What is the ability to stay strong when life throws obstacles in your way? When these obstacles are not in your power and you have no choice but to get through them? That is a quality, a quality only the most noble people posses. A quality that all the greatest , men who ever walked this earth, owe thanks to.
It’s called perseverance. It is to believe in yourself and to believe in the future, that things would get better. Whatever problem that you land in, it is to stay strong. It is not to ever give in. there will be no hoisting of the white flag.
If one looks at the Apartheid times, those who were classified as black, were obliged to carry a document, called the Dom Pass. These people were oppressed, discriminated and forced to produce the Dom Pass whenever a policeman required it. If they did not have their Dom Pass with them, then it was time to face the music. They were locked up for days, some were even tortured, all because of not having a piece of paper on you.
They took the discrimination, they took the oppression, they also took the violation of freedom. They persevered. They believed that some day, maybe not some day soon, never the less, some day they would get their chance to be seated on the bench that previously said “Whites Only”
If they had given up. If they had surrendered to the torture. If they had had enough, and couldn’t take no more, then where would you and I be? Would we have had the opportunities that we have today? If there had not been the perseverance embraced by the activists one and all, the South Africa we know would not have been.
Facing the crime, the Apartheid government and life itself, they stayed, they fought. Let’s look at Nelson Mandela. Did he during his twenty-seven years in jail cell 46664 ever for a split second throw in the towel? Did he stop believing in the future of this country? Did he give up?
My question is, then why should we? It goes without saying that our crime, poverty and unemployment is high; but if we look at the examples of Madiba, Steve Biko and all the other activists who held on and persevered . They overcame Apartheid . Then why can’t we persevere too? Do we have to be coward and chicken out of the problems we face? Or will we stand straight and say “Nkosi Sikelel iAfrica” and believe and hope and overcome all that which is in our way. Should we not posses that noblest quality known to the greatest of man?
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