EK het by die #ImStaying Facebook-groep aangesluit in hul early days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit kon nie op \u2019n beter tyd vir my gekom het nie, want as joernalis het mens nie die luukse om te kan s\u00ea \u201cek kyk nie die nuus nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dis moeilik om te glo dat so iets positiefs uit Facebook kan kom, waar lafhartige keyboard warriors <\/i>24 uur agter rekenaarskerms wegkruip en ander mense slegs\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar soos \u2019n re\u00ebnboog het #ImStaying \u2019n Suid-Afrikaanse toorwoord geword. Net so sterk soos \u201cniekie changes!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die stories wat my die meeste raak op #ImStaying is ingestuur deur mense wat al oorsee gebly of baie daarheen gereis het. Hulle almal is dit eens: daar is \u2019n wonderlike w\u00eareld daar buite, maar Suid-Afrika bly Oos Wes, Tuis Bes! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek glo \u2019n mens kan eintlik enige plek ge-lukkig wees, solank jou kop reg is. Ek meen, kyk nou byvoorbeeld na die Eskimo\u2019s! Wat de hel? Hulle vries heeljaar en kan net seeleeu eet, maar kla hulle? Nee. Kyk hulle lagplooie. Hulle is baaaaaaie happy<\/i>. Want roomys . . . moet wees, huh? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle lag vir seker nie omdat hulle kan braai nie. Duh! Al wat van die igloo sal oorbly, is immers, wel, \u2019n nat kol!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar is \u2019n tannie wat #bly vertel sy was al in Swede, waar die woord LAGOM nagestreef word. Dit beteken \u201cnet die regte hoeveelheid, nie te veel nie, net genoeg.\u201d Nie te uitspattig nie, nie te luid nie, nie te groot nie, nie te helder nie. Leef stil tuis, verkieslik met \u2019n boek, en moenie jou bure pla nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 nie Suid-Afrika nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00ea vir \u2019n Xhosa-tannie om liewers LAGOM te praat as sy straat-af stap. Not going to happen<\/i>. S\u00ea vir \u2019n Zulu sy dans is te wild (koes vir die assegaai). S\u00ea vir ant Sannie jy soek net \u2019n LAGOM stukkie koek en LAGOM melk in jou boeretroos (sy g\u00e1\u00e1n jou ma bel en vra of jy dagga rook). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
En vra die graad eens in Midros om pouse LAGOM buite te gaan speel. Hulle sal vir jou lag. En nie LAGOM nie. Maagvashou lag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suid-Afrikaners is soos my gunsteling Italiaanse musiekterme: espressivo<\/i> (uitdrukkingsvol), con fuoco <\/i>(met vuur), en con spirito <\/i>(met geesdrif). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons is bont soos die re\u00ebnboog. Uitbundig, uitgesproke, rojaal en meelewend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anders as op die Tube in Londen, is dit nie weird<\/i> as jy in ons land vir \u2019n vreemde mens glimlag of \u2019n geselsie aanknoop met \u2019n kassiere nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
En so saam met die lente sien ek hoe #ImStaying \u2019n land se mense uit hul doppe laat kruip. Ons kyk met nuwe o\u00eb na me- kaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons sien anderkant die ystergordyn van epidermisselle, want ons maak ons o\u00eb toe vir verskille en kyk mekaar na die hart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
#ImStaying, want as di\u00e9 re\u00ebnboog se beloftes waar word, wil ek nie die wonderwerk misloop nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Humanit\u00eare organisasie kom gryp in in die Oos-Kaap. Hulle boor gate vir dors inwoners en diere, sit krane op, ry Jo-Jo\u2019s en emmers aan en herstel pype. Meeste van hulle is Moslems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar hul hidroloog is oom Gideon Water, en as daar geboor gaan word, wag hulle vir h\u00f3m. Want doktor Gideon Groenewald, paleontoloog, hidroloog en geoloog, bid voor hy boor. En hulle bid saam. Vir water. Vir leiding. En vir vrede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die fliek Avatar<\/i> beeld dit einlik baie mooi uit: eintlik is ons almal een. Simunye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My ma se vriendin, Susan, het \u2019n gratis kaartjie vir aftrede in die Suide van Frankryk. Haar kinders, beesboere van die Vry-staat, besit \u2019n gastehuis op die Franse Riviera, en wil vreeslik graag h\u00ea sy moet daar kom bly, want sy is al lankal anderkant 70. En wie sal nou nie sy laaste dae in die son van die Franse Riviera wil deurbring nie? Susan! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Susan wil nie. \u201cEk sal gaan kuier, maar ek wil terugkom, want\u201d s\u00ea sy, \u201cEk weet nie hoe om in Frans vir \u2019n bedpan te vra nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek ook nie. That\u2019s why <\/i>#ImStaying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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