Desperate Calls for Righteous Leadership and Unity in South Africa

There is a calling in the wilderness, a calling for unity, a calling for righteous leadership. How long must South Africa still be trapped in this oppressive situation? How long must human citizens in South Africa be mistreated and ill-represented on the highest level?

370 years along and the country on the southern tip of Africa is more divided than it was before 1652. When we investigate the current situation and inspect what has led us to our present conditions we can not overlook the devastating history that the country had to endure. For the most part, South Africa has overcome Colonialism and Apartheid, policy and legislation are proof of the progress that the most diverse nation on earth have made however, today the citizens that make up this beautiful nation of South Africa are still enduring disastrous hardship and suffering.

In recent years many community groups, organisations, and political parties have come into existence all driven by a sense of purpose and belief that they are capable of creating the needed change that South Africa so desperately seeks.

The question automatically pops up…do these newly formed institutions or entities understand the ideological capacity needed to ultimately achieve the overall transformation that South Africa desires?

South Africa is made up of a compilation of diverse ideological elements such as identity, ethnicity, religion, and much more. Thus the understanding of the diversification of the nation is great. Leaders who can grasp the wide range of differences among the peoples that make up the population of South Africa must be given a chance to add to the prosperity of the nation in whichever capacity such a leader is willing to be involved. Such leaders must be embraced positively and respected for their work.

South Africa is desperately in need of leaders who are equipped to take the country forward. In the past, the right leaders have always stepped up at the right times. These are opportunistic times for the country just like it was at peak of the fall of the Apartheid empire. The difference however is that those who deem themselves as qualified leaders want to establish their own platforms. Self-established leaders with separate platforms bring a whole new form of division into sects, unlike the holistic unified effort that South Africa saw during the Apartheid era. 

The reality remains that as long as South Africa has various leaders across the demographic landscape of the country there will always be division and inequality. As long as self-proclaimed leaders build their own thrones South Africa will be in poverty. For it is the unification in leadership that will bring back the true meaning and purpose of our identity and for this reason, there is a call in the wilderness.