I'm a sunshine mixed with a little hurricane. I love life and live mine to the fullest. 😄😄😄'I define the face of our native land' ♥️♥️♥️I am an African 🇿🇦
We’re not all from those strange Pretoria kasis. In Soweto we were raised to respect elders. We literally used to stop and wait when a car or an older person was passing.
Let’s not pretend every township produces barbarians.🙏🏽
Not an irk, but yesterday I offered a colleague of mine (30M) a lift to get food at FreshStop and asked him to put on his seatbelt. He genuinely didn’t know how to use it 😭 He literally pulled it out, hung it around his body and said, “It is fine like this?”
I had to help him with it and, honestly, that moment was painful to see. Not because he didn’t know how to use a seatbelt, but because it made me realise how easily we take certain things for granted.
So getting back to the irk: NO. Let’s not pick on men for not having cars. You genuinely have no idea what someone’s circumstances are, what they’ve had access to, or what they’re dealing with. A car is a privilege, not a measure of someone’s worth.
This is chilling and uncomfortable.
But, I get it. In a weird but compelling way, I get it.
As a people, we move on. We move to the next headline quickly. We are shocked, we lament, protest, etc but eventually ... WE MOVE ON.
This AI rendering of a story is morbid and uncomfortable... And even triggering. But, dammit, maybe this is what is needed.
Evil gets shielded and protected by our need to not want to be confronted by truths that make us uncomfortable.
How many stories of families hiding traumas and crimes of familial culprits because they don't want to expose the shame of umdeni? What does that do but protect perpetrators?
Our discomfort about our reality can be a hindrance to accountability. The shame and discomfort should be reserved for the culprit.
We are surprised how recidivism is so high in Mzansi, but we forget that we protect criminals' dignity more than the victims'.
There is a lot that is cringe-y about AI and it should be regulated.
This, though chilling, I feel it is a necessary evil if it will make Olorato and many like her not to become old news because today we have moved on to a new shocking headline.
Remember her and live with the reality that you or someone you love and/or know may be next.
White people under apartheid at the University of Port Elizabeth paid R2840 p/a for fees — 84% of its was subsidised by the state, leaving them with a debt of R440 p/a if they managed to complete a 3 year degree in 5 years. Don’t buy their “we worked hard for our things” rubbish
@PhilMphela It's done mostly by Zulus, they get mad at any person who speaks any language other than Zulu. Tsongas and Vendas are the ones discriminated against the most for speaking their mother tongue. I know this because I'm a Soweto born Sotho.