WATCH | Former President Thabo Mbeki says unemployment and crime in South Africa are genuine concerns but warns that blaming foreign nationals for the country's economic challenges is misguided.
Goodness used to be the standard, the minimum, not the exception. a man who kept his word, who showed up, who carried what was his without complainin, that was a man. now the bar is so damn low that basic decent behavior looks like charisma. a man who does not lie to your face is now amazing, apparently. a man who stays is somehow rare. women did not use to fall for goodness like it is something extraordinary, it was ordinary, it was expected. what changed is not men, what changed is that we let bad men set the price, and now goodness feels like a gift, when it was never supposed to be a gift
The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German farmer named Ludwig Cramer, (1912โ1913).
Taken by the Rhenish missionary Johann Jakob Irle.