Series: State of the Country!

We have just passed another line marked:"14 years of Freedom and Democracy" in South Africa.
The question on everyone's lips should be: 'Are we truly free after these years of 'freedom'? I believe that true freedom will come when all that presents or represents Apartheid in our society has been dealt with properly. By this I mean transformation. How awkward it is that reconciliation in our country has been mainly and ridiculously one-sided.

When blacks talked reconciliation they were welcomed since it was benefiting the former oppressor. Now, when blacks mention transformation of the judicial system, institutions of higher learning, etc., they are told that they are blaming Apartheid for everything.

However, it is the very white man today that, whenever there is a small problem here or there in the country, complains first. The recent power cuts have been a talk in the country. I have heard white people complain so many times about 'these people' who cannot run the country.

The question I pose today, to you my fellow country-men is simple: Please let me know: How many times did you register your complains when the black nation was murdered?

Did you even dare move your tongue one inch when 1976 happened? What about 1960 Sharpeville massacre?
Or were you too comfortable and too busy studying for a Bachelor's degree in some 'Whites Only' University? After which you would go to the 'whites only beach'? All these in Africa?

Will reconciliation fully be without our fellow white South Africans leading this campaign? I submit to you my friends that it is not only unnatural and arrogant but it is also very disgusting that someone torture you today, and you forgive them only so they can torture you back in another way with arrogance and unrestrained, unreasonable complaints.

Its amazing that we don't hear much noise from their quarters when their fellow whites continuously commit racist acts such as those observed in the University of Free State, let alone those observed in the North West when a young white boy went on a shooting spree on blacks.

Now it makes me wonder if my fellow South Africans have any conscience towards a black man. Maybe we should really ask this question: Are our white counterparts really changed or are they only hiding their true selves inwards only to be revealed whenever anything seems to dissatisfy them such as the power-cuts?