Dis hartseer om te sien hoedat verskeie lande in die w\u00eareld onder oorlogvoering gebuk gaan. Die hartseerste daarvan is die feit dat onskuldige mense daaronder moet ly \u2013 veral vroue en kinders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My hart bloei vir die kinders en vroue in daardie dele van ons w\u00eareld waar ‘n kinderhart net verlang om daagliks by die skool te wees en die reg op opvoeding te geniet. Dit gryp aan die gemoed as jy ‘n vrou sien wat haar kind of kinders toevou om hulle teen die koue neerslae van bomme te beskerm en in die proses haar eie lewe op die spel plaas. Kom ons wees nou maar eenmaal eerlik met mekaar en erken dat daar nog nooit werklike wenners in ‘n oorlog van watter aard ook al was nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gaan kyk maar na die geskiedenis. Die bloedvergieting wat met sulke oorlo\u00eb gepaard gaan, grens aan waansinnigheid.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miskien moet ons dit as ‘n feit aanvaar dat vrede tussen verskillende lande nie altyd moontlik is nie en daar altyd die moontlikheid sal bestaan dat die verlies aan menselewens kan voorkom. Hartseer soos dit klink, is dit telkens uit die annale van die geskiedenis bewys. Of die oorsprong van sodanige konflik suiwer polities of dalk etnies-polities van aard is, bly die uitkoms daarvan steeds pynlik, vernietigend en verwoestend. Telkens kom die onvermydelike vraag by ‘n mens op of blywende vrede ooit ‘n werklikheid kan of sal word in die tye waarin ons deesdae leef. Is vrede nie op die ou einde daardie strewe wat ons almal het nie? Die komplekse aard van party oorlo\u00eb in sekere dele van die w\u00eareld maak die ideaal van vrede seker te vergesog.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wel, as die bloed en lewens van onskuldige kinders, vroue en mans iewers in die w\u00eareld wreedaardig vergiet word, het ons die morele plig om ons stemme vir vrede hard en duidelik te laat hoor. Ons kan en mag nie stilbly nie. Ons solidariteit met hulle wat aan die ontvangkant van oorlog, ongeregtigheid en daaglikse lyding is, moet sigbaar wees. Of dit is deur massaprotesoptogte, die aanwend van sosiale media, die voorsiening van hulpmiddele in belang van hulle in oorloggeteisterde lande wat swaarkry. . . daar is soveel maniere hoe ons ons solidariteit met hulle in nood kan wys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My intense bewustheid van ons w\u00eareld in krisis het my opnuut laat besef dat ons op eie bodem in ‘n oorlog gewikkel is. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons Suid- Afrikaanse oorlog sluit nou wel nie fisieke oorlogstenks, die gebruik van swaar ammunisie, handgranate of bomme in nie, maar wat van ons land wat onder erge werkloosheid gebuk gaan? Wat van die bendegeweld op die Kaapse Vlaktes? \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat van die stilswye van hulle wat veronderstel is om reg en orde te handhaaf? Is dit nie ook maar vorme van oorlogvoering as ons mense jaar n\u00e1 jaar onder die juk van onbekostigbare voedselpryse gebuk gaan nie? En om alles te kroon word ons staatskoffers geplunder. Vir jare wag ons nou al om hulle wat vir hierdie gruweldade verantwoordelik is, vir hul dade te sien boet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of dit ooit sal gebeur, kan ons maar net oor wonder, want dit lyk asof ons land deur misdadigers, wat selfs die oppergesag van die reg uitdaag, regeer word. Ons almal het so daarna uitgesien dat ons land w\u00eareldwyd die toonbeeld kon word van dit wat vermag kan word as ons politieke leiers die wil en ywer aan die dag l\u00ea om Suid-Afrika ‘n tuiste vir almal te maak. Dit blyk nou bloot net ‘n droom te wees, want die einste sogenaamde politieke leiers sorg net vir hulself. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat ‘n skande! En nou is die plaaslike verkiesings al weer op pad. Hou maar dop hoe die politieke veldtogte in die aanloop tot die nasionale plaaslike verkiesing weer gaan vlamvat. Oral gaan weer beloftes gemaak word. Dit sal interessant wees om te sien of ons Suid-Afrikaners nog ‘n keer gaan toelaat dat ons om die bos gelei word. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons verdra en verduur die oorlog van armoede, werkloosheid, swak dienslewering, le\u00eb beloftes, politieke magsvergrype, hopeloosheid onder ons jongmense en stygende lewenskoste al vir die afgelope 30 jaar.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ons sit met ‘n sogenaamde “regering van nasionale eenheid”, wat die broosheid vanself is. Net die tyd sal leer wat n\u00e1 die plaaslike verkiesing sal gebeur, want iewers sit en maak politieke partye planne hoe die een die ander kan uitoorl\u00ea, omkoop en beswadder. En onderwyl hulle besig is met hierdie “survival of the fittest”-speletjie, word nog ‘n vrou aan die Oos-Rand verkrag, sterf nog ‘n jong seun aan die hand van bendegeweld op die Kaapse Vlakte, word die slaggate al groter in die Oos-Kaap, word nog ‘n skelm tendertransaksie beklink en gaan slaap ‘n kind vir die soveelste keer honger, want daar is nie kos in die plakkershut nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My hart bloei vir Suid-Afrika, my land. Die oorlog wat ons daagliks beleef, is pynlik en genadeloos. En moet my in vadersnaam nie vertel dat dit ook maar in ander dele van die w\u00eareld slegter gaan nie. N\u00e1 30 jaar van skynbare demokrasie verdien ons beter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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