26 years of inflation targeting 'to protect the rand's buying power.' Results: R100 today buys what R26 bought in 2000. The rand is down 60% against the dollar. Growth averaged 2.2% a year. You can't hike your way out of an oil shock. You are making the poor pay for it twice.
Some things really just stun you into silence and this is one of them. There’s no rationalising it, no quick fix, and absolutely no words to console those dealing with the loss directly. Kwaze kwabuhlungu
“Take precautions” sure but in most countries around the world a woman can jog in a public park when the sun is up and not wind up dead. The way we live in SA isn’t normal guys. And it doesn’t have to be this way. That is the point
I’m so angry that we can’t do normal things without the fear of ending up dead. Whether it’s a jog, going on date, collecting a parcel. We exist as prey.
How many times must we ask how many more ?
Let’s not let the in-store experience die, guys. Go to the shop. Sample the make-up, Touch the clothes. Bag your own produce. Look at the TVs in person. Please. 😩
I know I’ll achieve so much in this life. I’ll earn titles, occupy positions and become many different versions of myself and mean different things to different people but none of those titles will ever mean as much to me as this one:
being umntana kaMakhulu wakhe.
My granny’s love has fulfilled a part of me that will never hunger again. Even if she were to leave this world, I’d carry the fullness of having been loved by her for the rest of my life.
Some love is so deep, even death cannot take it away.
This is why I struggle with Moja Love. The constant portrayal of our people as dysfunctional, incompetent and chaotic is deeply uncomfortable. It’s harmful stereotypes about our own communities.