The trauma of the boy child and the girl child of the northern areas is unexplored territory. The psychosis of the drug addict is unexplored territory. Think of how the addict, the gangster, the vulnerable, the infirm, the elderly, the sick, the single parent in the northern areas navigates their way through extreme difficulties and challenges, hardship and despair in today’s world.
The rich in SA are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. The rich send their children to the best universities in the country and the world. How do the poor regain their competency and balance in contemporary society?
Through education, and if the poor don’t rise out of the circumstances they find themselves in, they only face hardship and poverty. Sons become unemployed, unable to provide for their families they turn to life on the streets, or to drugs, to alcohol, to gang life, to being accepted by the brotherhood and friendship in the gang.
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