only use was to slave for them. When a problem occurred it was the black persons fault. Personally I feel that this frame of mind is arrogant and stupid, but also ironic. How can you call someone coloured when black, brown and duster atomic number 18 all colours.The apartheid was a list of restricting rules imposed upon the blacks to segregate them from white people. When it was removed individuals who had previously supported apartheid publicly apologised, including F W de Klerk. He said I apologise in my capacity as loss leader to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals who suffered the shame of being arrested for no indicate who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of immense racial discrimination.As expected the geezerhood and years of anger at being constantly humiliated set off and fears that the change of power in ZA would be violent were confirmed. It was here that the phone call Beeko was released by Peter Gabriel which repeated when I try to sleep at night, I can only dream in red, the outside orb is black and white with only one colour dead.All of this has supposedly passed and now according to the image the govt portrays the country is fine. I know from clock out there that this wound has not compl etely healed. It still very some(prenominal) black and white in galore(postnominal) situations. There are black schools, white schools, black shops, white shops, and black houses are of scurvy quality whereas white houses are of normal, scour spectacular standards.I went into hovel towns where houses are made of iron, wood and rubbish. Sidney Smith said It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a short(p). Taking out food to kids who are the same age as my cousins and younger, who are orphaned, starving and sometimes HIV positive, even dying, changes your view on the existence. If they were born into our country they wouldnt have had these problems.We live in a society where people cannot see just how much they have, but also how much they take for granted. If Gov. like ours all over the developed country gentleman gave a little money to ZA the poverty wheel would could end and the fermentation would be left behinf. Money CANNOT sort out ever ything. Perhaps if wealthy, enduring and lawed coutries showed compassion to the younger generation of ZA who have not seen the horrors of their relatives past the world would change.This is the generation which will change Africa. KOFEEE ANNAN said things get better when plenty people decide they should. Things change when countries come together in a common purpose The time to act is NOW.There are many things that could b done 2 correct the injustice. There are things even you and me can do. To quote HILLELL If now is not the time to act, when will it b