Not in Nelson Mandela's name

You cannot claim to deliver a speech to honour Nelson Mandela, when you have have African National Congress member literally at each other's throats at the venue you are delivering this "honourary" speech. It cannot be in Mandela's name, the man who always told South Africa's youth to take advantage of education, that you gave a speech and not mention the rot in the education department. You could have not been honouring a man who spoke out against a divided country and inequality.  

It is blasphemous for anyone who claims to be walking in the footsteps of Rolihlahla Mandela to be ignorant to the education crisis in South Africa. The education department is breeding a new generation of rapists, bad mothers and criminals. It is exactly what you get if you do not educate a nation. We will have more and more people dependent on social grants. That is not the kind of legacy Mandela left. We have greedy politicians. The fish really rots from the head down. 

We cannot have responsible young people if we do not have older and matured people to look up to. We lack role models. The people who are really trying to make a difference in our communities are overshadowed by brutality and greed of people in high office. They have planted a seed of doubt in our minds. We do not trust anyone because we have been let down for so long. How can we empower ourselves when the government that has inherited the backlog of apartheid further deepens itself  in corruption, maladministration. It is so bad we forget to mention the good that people like Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma did for our country. It stops us from appreciating the good attempts by Aaron Motsoaledi's department of health. It blinds us so much we do not see a glimmer of hope. It just makes us want to turn on each other, kill each other, oppress one another and belittle each other. All because we are not heard. The great start of our democracy is in tatters. The legacy of Nelson Mandela is in jeopardy. Wherever you are Madiba, I wish a happy birthday. You are blessed with long life and people of South Africa who love you, who miss you and long for the unity you once gave us a taste of.