KE NAKO - WAKKA WAKKA - NOTHING TO DO WITH SOCCER

The opening weekend of the much-anticipated 2010 Soccer World Cup is behind us.
The big concern leading up to this event was the impression that South Africa would make on the world.
This opportunity to showcase South Africa to billions of viewers across the world is an immense one, with a potentially infinite spin-off for the country in terms of tourism and foreign investment.

In retrospect, if we can only grasp this, there is a far greater and infinitely more valuable lesson to be learnt from what we have shown the world.

 

I have been reminded of the power that ‘media’ affords unscrupulous opportunists.
I have been reminded of the influence that the media has on the human psyche.

This past weekend, hundreds of thousands of South Africans made it into the news. Hundreds of thousands of South Africans who are not criminals and racists made the news. Hundreds of thousands of South Africans who are in essence good and beautiful people made the news.

Why do we allow a relative handful of criminals and corrupt individuals to deny our very existence?

Why does hundreds of thousands people cringe or run when a handful of individuals taint our essence?

Because we have been brainwashed into believing that we don’t matter.

The lesson?
This is a democracy.
The people have the power.
And this past weekend the people have certainly displayed their essence.

We have the power to rid our country of the corrupt and criminal element.
Ke nako – It’s time.
Wakka Wakka – Do it. Do it.

Kader Khan