TheCitizenNews🗣️Opinion: FreedomDay in 1994 marked the end of the brutal apartheid regime. Sadly, many are still yearning for those dark days as everything was working in this country then.💔👀 Read more here➡️
This day was a watershed moment that carried promises of a better life. For the first time in history, black people were enfranchised. But to everyone’s disappointment, decades later, the lives of ordinary people are still not at the level we had hoped for.Instead of people’s lives transforming, people are humiliated by their economic challenges. Rather than the power of voting bringing opportunities, it has brought continued suffering.
We live in a country that is held to ransom by crime and the police are losing the fight daily. Gender-based violence is a scourge and safety is a luxury instead of a right. The youths who were supposed to be hopeful today are drowning themselves in alcohol and drugs, while access to education continues to be a persistent problem.Freedom Day: Corruption one of the leading causes of not being truly free – IJRTherefore, President Cyril Ramaphosa is called on to stop the rhetoric when he addresses the nation at Manzilpark Stadium in Matlosana, North West, on Thursday. It is high time he starts concretising everything he talks about.
Societal and socio-economic issues are at the centre of tracking the progress of this freedom. Hence, if they are not addressed, the country is still under bondage.Mthembu is an independent commentator
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