Imagine if South Africa was like this ...
Imagine if this governing party was fully behind its president and leadership as they tried to attract investment and create jobs for all in an effort to end poverty.Imagine if South Africa had a governing party that was united. This governing party had cadres who woke up every day more determined to serve the people of the country, be it in their communities, in the three spheres of government and in every other sector.
Imagine if South Africans woke up every day to the news of another corruption-free delivered government project to create jobs and improve the living conditions of the people.
Imagine if all South Africans woke up every day, knowing that by the end of business and by the end of the day, they would celebrate in the knowledge that they’d had another productive day. And that the results meant that fellow South Africans had a better life than yesterday.
For now, at least, President Cyril Ramaphosa is mostly dreaming, it seems. And, perhaps, the time for all South Africans to dream has come.
Polarising politics is the reality in the republic, be it the Public Protector going against the president or against the SA Revenue Service, the DA against Ramaphosa, or the EFF against Pravin Gordhan.
Imagine, instead, leaders, parties and people who trusted and respected the decisions of the country’s democratic institutions, even if they went against them.
Imagine if our politics were not about going against those with whom we differed, but rather about finding a half-way point at which we trusted one another and worked together to find solutions to the challenges confronting us as a country. It would make a great change from searching for loopholes to destroy others.
Imagine if our leaders, irrespective of party affiliation or ideological differences, worked every day to unite and build South Africa to be the safest, most powerful and prosperous nation on Earth, far surpassing what all the “superpowers” have achieved.
Imagine if all South Africans, every day, were united in dreaming, imagining and building a democratic and nondiscriminating country and the best nationon the planet.
Imagine a country where all its people had enough to eat and drink and acceptable living conditions.
And imagine a country that strived every day to create equal opportunities for all its citizens without regard for race, gender, culture, community and belief.
It could be that for the past 25 years of our constitutional democracy we have been overtrying to do rather than imagining and dreaming of the country in which we want to live.
And, as a way forward, we could join our president in dreaming of the most prosperous nation in the world and eventually achieve it through informed and positive action.
Let’s start dreaming and share our dreams of being a “superpower”, the best the world has seen, and then act on the dreams.
Dream, South Africa, Dream.
Mgudlwa is a journalist and writer of the bestselling children’s book Kiddies World
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