Striving for peace and unity in a divided South Africa

“PEACE on earth, good will toward men.” We hear this phrase quite often, but in our land, it appears to be evaporating before our eyes. We wonder how our people have been able to overcome poverty and hardships despite the severity of the issues at stake.

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Irrespective of your colour or political affiliation, do not relent in your quest for continuous sustenance of peace and unity among us all. It is only on the basis of this that our potentials can be realised.

South Africa is our country and we are all duty-bound to protect it no matter the circumstances.

Let us all join hands together to ensure that the future of generations to come is assured. Let us hand over to them a future free of violence, racial prejudice, rampant corruption, and political bigotry. Our beleaguered souls seek calm amid the storm, peace among the chaos; we turn on the news and see another upsetting story unfolding across our battered landscape.

Approaches to peacebuilding and fragility must focus not only on the security dimension but also on the underlying causes and consequences that characterise our grotesquely imbalanced society.