There was a lot of good news last week.
Local boy Charan Moore won his division in the Dakar Rally, we’ve launched the first private satellite into space and despite the DA maths, we’ve got better matrix results. It’s just some of it has heard about.
You don’t know about how the Hawks nabbed some ivory traffickers, the SA Youth Choir performed on Dutch TV, and Dan Mace scored a job with Mr. Beast. The list goes on.
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In other countries, half of it would be enough to make the country happy and positive but unfortunately, our front pages are reserved for other things: electric suffering, horrible fatalities, and Godongwana illusions that do not remember the same Cyril’s promise to end. open shedding a few years ago, with the magical splendor of the non-existent plan.
You know when people say, “that’s why we can’t have nice things”?
Well, this is why we can’t have nice things.
No matter how good it is, we just can’t be happy because we know that together we will end up back in the same mess.
Imagine if Bafana Bafana went to the World Cup, went to the final and won. It will be surprising, but after the SAA plane that will be late and they landed at 11am darkness to parade the cups through our dirty roads, it will not be expected for elation for very long. How is that possible?
What will that victory represent? Lucky? Opportunity? Maybe some talent and training? It certainly wouldn’t represent our prowess as a country and it certainly wouldn’t be a disciplined form of leadership, especially not the kind needed to win a World Cup.
No amount of good can make us forget the basics that don’t exist; food security, availability of work, electricity, clean water, housing, etc.
It would be one thing if we had statistics to show that in the last few years, it has steadily risen, but we can see pretty obviously that the opposite direction.
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There are a lot of people who do a lot to keep themselves motivated, and work hard to keep their gear up. There are many people who give him great praise and attention in South Africa.
We have what it takes to introspect and think “wow! We’ve done some great things here, but we need a foundation before it gets fun”.
For a country that prides itself on ideals like empowerment, dignity, and equality, we don’t achieve much, and what we do tend to be bombarded by the challenges of failed, flat municipal services. laptop, or a day off from work to renew your SIM.
Think back to the amazing day you had before the sound of a flat tire changed everything. It’s enough to make you want to go home and cry.
There are many reasons to be positive about South Africa and actually very few reasons to be negative.
Unfortunately, this is less a game of numbers and more impact. Some of the reasons for the negative are massive reasons, and we have to sort them out before we can really enjoy the spoils of the good things happening around us.
What you can’t do is keep pretending like it’s okay just because something good happened.
Bafana making the World Cup will not make not having electricity again okay. It’s really maddening that now, Bafana is making the World Cup seem more real than Godongwana’s predictions.