Let's do it the Mandela way
WE South Africans are very blessed to have a person of the calibre of Madiba as our compatriot.
This is the man who sacrificed his life to fight all forms of oppression and inequality that used to engulf our belovedcountry.
Madiba ensured an end to both the racial and ethnic intolerance that existed among the citizens of South Africa.
We are a democratic country today because of him. July is known as Mandela Month and it is celebrated worldwide in honour of this icon.
My question is: what are you doing as a South African?
How much impact are you making on someone else's life, let alone on our society?
Let's bear in mind that our conduct is a reflection of the country of Madiba's birth.
Surely we cannot fail to put all our bad habits on hold for once. By doing this, it might subsequently lead to a total abandonment of bad habits and we might behave in a way that will add dignity to our first democraticpresident, a dignity greater than Madiba has now.
As South Africans, we should behave in a Madiba way, meaning that it is our duty not to misbehave, not to commit crime, not to hold grudges nor to do harm to other people.
Let's honour this hero, who is world-renowned, by conducting ourselves in a responsible manner, by helping those people in need and changing someone else's life for the better.
By doing this, we will be able to call ourselves the true compatriots of Madiba.
In a month when the eyes of people of the world will be on us and on our country, we cannot afford to do anything wrong.
The ball is now in our court and, yes, we can do better.
Malphia Honwane, Gottenburg eManyeleti
mabhebhana
Webantu safa ilendoda kanti yiyo yodwa yini eyalwela inkululeko, besides what do we ordinary South Africans benefit from all this besides a state of the art highway he built to Maputo? Pls musani ukusiphoqa ukuthi sibe uMandela akasiyo ixample kimi with other people, baningi abadeserver le honor not just him alone, HE DID NOT SINGLE HANDEDLY DO ALL THIS FOR THE COUNTRY.Report Abuse
KasiKid
Aggg, I"m tired of hearing about how we should live like Madiba, he is no saint and we are not free because of him, our parents too contributed to our freedom as well, nxa...Report Abuse
Italian_body
@mabhebhana I concur, this mandela guy was made by South African's themselves. Matter of fact South Africans liberated themselves.Report Abuse
Sdlala2010
Are you all aware that Mandela was in the fore front of all this?Report Abuse
nyobannahle!!!
yaa but the thing is Madiba was the one who convinced anc top bras that we must go to the table with our enemies while in prison even Oliver (the president of the anc by then) was not happy with the idea, now you must think gore if it was not madiba where will we be by nowReport Abuse
nyobannahle!!!
imagine shooting skinny graps on our knee in the bush for 17 years ouwa majita madiba contributed a lot to our democracy is true and we must thank him how in every possible means untill he left this world his legacy will remain to our children's chilren's children gofihla lelokong labo masome pedi teeReport Abuse
MorenaRabaki
@ALLAnd u r going to argue the whole day about How,What,When,Which Mandela he he he?
Behave like parents guys,work hard for ur kids.u claim that Zuma is wasting SA resources by marrying every Tom,Dick n Herry while u r the 1 wasting such resources by arguing the whole day.NXA!
Or Maybe I wont blame u guys,coz if i was a secretary i would argue with u the whole,let me do my research and the secraries to argue abt the obvious!
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nyobannahle!!!
@MorenaRabaki oreng gabotse what a u saying boss i cannot understand chief what?Report Abuse
MophemeKoPitori
That old man is nothing to me @Kasikid Mbondozi, and everyone contributed except Rabaki it so true that Madala is not a saint and he did it with the support of other South Africans.I LOVE RSA...
And of course he can't anyone or anything simple because he's damn old. My grandparents are my HEROES!!!
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HSB
jah akuyena yedwa but his the main one nd nina why suddenly senidinwa. nelson is more braver dan amadoda anamhlanje. buka nje manje umuntu ubanjwa inkunzi in public and akasizwa but he il say it again he stepped out and fought for us and yet this is how url thank him pathetic people. if you dont know wat to say just keep it shut. ngisho wena kasi kid noma bhebhana ndiniReport Abuse