HARDSHIP!!!

I don’t want to go back to the apartheid times but sometimes we remise about how much hardship our families endured during apartheid. You know that it was bad when the topic rises and your parents or grandparents start to tear. Yesterday I started reading Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu;s biographt and it really brought tears in my eyes. This was what John Allen wrote as the prologue in page 4 “Tutu and his personal assistant, Matt Esau, went into Botha’s office. It was the first time Esau had met Botha, and he was struck by his president’s size; alongside Tutu, who stood only about 1,6 meter tall, Botha was, in Esau’s words, a groot , fris boer (a big, beefy Afrikaner). Esau was also struck by the lighting- and Robin Renwick wrote later that being received in Botha’s dimly lit study conjured up images of what it must have been like to call on Hitler in his bunker.” If people would compare Botha to the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler than doesn’t that show how much our families faced for years. After all this it makes me proud to be guided by our constitution.