Protect Those Who Cannot Protect Themselves

My goal in life is to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

To use my words and voice and be an activist for violence against women and children, poverty, and corruption. So that every woman knows she is special and has a voice that should be heard and beauty to be seen and every child knows he or she is safe. My goal is to establish a safe space in my community, eventually everywhere in my country and maybe in the world.

A place where the darkness cannot find them but where the light is always shining. If I could only save a few, I know I made a difference.

In today’s society, we comply with the rules of the jungle, only the fittest, strongest, and those who are on top of the food chain will survive. For many years I watched in silence how people with authority abused their powers, the poor had to suffer, the weak had to endure the pain, many end up on the streets, succumbed to drug abuse or criminal activities, and the worst of it many women and children end up doing prostitution to survive on the streets or are sold by a drug lord.

In my country where we fought for many years against the cruelty of our human rights, under the “Apartheid” laws it is sad to say that our greedy and incompetent government failed us.

Every day more people roam the streets, looking for work or scratching in bins for something to eat or to recycle. Those who are tired of begging gave up and become slaves of drugs or alcohol, and started to rob innocent people or become “professional” burglars to sustain their needs.

Drug lords seized these opportunities to recruit people to do unlawful deeds in exchange for a fix and a few pennies. Our government is only interested to sustain their greedy needs, incompetent, over age ministers who slept most of the time in meetings exhausting our coffins, some are still not satisfied with the big fat paychecks they received monthly and steal from the middle-class taxpayers’ money.

They blindside the people with government grants, which made them lazy to go work for a decent salary, teenagers are therefore encouraged by the government to get more kids every year because a “SASSA” grant for every illegitimate child is granted, people are so depended on these grants they keep silent and do not speak out against these corruptions they accept to live in poverty too afraid it will be taken away.

They do not realize as long as the government manipulates the system by handing out these few pennies, they will stay poor for the rest of their lives, being jobless, homeless, and hopeless.