Voters Role

South Africa wake up this weekend to a new president. Though the odds were greatly stacked against him, his hard work and perseverance brought him into power as the head of the country's leadership. It will be interesting to see the direction the country takes under the new leadership. Changes will be made as to who will be running certain departments and running development. The new president has already started restructuring hierarchy. He named his new cabinet with new ministers, which means that old ones have to leave. With this in mind, there real concern that will affect all of use is service delivery. I mean that why we stood in lines for hours waiting to flex our constitutional muscle. Something needs to change.


This once again draws me toward the sentiments that we the people abandon our duties to make a difference through our votes. We are crippled by our votes which lead us on a road of that's full of 'compassion' for the poor but is characterised by an overwhelming ebb of apathy. The political jargon that we constantly use should be redirected to our own lives and what it really means to be a follower of Christ. Service deliver has become a constitutional right which we all have a claim to. But on this revolutionary path we say we walking, service delivery is an honourable act towards others but more specifically those how need it. The parallel between the duties of the government and Christians is once again clearly evident.

I read an article in the Sowetan yesterday about how people are concerned with the increasing amount of beggars on the side of the road. The main issue that was mentioned was that women are using their babies as a weapon to get money out of the people who drive past. I personally think that exploiting children to manipulate rich people into giving money is not good. But I also feel that the situation is so serious that without the use of such drastic measures people, including those children that we so concerned about will not have food to eat. Out of desperation the mothers act. I am not in the same position that they are in so I can not say whats wrong and right. What feel is that saying that this is failure of the municipality in service delivery and that the responsibility lies entirely on the government is rubbish. We as the followers of Christ have a shared responsibility with the government to make a difference.

To be moved with compassion is not merely a thing of emotions. It is emotions lived out, being moved by those seeds planted in you heart and sharing in the pain of others as if it were my own discomfort. This way, this path that we so passionately talk about day in day out, let us be equally passionate about living it. Its not a road walk by you alone but it is there for you to walk with other people for other people. Christianity can not exist in vacuum but it finds life through needy people.