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We all know the story of how the majority of the South African population was “oppressed” by the minority of the South African population. This oppression was expressed as a restriction of human rights and freedom. It became known as a “freedom struggle” and in 1994 this so called “freedom” was achieved. In order to understand what this struggle was aiming to be freed from we should perhaps look at the fruits of this so called freedom.
According to News24, last year there were over 13 000 public protests, 1 907 of them classified as violent unrest. This does not sound like a people that are experiencing freedom but rather a disillusioned and angry mob. Their leadership has negotiated a political and social freedom that brought with it the cost of such freedom. In this country the cost of being “free” is 18250 murders per year and 65000 rapes per year. “One in three of the 4,000 women questioned by the Community of Information, Empowerment and Transparency said they had been raped in the past year. More than 25 per cent of South African men questioned in a survey published by the Medical Research Council (MRC) in June 2009 admitted to rape; of those, nearly half said they had raped more than one person.” - Wikipedia
A few years back I paid a visit to the Roodepoort Police Station and what I found on their wall was a large poster displaying a disposable baby nappy with blood on it. The wording on the poster read: “Child rape does not cure Aids”. We live in a society where it is actually necessary to tell people this. Their new found freedom allows the men to rape and murder at will and the woman and children pay the price. “South Africa has amongst the highest incidences of child and baby rape in the world. If the rapist is convicted, his prison time would be around 2 years.” – Wikipedia, TIME, BBC News.
It is often argued that the frustration of the “free people” in South Africa is as a result of their leadership selling them out in 1994 by negotiating social and political freedom without economic empowerment. Stated differently this is interpreted as getting the right to vote at the cost of leaving the economy in the hands of the oppressor. This opinion was recently reiterated by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mogabe claiming that: “South Africa is failing to lead the economic development of countries in the African Union (AU) because its economy is in the hands of the white minority. – City Press
So we see the consequences of this so-called freedom, the fruits of the freedom struggle, are murder, rape, child abuse, crime and corruption spiraling out of control and a small “free” elite that swindled the masses out of their hopes of true financial freedom. The oppressed became the oppressor and according to the news this week it (SA Police Service) has to spend billions of rands to control the “free people” who simply exchanged one oppressor for another.
This is why these “free people” march 13000 times a year – because they aren’t free after all. The majority still live in poverty and the only real freedom they gained over the last twenty years is the freedom to gamble, freedom to access pornography, freedom to abort their babies, freedom to marry people of their own sex and the freedom to publicly slaughter animals in honour of their ancestors.
In their struggle for freedom the only freedom they got was a freedom and separation from moral and Biblical values.
References:
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Police-want-R33bn-for-public-order-policing-20140903
