Crime is Out of hand but we can nip it on the roots.

                                                      

                                                           picture by South African crime quotes

The have been a pragmatic increased in the deviant act across South Africa. The Statistics are puzzling and the question to ponder is; has South Africa turned out to be world`s crime capital. It is arguable that Crime is a prominent issue in South Africa. South Africa has an extraordinarily high rate of murders, assaults, rapes (adult, child and infant), and other crimes compared to most countries. In 2005 South Africa was ranked 3^rd in the world on murder rates and I was puzzled to see that Around 50 people were murdered in South Africa each day.

In 2009 the police official data showed that there has been a decreased in murder rates and this reduction was due to improvements in the criminal justice system and policing. In contrast, there has been a vast increase in violence crime in South Africa. A survey for the period 1998–2009 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime categorized South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. Total crime per capita was 10th out of the 60 countries in the dataset. The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute have also led research on the victims of crime which shows the image of South African crime as more distinctive of a developing country.

We perceive these Statistics as conventional quantities and we yield them for Granted. They reflect an unevenly territory in this country and clearly, the display reality including the fact that they exclude the unreported deviant act. The focus has been proven to be ineffective as results; the reported deviant acts keep on mounting up the cliff. One may ask, “What is the problem?”

Well, we don`t need a Rocket scientist to figure it out. Mostly, we try to eradicate a tree by cutting off its branches not the roots. The have been a little focus on ruling out the source of crime and interim contrary to it, in fact; there is a little acquaintance about the sources as compared to the deviant acts.

The deviant acts in this country are mainly due to strains. Strains refer to events or conditions that are disliked by an individual. For instance, class comparison is one of the causes of strains. The gap between the rich and the underprivileged in South Africa is widening up daily. As a result, most people still lives in squatter camps confronted by poverty everyday. Poverty denotes the state of lacking adequate means to live. Such people feel deprived form the economy. A person can be in economic deprivation from any of three perspectives, namely: their income, expenditure/consumption, or asset possession.  These three perspectives are evident in the discourse on poverty. Therefore, people try to find other means of departing from poverty thus; crime is a perfect scapegoat at some point. Most people engage in deviant behavior for survival however this fails to elaborate some cases such rape.

In addition, one fact that is uncontroversial is that inequality is extraordinarily high.  South Africa’s Gini coefficient is almost certainly amongst the highest in the world (not the highest though, as is commonly reported).  A consequence of this high inequality is that South Africa has higher poverty rates than many other countries with comparable average income levels.  While inequality between race groups is still very high, it has been declining of late, while inequality within race groups has been increasing. Such factors have played a gigantic stimulus in crime rates in South Africa.

Therefore, The easy way to deviant act it not to formulate policies or other forms of punishment rather find the source of this deviant acts and deal with them and surely, that will act as a huge reagent in fighting crimes. Employing more police officials won`t help in a long run rather empower the society in order to change their living conditions. Invest in education not because you want to keep children away from home but for the good of the country as a whole.

We need good parenting in this world!!!

I as an observer, I have been observing certain activities that have became our daily life. Some of them are good and some are bad. My only concern is the abuse of the phrase “its fine”. One ought to ask that, what I am talking about. Let me give you a glimpse: A teenager is leaving his/her crib in the evening. On his/her way out him passes by his parents. They asked where you off to are.  Truthfully, the teenager respond, am off to a party and I will see you tomorrow. The parents respond with shockingly shocking statements such as “Make sure you have condoms on your pockets”. All I can say is good parenting.


How many parents out there do convey their children to abstain instead of condomizing.  Statistics advocate that there has been an exponential increase in the rate of teenage pregnancy and we complain and threw words like stones to the government. Am not an ANC member but I think we have to cut some slag for them. If you as a parent, you can’t stop your children from engaging in sexual intercourse, how can the government stop them? Do you know what’s in your children cellphone? Teenagers spend the entire evening chatting with strangers and the next day spent sleeping in class. All of these things happen underneath our muzzles and yet we still have guts to say “its fine” what is fine about it? The time spent by teenagers on TV is more than the time spent on books yet parents say “Its fine”. Several teachers have raised a concern due to their kids failing write correct spelling due to sms short cut language. In addition, some children don`t know how to read but they know how to memorize all the TV adverts in contrast parents will say my child is cleaver. Some teenagers beat up their teachers and the least parents do is to take their children side yet we watch this with our unimpaired vision and say “its fine”.


On the other hand, parents that are ought to show or be a good illustration to their children life but it is clearly the opposite. They drink with their kids on the same bottle and smoke the same ciggarate, all I can say is good parenting. In addition, your child devote a night wherever and when she/he emanate back, all you can say is “its fine”, your glad he/she came back home thus you don’t precaution about what happened. Nine months later something show up and you`re pleased to plea it a blunder. This is the similar juvenile who left to a bash and was asked if he/she have condoms or not. In fact, to cut things short, teenage pregnancy is caused by parents by being spectators instead of being a parent. Some parents have the guts to bail out their spoiled brat whom allegedly where found in position of stolen property. How are we going to fight crime in this country if it start in you own backyard? If your own child abuse drugs and he/she stay under your roof but you don`t know about it, what kind of a parent are you? Above all, the least we say is “Its fine” life goes on.


Some parents have failed us. We need real parents in this world not teenage parents. We need good parenting in this world or else we are heading for a disaster.

Stand up as a member of society and do something about it.

There errands confronting us as a society and that need us as a society to contest them.  We look throw our windows with our Unimpaired judgment and observe a man beating a woman like he is thrashing a drum yet we treat such incidents as if nothing has happened. Some elders will even act as spectators and applaud the fight on.  We pass by teenagers stoned walking in and out of taverns but we sack it as disobedience. Some adults will even smoke and drink with them.

We cheer old crooks and hoot while they spin their stolen cars yet we sham as if everything is alright. It is shockingly shocking that some of them are seen as role models likewise some even accumulate some of their deeds and money.

While your neighbors kids are anguish, goes to school bare footed on daily basis even in winter and your kids have more than enough pair but you won`t even purchase one pair for them. Teenage pregnancy increased exponentially and parents say nothing about it. Our lovely sisters have turned out to be baby manufacturing machines and the supreme we as society do is to make fun of them. We expound about social mandate on our cherished society yet we don`t do anything about small things that are captivating place underneath our muzzles.

                                                                                                      

This is the time; were society should take full responsibilities of things that took place on our eyes. We can`t stop crime if we entertained it by buying stolen goods. If something’s are wrong, then do something about it. These things distress us as society. Their not an individual problems but it is public glitches thus, let’s approach them as a society.

 Get Up And Do What Is Right...

We need to help the needy and start giving today

Recently, I heard a true story about an 8 year old girl who gave away all of her toys and some of her clothes after a sermon that was preached by a pastor in church about the importance of giving. This is not just important spiritually but it is also significant in real world we dwell in. I am not by any chance trying to question your religious belief but I am trying to highlight the fact that you could have been a starving child in Somalia but fortunately your not. I am trying to encourage people to give as much as they can. Some of us can afford to live our lives more decent perhaps the point to ponder remains. Do you even think about others? I mean, the idea of giving is imbedded with the fact that do you even think about other people or you are just a selfish looser who cares nothing about others but him/herself?

Give because you understand that those poor people did n't choose to be poor, they did n't choose to be born in dismal and degrading conditions. Those kids did n't choose their parents. Recently, I was watching a TV series known as America's Got Talent when this other three kids where asked that "what would they do if they win the competition because the price is 1 million $ dollars and they respond was "We would buy a big house and put lot of toys for all those kids who don't have parents". By the way these kids I am talking about, their 5, 6 and 7 years old. If kids who don't even have anything wants to give, what about us who have something? Do we even think about giving or not.

We have so much things going on in our lives, we buy and throw away everyday. Even if we have enough we are still afraid to give. If your own neighbor sleep without a proper meal and your not even willing do to something about it, who has to? If your neighbor kids goes to school bare footed even in winter season and you get to see it everyday even though your kids have more than one pair of shoes, and you don`t feel any sign of sympathy including a sense of assisting them. Instead we call them names, treat and dehumanize them through gossip. We call them names instead of sharing the little we have with them. You don't have to be Bill Gates to give to people. Let us stop this selfish and dehumanizing act and start to help each other. The only time you should be looking down to someone is when you are picking them up. Let us not judge them, calling them names, distancing ourselves from them and start to love them because at the end of day, their human beings and they don't choose what is happening in their life's. There is nothing much they could do if their own neighbor’s look down to them.

Lastly, I read a story about a journalist known as Kevin Carter who killed himself. It is along the lines of failing to assist people. The haunting photo of a vulture stalking an emaciated Sudanese girl who'd collapsed on her way to a feeding station won photographer Kevin Carter a Pulitzer Prize in 1994. Carter also become notorious for sticking to the journalistic principle of being an observer and not getting involved -- he left after taking his photo and neither he, nor the New York Times, which first published the photo on 26 March 1993, knew what happened to her. (Looking at the photo, it's hard to imagine a pleasant ending.) A few months later after collecting his Pulitzer, Carter committed suicide, the violence he'd encountered in his life as a journalist, especially in South Africa, becoming too much to live with. This story is demoralizing thus I would n`t like to discuss it feather and the picture is above to see.

It is really up to you…I can do so much.

We have lost our ways…where is the Spirit of Ubuntu?

I have seen a lot traumatizing events being entertained in the media, social network, newspapers etc. I always ask myself one thing: how long will it be until we return back to the spirit of Ubuntu? If you turn on the news or read newspapers; we hear and read about young girls who are missing and we all know that somehow their going to be used for generating profit through human trafficking. On the other hand people are regarded and treated as customers  sometimes products through out the world and nobody is saying anything.  If people are now treated as a commodity [products that could be sold or exchange for income] everyday, therefore one may ask; where is the spirit of Ubuntu?

It all could be traced back to what Karl Marx, a famous Theorist known as the father of sociology and the movement known as Marxism once contends. Marx came up with the concept of alienation [the experience of isolation resulting from powerlessness] in order to explain the causation of isolation in the world. He blamed the system of capitalism [the process of accumulation of capital or wealth] which has tends to focus on production and structure with paradigms which are profit oriented. In such system workers are being used as a tool for generating profit. Human beings are being replaced by machines. Machines are now regarded as way better than human beings. The question remains; where is the spirit of Ubuntu?

It is really shockingly shocking that when someone needs help people start by taking pictures, videos first for their Facebook, YouTube, news etc before they call an ambulance. Is this who we really are or what we have turned to be? Completely senseless!!! What happen to putting human beings first before things we created in this world? Where is the spirit of Ubuntu?

We elect people into government in order to represent our needs but this are the same people who use to stand with us on the queue to fetch water ironically are the one`s who misuse the public funds for their own benefits. They drive nice and comfortable German cars, sleeping on the five stars hotel while there people back on the rural areas who are still pushing the same wheelbarrow to fetch water couple of blocks away from their crib`s. The question still prevails; where is the spirit of Ubuntu?

When are we going to start putting people first? When are we going to start putting ourselves in other people`s shoes before we even judge them? When are we going to stop using people as tools for our own benefits? When are we going to stop comparing people to things? When are we going to start using money instead of using people? Where is the Spirit of Ubuntu?

SHOULD THE PUBLIC SECTOR WORKERS SPECIFICALLY DOCTORS & NURSES STRIKE?

Recently I came across a story of a doctor who was stabbed to death by a patient after some misunderstanding and argument which lasted for while. The witnesses confessed that the securities were no where to be found inside the hospital. Only two were at the gate and of course it is a public hospital. Such incidences take place more often in this country and we pretend that we never heard of them. I find it very hard to say doctors shouldn't strike because life of many could be lost if their loosing their own life's. This questions the effectiveness of security structures and paradigms in public hospitals and if the government is doing something about it. There is an everyday notion that circle around the emphasis that there is nothing important than keeping yourself alive in this world.

The frame work and the point of departure behind the right to strike is formulated nicely in The Republic of South Africa Constitution (1996). The Constitution Stipulates that...[] everyone has the right to strike... however this raises questions about the doctor’s rights to strike. If it is stipulated in the Constitution then why are they not allowed to strike? Aren`t they fall under “everyone” as the Constitution contends? If their denied the rights to strike then why do we even have the constitution if we somehow don`t follow it? This clause in the constitution is elucidated in simple terms hence; there is no trick involved.

We can all agree that most social movements and strikes evolve around the idea of poor service delivery and wage increase in the community and workplaces respectively. Likewise, doctors wages are high compared to most field of studies. Are we rather suggesting and arguing that their greedy if the protest for a wage increase?

This is a very subjective topic to look into and it is debatable hence; I would like to leave it for people to debate it because I am not sure which side am I in. However I still question the ethical and moral aspect of doctors and nurses when it comes to strikes. I think they shouldn`t be allowed to strike provided that the working conditions around them is safe and their needs are being heard. One has to note that strikes are the last resort after they debate it with their respective employers shall I say.

What I think doesn`t matter much because I also have to reflect on the reality that they also have rights to strike and they working conditions that they work under are not good at all. One doctor is sometimes faced with the challenge of 50 patient`s which is quite a lot. This is not caused by the shortage of doctors perhaps it is caused by medical doctors leaving the country to work overseas. I think we have to work on keeping them here hence we really have to find out what is pushing them away so that we can keep them. All of this being said, I think the government, doctors and nurses should all sign an oath or an agreement stating that they will not strike alternatively the government must provide them with basic needs such as security for safe working conditions and salaries.

They Question still remain. Do you think Doctors and Nurses should Strike? If yes/no? Why?

THE SOMALIAN GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO BE HOLD ACCOUNTABLE!!!

This is a sad Story I read this afternoon..Imagine if it was your family member...This bad.

Johannesburg - Somali pirates who kidnapped a South African couple last year have demanded a $4m (R33m) ransom from the family, according to a newspaper report on Monday.

Durban residents Bruno Pelizzari and Deborah Calitz were sailing off the coast of Tanzania when pirates boarded their yacht and captured them on October 26 last year.

Speaking to The Sowetan newspaper on Sunday, Pelizzari's sister Vera said Bruno had phoned her on September 5 appealing for the ransom to be paid.

"I know you are doing everything you can. If they do not get the ransom, they are going to kill us," Pelizzari reportedly told his sibling.

This was the first time Vera had been in contact with her brother and she said a pirate named Ali had been calling her weekly since then.

"I explained to him that we are not rich. I told him that it is going to take time to get the money. We have been forced to beg for donations," she said.

why the government not pay the ransom, it can pay for the weapon and still be afraid to start war,we are talking about people life ,they are giving money to king mswati to maitain his lifestyle instead of improving people`s life ,it sound little bit akward but is very real that we are still living more unfortunate than in the sixties if not apartheid era ,dog eat dog .if not so they must let people sign that who ever go out of S.A is on his/her own they don't care what happen and recall all embassy abroad and be one standing state which is highly impossible.every life is worth valued and only the state has the money to cover its own people.tax money been stolen ,road Occident fund money been stolen so much is happening and south african seem to care less because of been victimised.
we dont have the likes of biko,mahlangu, even the lawyers of today dont help the poor the go for tenders illeterate guys and the so called co-operate business and care less of the poor.

- SAPA

References

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Pirates-demand-R33m-for-SA-hostages-20110926

News 24. (2011). online. available.