Although South Africans celebrate Freedom Day, they are not truly free
26 April 2021
Although South Africans will once again celebrate Freedom Day, they are not truly free. People should not harbour the misconception that being able to vote means that you are free. South Africa is too entangled in corruption, crime, poverty and unemployment to be free.
True freedom is when you have a job, can make a good living, is safe from crime and when the government of the day is responsible and acts in the best interests of the people. In South Africa, however, quite the opposite is true.
When it comes to the Afrikaner, the government's actions can be construed as an attempt to further marginalise this minority group.
Affirmative Action (AA) and Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) are being implemented with increased vigour. Afrikaans is also increasingly being suppressed – the way that Afrikaans is targeted at the University of Stellenbosch, for instance, serves as an example.