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South Africans can bring peace to the world

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Most commentators on YouTube and here on Facebook are saying that there is no hope for South Africa. They are saying that the ANC represents everyone in South Africa. They are saying that South Africa's political landscape is changing to one where blacks vote for black parties, or various faiths vote for the own parties, or people from Natal vote for parties that represent them and people from the Cape vote for parties that represent them. This problem is short term!

I came back to South Africa in 1995 as I believe(d) in the new South Africa. I left the old South Africa in 1987 because I didn't want to fight my coloured and black friends from the townships where I had been teaching for years, whilst at University.

I live in South Africa as do so many people because we believe in the country and its people. We love its beauty. We love that Amazon invented AWS and the Amazon Cloud here in Cape Town, in South Africa. We love that Elon Musk was born in South Africa. We love that the two world's biggest beer companies merged, and one of them was SAB, South African Breweries. So many South Africans live abroad and contribute there. We want them to come back to our land of beauty and culture, and contribute to the 10% real growth (after inflation) we need here, and it is possible, for all sorts of reasons.

One of these immigrants was my ex-wife's grandparent's coloured domestic or maid. She immigrated to the UK in the 1980's and because she spoke Yiddish and because she could make all the "Jewish" foods, she was instantly in demand. By the time I met her in 1989, she was living in Belsize Park, an upmarket suburb of London, and she was in huge demand. This is the nature of South Africa and South Africans. We haven't only lost brilliant and incredible whites. So too with blacks, coloureds, and all types of people.

Our president says that we can show the world how to heal. I agree. But he does it with hate, and perhaps 10 million people agree with him, but the other 55 million people agree with me. We can show the world how to get together and the only way to do that is to get together with each other and to forgive each other for what our parents did to each other, and ensure that our children love and respect each other. Otherwise we are just perpetuating ancient rivalries, and sometimes ancient myths.

As we enter 2026, I pray for love and compassion and generosity and respect and trust to be top of mind for South Africans, and I pray that the world sees this and says "we want to be like them".

Happy new year.
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