Being a young black person isnt about apartheid. Being a young white person in this day and age shouldn't be about apartheid. We are all not immune to insanity. What we must keep in mind is that we all live on water and food and cut us and we bleed the same blood. That's all. I recently read a few comments on a picture about two young women who have painted themselves brown, I do not believe the negative reaction was uncalled for. It saddens me to know that there are still people in this world who believe that other kinds of people are lesser beings. The picture can be accepted as a joke, the comments from young white south africans about the reaction is a chilling reminder of the legacy of apartheid.
The riots in Protea South in Soweto have left the residents of both Chiawelo and Protea North shaken, perplexed and genuinely confused. One who lives in a house cannot possibly fathom the problems a person who lives in a shack faces on a day to day basis. With that in mind I, as a resident of Chiawelo , cannot understand how the people of the shanty town in Protea south can choose to stay in an unsafe area that is not fit for habitation when a better suited area with houses made available for them has been prepared. Never-mind the luxuries of having a shopping complex a five-minutes’ walk away,a police station a stones throw away, a main road that provides many modes of transport and few services that are taken illegally, should it not be health that takes precedence over convenience in this case. This is just my opinion.
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