This is not going to be a long post – but it is an important one to me and most other South Africans. Aside from sharing my passions like cooking… I write mostly about what I “feel” – and this is no exception. I am from Cape Town, South Africa - one of the most BEAUTIFUL TOURIST DESTINATIONS IN THE WORLD... but more importantly, I am SOUTH AFRICAN!!! and I live in one of the most magnificent countries in the world. I do not WANT to leave this place, but I now fear, we honestly will be left with no choice. The race card has been played to the point of a split and yes that would be one of the reasons we leave... but even more so than that... we are living under complete TYRANNY!!!!! One of the things I have ALWAYS loved about this community is it’s ability to “voice”. Successful or not in result, the voice, action and intention is always there! More often than not… that is 50% of the job done.

Something I also don’t do much of (never actually)… is publish politically related posts – but tonight I am doing it because the people of our country need an international voice and I am hoping that all of YOU can help with that!

South Africans have exercised a lot more than patience. We have sacrificed and abided – but things are getting out of hand now. If there was EVER a question about the resilience of the people in our nation… that has been evaporated. Having endured the LONGEST hard lockdown in the world – 120 days in! Our economy is not crashing… it has crashed! People are starving and emotions are running thin – VERY THIN!

To compound the already ridiculously harsh levels of our lockdown like curfew, the ban on tobacco and alcohol sales etc. the entire tourism, hospitality, entertainment and travel industries are busy folding as we speak because they are not permitted to work. The last four mentioned are probably this country’s BIGGEST money spinners… second to the sin tax contributors.

I am not even going to ATTEMPT to get into the government corruption aspects, because that would a require a 15 “episode” , 12 season series of posts – NOT KIDDING!

The reason am sitting writing this now is because today… there was a legal protest held here in Cape Town. They had the rights to be there, they did absolutely NOTHING other than hold their placards on the side of the road… WITH social distancing… appealing to government to save the above mentioned crumbling industries.

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They were met with such UNLAWFUL brutality… our police force exercising complete tyranny with the likes of water cannons, stun grenades and smoke bombs… If this is not dictatorship, then I do not know what is?!!! And I for one, would like to do “my part” at showing this to as MANY OF YOU from ALL AROUND the world… so that you TOO can share it…. PLEASE!!!! For some reason, we always get overlooked here in the “deep South of Africa”… and yet we contribute to so much of the world’s success in countless ways!