Thursday, June 01, 2006

What is happening?

These are some of the news articles over the last few weeks…

Matie's suicide devastates family
Hanged girl found under tree
Man hangs his three children
Teenage girl films her suicide
Mom, sons found hanged
Boy hangs himself in toilet
Man hangs kids, himself
Dad throws kids off bridge

Raped child fighting for her life
Man held for raping six-year-olds
4 arrested for gang-rape of girl, 11
Shocking SA child death stats
More than 25% of Cape schools 'at high risk'
Belgian student tells of gang-rape ordeal

And there there is the whole baby Jordan murder

WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR SOCIETY? And these are only the ones that made it into the news. I could only find ONE article reporting on someone actually asking questions of the government (DA slams govt over child abuse crisis)

Why is no one making more noise about this?
Why does everyone just get on with their lives as if this doesn’t affect them?

The news will run special report's on the f#@$ing ZUMA trial and BIRD FLU but are completely missing the plot when it comes to issues that REALLY MATTER in our society. Instead of arguing and second-guessing each other over who is going to succeed President Mbeki why not focus on the real future of the country. It doesn’t make a bloody difference who is in charge of the country if there is no one left in it.

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