I pray for a better world

Does freedom mean anti-crime South Africa?

After 1994 where our country was promised peace and tranquility for all. I thought that we escaped the struggle that our parents went through, and that we were going to live peacefully without any fear of being rejected, abused or denied opportunities because of the color of our skin, gender and even age. 

At the new supposedly free South Africa one thing that still bothers me and that I fear every day regardless of where I am is that there might be humans out there who are more powerful than me, who might hurt and even kill me because is m a women and powerless. I fear walking at the streets alone, I fear being at home alone and I still fear staying in campus till late because I don't know what those cruel men out there might do to me, as the world has turn a jungle where only the fittest will survive.

              

I dreamt of a place where one lived to their full expectations, where one did not have to fear making a life worth living and better as that means you will be a target of criminals after all the sweat and sleepless nights working to do good for yourself. I woke up in that dream, woken by a sound of more than three gun shots and after a while had sirens of an ambulance and later had from the police. The perpetrators are long gone, some of the victims died few minutes before the ambulance made it to the incident zone while the other victims couldn't even make it to the hospital alive. Then someone please tell me what makes me special, to think that I will not be a victim one of the days? I guess it's normal in our country but still shocks me.


          'We can't afford to be killing each other'   Nelson Mandela

I pray for a world with human beings that have conscious that will always remind them of the term Ubuntu where it assures that I am because you are, where there will be no human being who will be willing to kill for appraisal, where there will be no one who is willing to forcefully to take what does not belong to them without permission. I pray for a world where a person's live can be valued and not be taken away and do nothing about it. A world where my parents will be your parents, where an elder must not die because they no longer have the power to fight back, where a women must not be treated as a slavery because of what she doesn't have, be abused in all kinds because of being not masculine and even be killed for saying no to what they believe in.

I pray for a world where our brothers and sisters can live freely without being criticized and questioned because of their choices of lifestyle. A world that is free of any crime where one can live knowing that who I am will not get me killed and even my choices will not be questioned and criticized because other people do not believe in them and even what I have will be a key to criminals forcefully and intimidating me to feel that I don't deserve to have those things.

The rates of unemployment might be high even exceeding the rates of employment there are still those talents that we have that most industries in our country are lacking and in need for that God gave us. In rural areas we were blessed with more than enough land to make a living for ourselves.

All I am praying for is a peaceful world with all Individuals being given equal opportunities and treated as human beings despite our gender, color, religion and even age to be able to better our lives.