We’re running an animal farm
Judging by the reaction of the Reiger Park community following the tragic death of Taegin Morris (4) at the hands of ruthless hijackers, it is clear this country is reaching a point where enough is enough.
Crime has been rampant in this country since 1994, but it seems the Reiger Park incident has caused the lid to shoot of the pressure cooker.
Cries have been ringing out for the reinstatement of the death penalty following Taegin’s tragic death, as community members are baying for blood.
And who can blame them? Sure, even criminals have rights in this country, but the absolute heartless act of cruelty by the hijackers have plunged this country into a new low of barbarity.
I mean really, who drives away knowing that a four-year-old is hanging out by the door, knowing that this poor child will suffer horribly? Keep in mind, as these criminals fled like cowards, the mother and other community members were screaming for them to stop out of fear for the child’s safety.
And then you also have the case in Bronkhorstspruit of a boy who was ‘kidnapped’ for six days following a hijacking. Fortunately the child was found alive.
Heartless and cruel. How else to describe the modern day criminal in this country? He has no respect it seems for life, and doesn’t think twice to afflict untold harm.
Mandela Day was celebrated on July 18, but surely the mandate to destroy and wreak havoc at will was not part and parcel of his legacy.
What about the senseless barbarity of the Numsa strikers, who vandalise property and intimidate people simply because they “feel cheated” by their employers. Who do they think they are?
Let us not even mention the EFF, who think they are within their right to storm the Gauteng legislature out of protest that some of their members were kicked out for wearing red uniforms.
Video footage was also captured of EFF members gobbling up the food which was supposed to feed members of the legislature. The video by nature speaks of animalistic behaviour, as if they are acting like a bunch of hyenas stealing food.
What must the world think of us? Sure, we are not embroiled in a violent civil war, neither do we shoot down planes, but we have redefined the term humanity to mean behaving uncivilised and uncultured.
I remember years ago when living abroad before 1994, when the perception still existed that wild animals roam the streets of South Africa (so few people at the time dared to visit our shores).
At the time I laughed at such nonsense for it showed how uninformed the world was, but these days such a notion has become a reality as this country runs like a zoo where ‘animals’ run the show.
When will the government wake up that we are not just dealing here with crime, but we are dealing here with an ever-growing reign of terror fuelled by lawlessness.
The cry from the country is clear: criminals have been given a fair chance, but now action is demanded.
The lack of morality is reflected in the ever-growing problem of infanticide, which is one of intentionally killing an infant by the parents themselves or with their consent.
Miranda Friedmann, executive director of Women And Men Against Child Abuse (WMACA) recently raised concern that thousands of children are victims of infanticide annually in South Africa.
She says in the past, desperate mothers gave up unwanted babies for adoption or left them on the steps of social welfare institutions. However, these days, especially in South Africa, some parents are so desperate that they feel the only way out is to take the life of their newborn child.
Then you also get the problem of abandonment of children. Recent statistics from Child Abandonment Research has revealed that only 1 699 adoptions took place in 2013, down a huge 40 per cent from 2840 in 2004. In South Africa, an estimated 2 000 children are abandoned annually.
Children are, therefore, becoming the target of our ‘animal kingdom’, disregarded, mistreated, abused, and misused without guilt.
We have to face the truth that SA is facing a bleak future of lawlessness, along with the prospect of sliding deeper into an abyss if moral depravity, which comes from a lack of moral guidance and spiritual introspection.
The world is embroiled in religion, but religion in itself is a system of man-made ideals, rules and agendas, yet it remains far removed from a true journey of faith.
A moral regeneration will only come in the wake of a spiritual reawakening to keep the inner ‘beast’ of man’s lawless nature at bay.
The world has opted for a path of secularisation and materialism, seeking freedom in the glorification of the ego, yet it comes at the expense of forsaking strength of character and the enlightenment of wisdom.
Where is the wisdom of sanity when dragging a child to his death, or butchering rhinos or dumping a baby in the bush? Our zoo rather smacks of idiocy and personal agendas that leaves one morally blind.
Remember a book called Animal Farm? It was an allegorical and dystopian novel by George Orwell. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. It is a good read.
A similar book as to Animal Farm can be written based on SA’s political circus, because we have enough ‘animals’ in this country and madness going around to make even the pigs cringe. It might even be a best-seller.
