Rich and poor in Grahamstown

I have never seen poverty so close to wealth than in Grahamstown. You just have to cross the road to live both worlds, well not really live but experience it. Just taking a walk to town, you find so many street children that it comes and goes out of fashion. You start to think how this can happen when some of the richest people in the country live here. I read the Groccots Mail and I see the blame given to the Municipality. We find that it is corruption or some other new fraud that the Municipality has cooked up that the town is such in a state. I think the paper just wants to point fingers at our local government but they (and us) cannot ignore the rich fat people basking in wealth and turning a blind eye to poverty. Yes there are NGOs that people talk about and some donation there and there but how can there be so much poverty still. We cannot neglect the poor and think that if anything wrong is happening we should blame the government. We as citizens should be oblige to help one another. We give monopoly of violence to the state not monopoly of morality and humanity. Furthermore, we as the youth should look at streets and see how we can change what we see as wrong. Let us not blame and point fingers but rather take action as people and give our wealth to those who struggle to obtain it.


Pumelela 'Push' Nqelenga