We need to help the helpless, we need to create a united online front for change. More importantly, we need to understand!
Possibly without even knowing it, Paul Weinberg may have captured a more iconic image than originally perceived – If you take a closer look, you may see what I’m talking about….
Before I explain my interpretation of the photo, this week South Africans celebrated their freedom and commemorated the first post-apartheid elections.
No day of celebration representing equality, peace and freedom should ever be overshadowed by controversy and anger, but most South Africans found it difficult this year.
Over the past two decades we have seen a tremendous amount of economic growth, social upliftment and opportunity creation, but we have also seen a government and its public cripple the very prosperities Nelson Mandela fought for.
As the president of South Africa continues to completely disregard the constitution and the people of his country, accompanied by the publics projection of their anger unto one another – Freedom Day should be a day in which we celebrate our achievements, be grateful for our freedom and strive forward with integrity to build our nation stronger than ever.
It is not only the president that has a role to play, it is all of us…
In the photo: As Nelson Mandela reaches out to cast his ballot for a better future, the projected shadow on his body resembles a gun (a phenomenon called Pareidolia).
Violence and all that accompanied it played a detrimental role in South Africas past. The election on April 27 1994 was supposed to rid of us violence, inequality, oppression and hatred. This shadow still lives on in South Africa and we are the only ones that can shine light on it.
It takes every single South African to make that extra effort to understand one another, talk to one another and support one another. Once we can all work together, anything is possible.
Violence is not the answer… violence is not the answer.
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