Dink aan twee dinge wat jou as \u2019n landsburger erg trots laat voel om \u2019n Suid-Afrikaner te wees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat sal dit wees? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek klink seker nou soos die een of ander geskiedenis-onnie wat hierdie opdrag aan sy gr. 8-leerders gee. Dis egter \u2019n vraag waaroor ek die afgelope rukkie nogal baie wonder. In my soeke na \u2019n ordentlike antwoord op hierdie vraag, het my antwoord die volgende ingesluit: sport en die organisasie Gift of the Givers. Ons het die afgelope klompie jare maar swaar getrek op soveel terreine van ons samelewingsbestaan dat dit soms nodig is om net te gaan soek na daai dinge wat \u2019n glimlag om die hart en siel van ons menswees plaas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aan die sportfront kan die meeste van ons getuig dat dit darem nou wraggies maar lekker is as een van ons nasionale sportspanne goed presteer. Soos nou die ander dag se rugby-oorwinning teen een van ons gedugte aartsvyande. Daai gevoel van nasietrots, samehorigheid en eenheid in verskeidenheid is eenmaal iets wat ons psige as Suid-Afrikaners positief be\u00efnvloed. Vir daai 80 minute plus vergeet ons almal van al die galbrakery oor dit of dat en kan ons net die spel geniet. En \u2019n begeesterde Bok-span wat, so glo ek, net so intens bewus is van die feit dat hulle massief kan bydra om die gemoedere van alle landsburgers so \u2019n bietjie op te helder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
En as daai wendrie gedruk word . . . sjoe, dan moet jy ons sien feesvier! Die politiek in sport tersyde, besef ons al hoe meer dat ons verskillende nasionale sportkodes \u2019n beduidende rol het om te vervul om ons as \u2019n nasie telkens te remind<\/span> dat die moontlikheid van \u2019n re\u00ebnboognasie nie dagdromery is nie. Ja, ons het nog \u2019n baie lang pad om te loop, maar laat ons ten minste net loop en nie gaan stilstaan en alles gelate aanvaar nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wil of moet ek aan ander nasionale sportkodes raak? Natuurlik. Daar is diesulkes wat waardige erkenning verdien en ook daardie trots by elkeen van ons inboesem, maar dan is daar die ander waaroor ons seker maar net kan wonder wanneer die wendroogte gebreek gaan word. Vir enkeles bly ek hoopvol dat ons eendag \u2019n meer verteenwoordigende nasionale span sal kan sien en ondersteun, want gedoriewaar, teen di\u00e9 tyd is ons almal al kurkdroog gewag vir \u2019n soliede oorwinning op Afrikabodem en internasionaal; soveel so dat ek nie sommer gou weer die waka-waka-song<\/span> wil hoor nie. Intussen hou ons duimvas vir die span se vroulike eweknie\u00eb om die manne \u2019n ding of drie te wys oor hoe dit gedoen moet word om \u2019n oorwinning op internasionale vlak te verseker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Die organisasie Gift of the Givers, aan die ander kant, is vir my \u2019n weerspie\u00ebling van wie ons as Suid-Afrikaners is. Dit maak my so ongelooflik trots om te sien hoe wyd en ver hierdie organisasie sal gaan om van diens te wees vir hulle in nood. En met hul laaste vloedskade-uitreikaksie is dit opnuut bewys watter kaliber mense ons in hierdie mooi land van ons het. Dit wentel verder af na nog soveel kleiner organisasies en instansies in Suid-Afrika wat daagliks \u2019n enorme bydrae maak in die lewe van die armstes van die armes en wat met die min hulpmiddels tot hul beskikking wondere verrig, want dis wie ons is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n En as die einste Gift of the Givers met hul volgende buitelandse hulpverleningsprojek aan die gang is, dan is dit ons almal wat met trots kan sien hoe ons Suid-Afrikaanse vlag hoog wapper in die land waar die nood kwel. En is ons saam trots om \u2019n Suid-Afrikaner genoem te word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Eish<\/span>, maar as ons eers in ander arenas, soos die politiek, moet gaan soek vir iets waarop ons trots kan wees, dan begin \u2019n man se moed weer sak; moet \u2019n mens weer diep en ver gaan grawe om iets positiefs te s\u00ea van ons manne en vroue wat in daai stoele in die parlement of raadsale sit. En soos in die geval van daai sportkode waar die bal na \u2019n doelhok geskop moet word, wil ek ook hier hoopvol bly dat ons iewers op die horison \u2019n draai in die gety sal kan bespeur. Hoe lui die spreekwoord \u2013 die hoop beskaam nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Tot dan bely ek met trots dat sport en ons omgee-organisasies vir my die vlag in ons land hoog laat wapper. Dit is vir my een groot lekkerte om vriend of vreemdeling te vertel van hierdie twee agente wat ons nasie met trots bou. En in die maand waar ons die lewenslange bydrae van wyle Madiba herdenk het, leef sy voorbeeld en nagedagtenis in ons woorde en aksies voort. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Jy mag dalk jou lysie h\u00ea van die dinge wat jou trots Suid-Afrikaans laat voel, maar ek volstaan eers met my vyf sent in die beursie. Hoe dit ook al sy, laat ons egter nooit ophou om te gaan soek vir daai mooi dinge in ons land wat nasietrots en samehorigheid bevorder nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Saam met jou en miljoene ander Suid-Afrikaners is en bly ek trots Suid-Afrikaans! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Post 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