Contradictions are hallmark of our struggle

SOUTH Africans display the ability to live with societal complexity. They hold their lives together even while constantly confronted with events that tell different stories of what is going on and what lies in wait for the country.

- DR RUDI BUYS

They hear claims by trusted whistle-blowers of criminal syndicates involving senior political and government leaders, which inevitably tell them that criminality reigns and their future is in jeopardy.

The President appointed an ad hoc committee to investigate the claims, and not long after, in a different case, released a national minister from her duties when concerns of fraudulent appointments surfaced.

Reading the news, citizens will tell themselves that there is indeed political will to deal with corruption. This may well show the future is promising, they would think. As the country heads towards the next municipal elections, people see the contests of political parties intensifying, also along racial lines.

As claims that black South Africans get all the opportunities, coloured communities are ignored, and whites are persecuted abound, people must think that the racial war of the past continues without interruption.

The future must therefore have more enemies than friends seem.

Then South Africans teams with diverse players and even more diverse supporters achieve remarkable success on the international stage, illustrating that South Africans are more together and distant.