In South Africa we have watched a quiet but relentless slide into lawlessness. Jumping traffic lights has become commonplace. Driving under the influence is often treated lightly. Pedestrians cross roads with little regard for the danger. Informal settlements spring up overnight on any open piece of land. Illegal electricity connections are no longer treated as serious offences - they are simply accepted as part of daily life. Informal traders claim pavements and intersections as their own. Prisoners somehow manage to keep smartphones. Driving without a licence is widespread.
One could go on forever. The point is simple: there has been a clear breakdown in law and order.
On the surface, the relaxation of rules is understandable. For decades, harsh and often humiliating laws targeted black South Africans in particular. So society swung from one extreme to the other, from rigid control to an “anything goes” environment.
In many ways this chaos is presented as freedom, the freedom that was denied to the majority for so long. We even open our borders to illegal immigration with the argument: “They took us in when we were running from the apartheid police.” A noble memory, but a problematic policy.
I once listened to a Minister of Correctional Services speaking about prisoners. The minister spoke much like a principal talking about learners, our collective duty to help them reach their full potential. The fact that some of these individuals were rapists, hardened killers and career criminals seemed to fade behind the focus on rehabilitation. We appear to have confused ordinary criminals with the political prisoners of the past. In our emphasis on ubuntu there is often little room left for the discipline that law and order require. It is as if, as a nation, we struggle to hold both compassion and consequences together.
This confused state is not progressive. It is setting us backwards. I know of no country that has ever become successful on a foundation of chaos. We urgently need to strike the right balance, one that honours our painful history without using it as a permanent excuse to abandon the very rules that keep a society from falling apart. #ProudlySA
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Our value in this world is not what we know but what we do with what we know.
This thought has been on my heart while mentoring capable people who feel stuck in their careers. Many respond by enrolling for another degree - an MBA or similar - hoping it will unlock the next level. Yet qualifications alone rarely address the real barriers to upward mobility.
Knowledge is valuable, but it only becomes powerful when we apply it differently. The breakthrough often lies not in accumulating more information, but in looking within and asking: What must I do differently? What habits, mindsets, or actions have I been avoiding?
I have seen that those who progress are the ones who turn insight into deliberate change - in how they show up, lead, communicate, and take ownership. Degrees can open doors, but it is what we do with what we already know that moves us forward.
What knowledge are you sitting on that is waiting for you to act on it differently today?
Let us be people of impact, not just additional certificates.
#WisdomInAction #ReflectAndAct
Padayachee (IDAC) working with a magistrate committed the worse offence which might have been possible during apartheid state of emergency. They set bail conditions in Mokwele case that were not put to the accused to contest. It's total subversion of the Constitution. #Madlanga
@Jarrod_Delport What is the end game? Rated highly financially sustainable to whose benefit. That highly financially sustainable must benefit everyone from rural to township and urban areas.
@KMahasha64459@GaytonMcK I hear you. Those entrusted with public power have not acquitted themselves well, and that has affected all of us. However, I do not think the answer is programs that deliberately exclude others. We should be working towards solutions that unites , not divide us further
@WernerHuman18 My point is simple. let's all work for SA, not for a select few, regardless of how strongly we disagree. If we put factional interests above the national interest, we all lose. That path is ultimately fatal to our country's future.
@WernerHuman18 you'll agree that disagreements are inevitable at every level. That's why dialogue matters. We should engage on areas of disagreement and be willing to be persuaded by objective facts. President Ramaphosa made a genuine effort to engage on behalf of SA.