Nog \u2019n voorspelbare Suid-Afrikaanse Februarie is verby \u2013 weerstoestande en die 2 518,33 gemiddelde moorde die afgelope drie maande uitgesluit. Soos altyd was daar gans te veel opgewondenheid en voorspellings in afwagting op die Staatsrede, Valentynsdagviering en die begroting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar was niks nuuts in aanloop tot die onderskeie datums nie; op die dag self ook niks en agterna het ook pure niks tot die algemene welsyn van die nasie bygedra nie. Dus ook, soos al die baie jare voor 2023, weer net woorde in die wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die enigstes wat by Februarie se jaarlikse drie hoogtepunte gebaat het, was die sakeondernemings en organisasies waar aankope gedoen is om uitvoering te gee aan die eise van die spesifieke dag. Die uitgawes vir die staats- en begrotingsrede het alles weer uit die reeds bankrot staatskas gekom en sekerlik het alles nie \u2019n veilige landingsplek gehad nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die meeste wat Valentynsdag gevier het, het geen idee wat die oorsprong en rede daarvoor is nie en soos voorheen het sommige ook weer belaglikhede aangevang en aan die groot klok gehang vir oe\u2019s en aa\u2019s van die res van die w\u00eareld. Baie se kredietkaarte het ook nog meer pyn en lyding bygekry \u2013 \u00e1lles tog so voorspel\u00adbaar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die enigste nuwigheid in die tradisionele Februarie-gebeurtenisse is dat dit afgesluit het met rakke vol allerhande Paas-goetertjies en dingetjies wat Maart aan die hardloop gesit het met Paasfees, wat eers oor \u2019n maand is. Die uitstallings is mooitjies langs en tussenin die reste van Valentynstjoklits en dinge \u2013 alles teen \u2019n spesiale prys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die regtige groot andersheid in die eendersheid van die Februarie is Andr\u00e9 de Ruyter se verwagte afdanking of gedwonge vroegtydige uittrede by Eskom. Selfs d\u00edt was eintlik ook maar die gewone optrede van die ANC-mafia gedurende elke maand die afgelope baie jare. Indien iemand \u2019n geluid maak of iets doen waarvan jy nie hou nie, raak jy \u00f3f wettig, maar meermale onwettig, en onregverdig ontslae van die pyn in jou agterkant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 wat met hul lewe daarvan afkom, is besonder gelukkig, maar veilig vir h\u00f3\u00e9 lank? Skurke het niks te vrees van Die Hoed aan bewind van die oorgrote meerderheid blinde en dowe polisie nie \u2013 diesulkes wat so mooi vertoon met hul skraal lywe in hul effe te klein erg styfpassende uniforms; almal atleties gebou en super-fiks om gemaklik die skurke in te hardloop en aan te keer. En di\u00e9 wat per voertuig daar is, se bestuursvernuf is \u2019n raps duskant di\u00e9 van Lewis Hamilton. So? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met al die woelinge in die donkerte van die donker tye in Suid-Afrika, geskep deur mense met donker denke en ongevoelige harte, is ek nou waar my skoonma op \u2019n tyd in haar lewe was toe sy ges\u00ea het \u201cmy kind, om hier uit te hou, moet \u2019n mens moed soos \u2019n bees h\u00ea\u201d. Ek ken nie beeste nie, maar sy het Engels grootgeword in die Oos-Kaap, in die tyd toe hul vervoermiddels nog ossewaens was, dus het \u2019n mens nie van haar opinie verskil nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van geen hulp vir my aanbevole \u201cbeesmoed\u201d is die absoluut verfrissende nuus wat elke dag \u2013 selfs op oorsese nuuskanale \u2013 verkondig word oor ons land se kundigheid om te steel \u00e9n te verwoes \u00e9n te verniel \u00e9n te minag. Om oral te hoor en te sien hoe die gemors waarin ons is, elke dag groter word, is nie goed vir \u2019n denkende en lojale Suid-Afrikaner nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir die res maak dit nie saak nie, want soos Adrien s\u00ea: \u201cAs \u2019n mens mos niks weet nie, is alles mos goed\u201d. En so is alles mos goed vir miljoene suurstofdiewe in ons land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoedat dit gekom het dat ek myself nou in \u2019n Kilimanjaro-grootte mismoed in geskryf het, weet slim ekke nie. Dis nie asof ek nie gedurende die wonderlike onderhandelingsproses, waarvoor ek nie gestem het nie, nie besef het dat die regering van die dag ons op \u2019n gevaarlike pad laat inrangeer nie. As gebore optimis het ek egter gehoop dit sal nie wees nie en geglo daaruit sal iets baie goeds gebore word. Nou sit ek ook, soos di\u00e9 wat oortuig was dis die roete op pad Lotus-land toe, in Dingesstraat. En wie kom toe daar? Buiten politici en hul kaders ook di\u00e9 wat niks het om te verloor nie en dus nie omgee om op gewelddadige wyse te vat van di\u00e9 wat wel het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omdat dit net Hester en ek hier in die huis op die bult is \u2013 saam met my kinders se wegloopkat \u2013 is die gesprekke eensydig. Ek alleen bepaal dus hoedat ek die lewe gaan leef en wat ek gaan doen met die duisternis rondom my, en besef dat ek nie net ter wille van my selfbehoud nie, maar ook ter wille van ander vir wie ek verantwoordelik is om \u2019n rigtingwyser te wees, na die Bybelse \u201cbeter en uitnemender weg\u201d moet kyk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ek onthou my skoonma se ander s\u00eading: \u201cEk ken donker m\u00f4res, my kind, maar die lig kom altyd weer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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