Opinion | All around the world ordinary people are doing ordinary (and in some cases extraordinary) things to help others through this crisis. Like Captain Tom Moore. We all need a bit of him in our lives.
Moore is 99 years old, served in World War 2 and, by all accounts, has led an ordinary, uneventful life since he returned from the war.
He has now raised more than £27 million ; has a hit single with his cover of You’ll Never Walk Alone, with Michael Ball and the NHS Voices of Care Choir; and has been hailed all over the world as a true hero.I think it is the sheer ordinariness of his actions that have inspired people to give, and to give a lot. He has not bragged about doing something amazing, he has not tried to gain Instagram followers by being stupid.
Moore might be the template, but all around us in this country are ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Earlier this week my son and I drove to the Rosebank Union Church to deliver adult nappies and food to the shelter they have established for indigent people. Then there is a chef in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, feeding children abandoned by their school feeding scheme. He does not want recognition, he wants to be the solution to little children going hungry every day.
Of all the things to burn down in anger or boredom – a place of learning? In that instant when you light the fire, you destroy the hopes and dreams of a generation of young minds, and you also quite brilliantly show up your own stupidity. Just last week City Press reported that in at least eight provinces, mostly ANC councillors have engaged in a variety of nefarious actions, from taking bribes to giving food parcels to their friends and family instead of the desperately hungry.I have words for that, but they are not fit to print.
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