Mpumalanga MEC for Health Sasekani Manzini welcomed New Year babies at Shongwe Hospital. Picture: Facebook/Mpumalanga Department of Health Nothing is sacred in South Africa. It is a place and time where our morals are negotiable and there is no necessity for them to be upheld.
What is set as a standard and norm of public decency in our age and time seems to have its lines blurred and not set in stone. We are now in a space where corruption does not move us and sex scandals where ministers share girlfriends and their bedroom secrets are Sunday tabloid fodder. Schools are now labour wards as teenage pregnancy rises and continues to rise.
We are in an age where presidents and their families are sold to the highest bidder, femicide and pedicide are at soaring rates and child rapists confess to using drugs with their mothers – imagine: a mother introducing her child to drugs and not warning him or her of the dangers of drug abuse. Where is our moral compass as a nation? If this is where we are, where are we headed?
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We cannot as a nation continue this way. We must rein ourselves in as a country – but before we start with the country, we must start with our families: the men and women in the mirror. As the home rots, the rot escapes the house and seeps into the community and other people and families must survive this.
Our moral compass is off; this is something we must remedy. Every year, like clockwork, the country pauses to count the number of teenage births recorded on Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, folding these figures neatly into our annual statistics. The numbers trend, headlines are written and for a brief moment concern is expressed. Yet, soon after, the conversation is quietly shelved.
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