"What can we do? What are we gonna do?"
These are lyrics from rapper Heavy D's song Now That We Found Love that I found to be quite powerful (the rest of it's pretty awful). And it's particularly pertinent to a question I've been mulling over for quite some time, as far as concerns the problematic situation in South Africa. Someone in another thread suggested that the symptoms may be socio-economical (my words), but the cause was political. In my view, though, the root cause is political immaturity of the citizenry at large. Along with that goes issues of ownership, responsibility and accountability on a local level, and our roles as individuals contributing to this paradigm. This is not something that can be addressed overnight; however, we have to start somewhere. For one, we now know that we cannot rely on the-powers-that-be. Nevertheless, we do need to move forward, ourselves (by "we" I don't mean the community on the forum, but the country as a whole).
So, my question to fellow forumites is: without getting political, playing the blame game or going into whine mode... What can we do fix this? What can we do to kick off the fix?
These are lyrics from rapper Heavy D's song Now That We Found Love that I found to be quite powerful (the rest of it's pretty awful). And it's particularly pertinent to a question I've been mulling over for quite some time, as far as concerns the problematic situation in South Africa. Someone in another thread suggested that the symptoms may be socio-economical (my words), but the cause was political. In my view, though, the root cause is political immaturity of the citizenry at large. Along with that goes issues of ownership, responsibility and accountability on a local level, and our roles as individuals contributing to this paradigm. This is not something that can be addressed overnight; however, we have to start somewhere. For one, we now know that we cannot rely on the-powers-that-be. Nevertheless, we do need to move forward, ourselves (by "we" I don't mean the community on the forum, but the country as a whole).
So, my question to fellow forumites is: without getting political, playing the blame game or going into whine mode... What can we do fix this? What can we do to kick off the fix?
