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Those savage natives!

How dare they go destroy their admin building – throwing thrash all over, breaking windows, threatening other students with knives and so forth. Goddamn black people! Not that white people don’t thrash things too – just the other day I stood watching my neighbour’s daughter thrash her boyfriend’s car. So they too have potential – perhaps less collective than us black folks but nonetheless have it. So, what is wrong with black people? Are we just naturally inclined to destroy what helps or serves us? Maternally prone to being violent at any opportunity afforded?

Last week I watched in absolute horror as municipal workers took to the streets. My only thoughts as those mothers and fathers swam in filth and ululated whilst hovering bins in the air – was – some of these people have children, they probably go home, sit with their kids, eat and watch Generations and behave like any other parent or civil human. That’s a tad bit scarily schizophrenic if you ask me. Because the next day they literally become animals. Perhaps I’m mistaking “Genuine Passion For a Cause” with savagery. Perhaps their actions are justified.

Anyway, a week later – their supposed kids – go on a rampage at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. These kids tear the place apart, and guess what? Their natural sociological being pins them to the act of throwing bins around as they career into administrative departments both in the town and Belville campuses.

There is something scarily schizophrenic in this behaviour because I could swear the very same bin-tottering, threatening student was the very same humble kid who sat in that administrative block crossing fingers as administrators tried to arrange him, or her, a study loan and ensure that he/she was actually admitted. If only they’d known what destructiveness and ingratitude the litter monster harboured whilst they laboured away for him/her to get a place at CPUT.

Now their entire campuses are held hostage by a bunch of anger possessed savages – who came to these institutions under the guises of wanting an education. Some do eventually get the education - which explains some of the educated ungrateful louts who end up in jail.

Time and time again I use myself as a tireless example. I came into a university which cost quite a steep amount. I got myself that loan from NSFAS. Yes. I did. And you don't have to pay registration fees when you have a NSFAS loan - so no point complaining about reg fees jumping from R1800 to R3000 when it doesn't actually affect you - you merely have to pay your required family contribution (which is dependent on your parent's payslip) within that academic year. My single mother wanted me at Rhodes. I wanted UCT at all costs. I completed my degree/s. Yes, the fees did go up and up during the years of my study but so did the loan. Yes, I am now paying this damn loan and it seems like my contributions make no difference to it. Point of the matter is that you can’t afford to say you can’t afford to study in this country. That is sheer laziness. Worst off is the fact that most of the protestors are on bursaries or some study loan of sorts which begs the question as to why they are striking? Some of the kids denouncing these universities as being unaffordable live a stone throw away from them – yet we, or I, travelled from the Eastern Cape accompanied by that thing called hope and the knowledge that my high school marks would enable a loan. I knew full well that where I was going, it was going to cost money. Not once did I delude myself into thinking otherwise. Or thinking I’d ‘strike’ the price down once admitted. So pardon me when this riles me up the wrong way. Those idiots are not protesting against fee increments – they’re just looking for an excuse to hone their savagery skills and loot some campus stores whilst they’re at it.

Nothing eats me up more than such people. They are a disgrace to the black race. Mere ungrateful yahoos that deserve to be re-thrown into circumcision schools if they’re male or partake in intonjana if they’re female. We are a genuinely cursed race. I cannot speak for other races – I don’t know what their so-called devil gifted them with. All I know is that there is something wrong. There is something horribly wrong with people who live in shacks and demand electricity and running tap water. When said items are installed they go off and steel the electricity cables, poles, light bulbs and sell the newly installed taps at the nearest scrap yard. There is something genuinely wrong with people who protest for houses and once they get a house they go off and sell it and move back into their shack and then moan about it all over again. Something wrong there. The wrong thing might be termed poverty - not monetary - a poverty of minds - one which cannot even be alleviated by the provision of money or tertiary education (look what they're busy doing at their tertiary institutions).

For those who derive joy from analysing texts - the homemade critics and political sniffers - this is not political. This is not some emotive racist outburst. This is our reality even if it sounds left-ish or DA-aligned. To be quite frank I don’t give a fig about the DA and its racist leader. I do however give one, and show genuine concern, for the people I have reflected upon herein. Something is terribly, terribly wrong.