While the American's Voted

All across the United States, the people of the most powerful country in the Western World, are streaming to the election polls to go and choose their next President. They are in a bit of a sticky situation as neither of their main candidates are particularly appealing. However, they still get to go and vote. Obama's term is over - eight years completed and that's it, time to move on to the next President. Democracy in action as it should be The right to choose who governs your country and, should that person not do the job properly, the right to vote them out of power after 4 years. While the circus of the run-up to the elections has been headline news all over the world, and consumed facebook pages and twitter, we, in our little corner of the globe, have been dealing with a man who makes Clinton and Trump combined look like squeaky clean angels. Our own Jacob Zuma who has seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges outstanding against him,who raped his own daughter's best friend, has more wives than he has brain cells, who has been found guilty of using tax payers money to build his own estate, and the list goes on and on. If Jacob Zuma's lips are moving, then you know that he is lying. He has practically sold our country to the Gupta family in order to increase his own wealth, and we are probably going to take at least a decade to recover from all the misuse of state funds and other illegal transactions. People are getting poorer, unemployment is sitting at over 40% and due to the drought, the cost of food is astronomical. Crime is getting more and more violent and a simple hijacking is now often followed by a senseless shooting of the victim. Drug taking is spiralling amongst the unemployed youth and the future for the teenagers is not looking very positive. Students are currently destroying the universities because they want to attend them for free. By the time they have finished destroying everything they will be able to sit and study for free - under the nearest tree! Julius Malema is screaming out to "Kill the Whites" even though there are not very many of us left, and take away any land that we own and our right to own any land. So what do we, the average citizen, have to say about all of this chaos in our beloved country as it not only cries but screams in agony? Well, for the most part, we seem to have become kinder to each other. People of all races are doing little acts of kindness to help another person, irrespective of their race or age or even religion. I, for example, was helped out by a lovely young black lady the other day when I was at the supermarket. All she did was pass me some of the items in my trolley that I was battling to reach (I am of rather limited height) and chatted to me as she did so. It was nothing extreme, just a simple act of kindness. Every day I read of other small acts of generosity and kindness, for example the black gentleman who stopped when he saw that a young white woman was broken down on the side of the road. Understanding that she was afraid when he approached her, he spoke to her kindly and told her that he would just wait until her help arrived because it was not safe for her to be sitting alone where she was an easy target for criminals. Once her help arrived and she realised that she was safe and that he had no intentions of hurting her, she thanked him with tears in her eyes and yet another brick in the wall of apartheid was torn down. You see, the laws of the country may have changed in 1994 and a new government put in power to bring about the necessary changes, but, as beloved as Nelson "Madiba" Mandela was by all the people of South Africa, and as much as he united us, and our sportsmen and women united us, it is only really now, as we truly struggle, as we deal with a man who has lied and cheated and laughed in the face of the very people who trusted him, that we are slowly coming together. We can joke about this abominable man and his minions in the government as their gravy train is about to be derailed, we smile at each other and shake our mutual heads at the latest scandal to rock the nation and we finally realise that we are all in this together and that we can only rely on each other. For many of us, who have full trust in God, we know that He is at work and that His hand is moving through our land and drawing lost people to Himself.'