The easiest thing to do when incidents such as what happened
at a Curro school yesterday happen, is to throw our hands in the air and
declare that “we knew that this Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s rainbow nation thing
was a farce” or “the vision of a non-racial and non-sexist South Africa died
with Mandela”. The easiest thing is for all of us “to go back to our people”
and to our comfort zones. It is so tempting to give up on the vision of a
non-racial SA, it really is but I refuse to give up. Not because I’m some
motivational speaker who is forever optimistic. Not because I’m some naive apologist
who thinks there are easy solutions to our past but because the alternative is
frightening. I get discouraged often but I will fight on. Aluta Continua!!
Siphiwe Moyo