Over the last few weeks I have seen some rather interesting content on social media with some black people seemingly wanting to make a change on their stance on black leadership. About a week or so ago, the Democratic Alliance had a conference to elect a new leader of the party and two notable candidates were in the running, Mpho Phalatse and John Steenhuisen.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen has been elected as the new leader. He defeated former Johannesburg mayor, Dr Mpho Phalatse. #DAcongress2023 #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/0V9hC0UOWx
— Tshepiso Moche (@tshepimoche) April 2, 2023
I followed this event somewhat while also looking to see what the average South African was thinking about the leadership race. Now, don’t get me wrong, many black people were still voicing out their dislike for black people who are part of the party and claiming that they don’t see the many pitfalls of supporting the DA given our history.
I was rather intrigued by this and I continued to survey social media to see if any other commentary came up. I was surprised when I saw some members of the black society mentioning that life under the apartheid government was oppressive but at least we didn’t have such a high unemployment rate, our health sector was functional and we had parastatals that were fully functional.
This led me to having a conversation with a lady who has lived in other African countries, one being the DRC and she would continue to elaborate just how bad the corruption is in that country. We would continue to speak about various other issues concerning leadership in other African countries and how South Africa is headed to being another failed African state. Another matter we had to bring to the forefront is that unlike other Africans who have found refuge in South Africa, we don’t have another option.
She would then continue to say that based on her observation it looks as though black people are lacking in leadership skills in a critical way. She would elaborate how the rule of law doesn’t exist and how most leaders in African countries are happy to come into power, loot the resources and make their way out of the continent to live comfortable lives elsewhere in the world without a care for the masses they leave behind.
Now I have never lived in another country outside of this one, but the story sounds more or less the same everywhere you go. So what does this mean? Are black people incapable of leading themselves and others? Are black leaders incapable of thinking further than caring for their own families to actually consider that they have a multitude of people who are directly affected by their decisions?
And seeing that South Africa has the largest
number of white people in Africa, does this mean that at some point black
people might become so frustrated that they decide to vote white people back
into power? And if that were to happen, what would that mean for us a country?
Will we slowly revert back to how things were pre 1994? And you reading this
article, if you could be honest with yourself, do you also believe that white
people were doing a better job running the country even with their
oppression?
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