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Comment by doctor mabila on August 8, 2011 at 10:07am

It is very sad to hear about the attacks. It is very important to share in life rather than building big walls for security to block our neighbours and building higher and higher to be far from the grounded people and look down on people on our fancy balconies. Why don't we break those separating walls, come down from those skyscrapers or invite them in our houses and make friends with our neighbours and know each other and help if he is poor, is just common sense. That's the common sense. Schallie, greed and selfishness destroyed us human beings. We create our own crime by making others to feel worthless and hopeless and while we becoming more egocentric and rich. Obvious those who are in your surroundings and poor will do anything for survival. Rich people and the current government stand together and communicate to solve the problem. Most  public officials still blames apartheid and rich point fingers or blames or complain about the government. Bringing us to nowhere. And the victims are the poor like this youth who don't have choices to choose from and are hopeless. There are walls around them in their lives. It is also for the benefit of the citizens to see the reality of SA out there and where our country is heading on Carte Blanche. What is sad is that the same youth won't be able to see the same program on TV because they don't have the TV and they wont see how it affects the country. And the same it create the bigger gap and rivalry between the rich and the poor rather than focusing on the solutions. And what is sad it also creates generalization about us young black males by the rich individuals. Till we stand together and become friends and forgive each other, nothing will happen.

Comment by Schalk van Heerden on August 8, 2011 at 7:27am

I wrote this, like Steve Biko would advise, as a white, for my white brothers and sisters to think about...