People often feverishly search for evidence and arguments to show that it is not really THAT bad in South Africa. And they get so very upset when you give them evidence to the contrary.
Self-delusion and clutching at straws are often the only doors open to a person who is faced by the harsh realities. But they are only postponing the agony of having to admit, eventually: I believed in fables. And to saying those very difficult words: “I was wrong.”
Let those of us, who believed that 1994 was a new beginning, own up to our very own mistakes of the past and admit: I was taken for a ride. The minority population of South Africa is facing a crisis – the very existence of Western culture and custom is under threat of being swamped in a flood of lowering standards and accepting the unacceptable – the typical conforming attributes of Africa.
After all, why would South Africa be any different from our neighbouring countries?
Let us never say: “We did not know.” For the truth is: we did not WANT to know.
We had Angola, Rhodesia, Mozambique as examples. And we ignored it. Denying that reality and dodging our own accountability for ignoring that, cannot solve the problem.
Read the original article by Daniel Lötter on Front Nasionaal SA – blad
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