Child soldiers | Carte Blanche | M-Net
Child soldiers | Carte Blanche | M-Net
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝟮 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰.
In March this year, a 14-year-old boy from the Cape Flats was shot and wounded by a rival gang. But in the months since the shooting, he’s been less concerned about ensuring his safety by staying…
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Poverty makes us an unrecognisable demon 👹
Should i go to cape flats?
No one should have to choose to be a kid or something else, it should always be, by default, a kid. Always 😢
These people can't even hold a gun properly
Problem starts with the older man who prey on kids, and those kids later become the adults who do the same thing that was done to them. These guys glamourise gangster life and because most of this kids come from broken families, no role models at homes, poverty at home. They get drawn in and some are forced in because they fear for their lives. It’s a sad vicious cycle.
*This is a raw comment written from a non-South African. The video grieved me, deeply. Please understand my intentions: they are raw expressions of my honest thoughts and feelings written as I paused this episode’s tragic storyline I witnessed while watching a portion of this video*
Craziness.😢😢😢
This reminds me of the Soweto Uprisings we as foreigners witnessed, cried about, and made efforts to boycott South Africa for, years ago, to end such a destructive force.
But now, look at this. Absolutely embarrassing.
Who’s waging the destructive uprising against Black South Africans? Oh, the Black South Africans.
So what regime do we protest against and boycott and strive to outlaw now, in that country? Tell me. Please.
This foreigner just keeps thinking of ALL THE BLACK AFRICAN FOREFATHERS I, as a non-South African, had become aware of. All those who shed THEIR BLOOD to end the suffering of apartheid. Now I ask, they died FOR WHAT???
The images I am witnessing today, in this video, look exactly the same as the images I saw, read about, cried over, and listened to the testimonies of, back in the 1970s and 1980s as we—the world—banded together to help resolve the conflict.
Now. Black South Africans do the job as f oppression themselves. THEY are the perpetrators of racism. But their destructive force is waged against their own, and this happens in so so so many ways.
Honestly, I think Black African-driven apartheid is worse than the apartheid regime of the past.
Why?
Because some of us thought Black South Africans released from so much oppression would EVER think of destroying their fellow countrymen.
I was wrong.
As I ponder what I am seeing now, in this video, I question how to absorb this reality. What do I do? What do we, as fellow People of Color, do as destruction burns as a wild fire from the hands of these People of Color? They are killing their future, literally. But there aren’t global outrage now. Should I ask what I am thinking?
Who cares?
Should all of us who once mourned over South Africa’s oppression now apologize to those we once boycotted. Would that help? Why do I ask this? It is because, at that time, I witnessed Black Africans honoring each other and standing together as only a few sided with their oppressors.
Look at this situation now.
I am now speechless. The video ends. South Africa is dismissed as a commercial for dog food appears. No weeping now. No weeping later. The boycotts are over. No global rage anymore.
We ARE witnessing Black South Africans exercising their freedom.
This happens because Coloured people are refused Access to justice, and yes, I have proof.
One need to apply sociological imagination in order to understand this story.
Could've asked them better questions man
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So heartbreaking 😢
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There are very few moments that Journalists allow you to see the impact of the story that are running with. This one seemed to touch you very deeply Govan! Keep on doing the great work that you are doing. I always say that you have a lot of Derick in you!
Stabbed 52 times,,,,, thats being carnivorous not human
Chemical drugs like mandrax and Tik and police issued guns being SOLD to gang leaders putting this evil into the coloured areas for a very long time… 2 way street
The problem starts with parents who never wanted to be parents
heart breaking for real, i would like to know from the people who were able to escape this reality is what would be the solution to this?
This is so sad that gangsters can rule towns like this and nobody can stop them
Ntho tse etsahalang lefatsheng,,ekae DA,,look DA doesn't care about black people, why they don't stop this,,including useless ANC
#wideawakepodcast @wideawakepodcast
Great
That poor young lad Deurico and his Mum. Heartbreaking
It always the best run province what a joke
give our laaities more options and opportunities to heal all this .
I'm born and raised on the flats. As a 40 year old man. I still cry every time I see the kids and mom, grandmas in these documentaries. It's like I see my own family. Soul wrenching stuff.
Young women are pregnant, living off social grant , no ambition to complete high school and better their circumstance, community and parents are to blamed what happening there
They are, too a large extent, severely neglected children.
Frightening and shocking I would never visit there that's for sure 😮
I work in these places, but itsnt bad like the media tells us.
How come it's always previously disadvantaged people….
Child soldiers???!!! No!!! Criminals!!!!
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This is because of so much youth unemployment. Sort out jobs for the youth and this won't happen.
they will have cape town at a stand still to protest against the gaza war but not give a fk or take responsibility of the wars that are happing on their streets
How can we help these kids? How can we help these families? For starters, these gangs need to be removed from these communities
thanks for doing this story with compassion. Its sad that our Government has nothing in place to break this cycle of abuse and violence in the Cape Flats.