Cold Soup on your Wedding Day

 

Imagine. Imagine your wedding day is subject to loadshedding. Let’s serve everything cold and maybe it will be too dark for the guests to know what they are eating. Yeah loadshedding. It has been with us for so long already that you can actually say “good ol’ loadshedding”. And they say it is the ANC that messed up the country.

I cannot be defending them, but for the most part, they fell for the joke. A country that miraculously had apartheid outlawed, just when you thought the chips were down. There was no revolution, not even in a political sense and here you are in a new South Africa. Muslims in Cape Town are quite divided in their political leaning, i.e. political party leaning. Racism is as rife as ever and the Muslim community is not free from it. Nevertheless, when you talk about loadshedding, you talk national government and ANC. Truly the ANC must be lambasted because they did not bring any freedom to the people of South Africa. In places, sure there were gains for some of the population, but overall, the ANC’s score is negative. This in no way means that the other political parties are better, right and justified. Each must take part of the blame. Some of the smaller parties will argue that they are handcuffed by the regulations and workings of parliament. This is what they signed up for and therefore they are tainted by the dire state of this country and many of the immoral laws and regulations and they must have their portion of blame. Loadshedding is like being hit with a blunt object but it is not the worst of our woes. The arrows that are causing more than a trickle of blood include such matters as the Marriage Bill and the bills affecting education which threatens our relative freedom. Now there are more matters that will take our freedoms away soon and those discussions are being had but only a few dare to fight for their freedom. People who stubbornly support government or any political party are selling more than they are supposedly getting. Every decision, every regulation that is passed against the laws of Allah, will bear your name, if you are a supporter of, especially, the bigger political parties. Gaining the world as a favour when you transgress one law of Allah is actually a major loss.

You will be waiting for a very long time, an inordinate long time, if you are wating for a leader or someone else to do something. You need to wake up and take the first step. Perhaps, soon enough people would have taken similar steps to a common ground. I am saying this while we have stage 6 loadshedding or massive rolling blackouts which is an invitation to criminals while also causing many other difficulties. All the while, a disastrous marriage bill is being reviewed and then there is the Bela Bill and so much more.

 

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