Our Heritage.
Allow me to start by saying my heritage, my pride. As we continue to celebrate our heritage month, its very important to teach our children and the youngsters in our communities to understand who we are as a nation and where we come from as people. Our languages, cultures and traditions deserve to be respected and preserved. South Africa is a rainbow nation and we need to understand and embrace each other in our different cultures. Not only because is written in our constitution but just because it's a good thing to do. As citizens of South Africa we must respect the constitution of our country and most importantly stay united and positive in our diversity.
Black and white people is always important when we come together as a nation to celebrate our heritage, where nobody's language and culture seems to be inferior to the other. At a place where there is no one's language and culture that is above than the other or is been underestimated. At a place where everybody is free to be who he/she is, and trying to understand each others languages and culture, and learning about each other's languages and cultures where possible. Even though some other people's languages and cultures may sound weird, funny or whatever, but at the end of the day they deserve to respected.
Allow me to start by saying my heritage, my pride. As we continue to celebrate our heritage month, its very important to teach our children and the youngsters in our communities to understand who we are as a nation and where we come from as people. Our languages, cultures and traditions deserve to be respected and preserved. South Africa is a rainbow nation and we need to understand and embrace each other in our different cultures. Not only because is written in our constitution but just because it's a good thing to do. As citizens of South Africa we must respect the constitution of our country and most importantly stay united and positive in our diversity.
Black and white people is always important when we come together as a nation to celebrate our heritage, where nobody's language and culture seems to be inferior to the other. At a place where there is no one's language and culture that is above than the other or is been underestimated. At a place where everybody is free to be who he/she is, and trying to understand each others languages and culture, and learning about each other's languages and cultures where possible. Even though some other people's languages and cultures may sound weird, funny or whatever, but at the end of the day they deserve to respected.
South Africa as a country just like many other countries in the world has got a rich history. Our country south Africa has suffered much pain and divisions under apartheid government prior 1994. Black people in particular have experienced severe oppression, they were discriminated and treated like wild animals under the government of minority. Because of the inequalities that had happened in the past between black and White people ,today sometimes it's even hard to talk about what apartheid government has done to the black people 'cause it was inhuman,unbearable and unbelievable to think of it. Just like America that had suffered segregation in the past.
What I like about the majority of people in the world just like south Africans is that we don't dwell in the past and neither do we hold grudges against our oppressors because of the injustices that happened to us. We forgive each other and move on with our lives. Today black and White people in South Africa are living together in peace and harmony, we work ,dance,sing,worship and pray together as a one nation. Everybody is free to express his/her view's and opinions without any fear of being persecuted. Everybody is free to speak in his/her own mother tongue, whether you speak Sepedi,Xitsonga,tsiVenda,isiZulu,isiXhosa,Tswana,Sesotho,isidenbele,isiswati,Afrikaans and English as your home language you are free to use this languages anywhere and anytime. So is our responsibility as people from different tribes and cultures in south Africa to preserve our languages, customs and traditions for our children and future generations.
Dr Martin Lurther King jnr 's dream that he had about America eventually became true and we are happy as people from other parts of the world today when little black girls/boys and white boys/girls are able to play in the streets together, go to school and sing together and calling each other brothers and sisters. We are very grateful to Dr Martin indeed for a job well-done.
I would make a very big mistake if I could forget to thank our very own Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Madiba Mandela who did not only became the first black Democratic elected president of South Africa but also contributed immensely in the struggle for freedom in our country.
He spent 27 years of his life in prison fighting for all South Africans to have equal rights black and white. Today what was called Robben Ireland prison where he was once imprisoned together with his other comrades is now a museum and a tourists attraction.
As younger generation we can never thank enough those men and women throughout the world who has brought change and sacrificed their lives for us. Some of us are enjoying the fruits of their struggles without even taking a moment to reflect back and appreciating their legacy.
As we celebrate our heritage in South Africa and throughout the world let's think of those men and women who had helped to bring peace and unity in our countries. Let's continue to learn and respect each other's cultures and traditions as black and white people. I grew up eating what
we call Mopani worms in Limpopo province (SA) and pap. We were taught respect and discipline at an initiation school in our Pedi culture. And I'm proudly South African Pedi Guy under the leadership of our royal Highness Queen Modjadji (the rain Queen) of Balobedu tribe and we speak Khelobedu at home in Limpopo province (RSA). I know who I am, and I also know were I come from, and where I'm going...
What about you?
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