There is a call for South Africans to show a willingness to change the lives of the less privileged more often than only on 18 July, the single day annually reserved for honouring former statesman Nelson Mandela.
Mandela Mondays is seemingly a new way to create an opportunity to encourage social responsibility and move community members to take care of one another. This is most welcome in the South African context as it would promote goodwill and the extending of a hand to someone in need. The younger generation will hopefully contribute to this drive to craft a more promising future for their country. With any luck they would learn from their parents that it is cool to participate a greater set-up.
More often than not it is found the community displays apathy while it fails to lend a hand to fellow-citizens. Individuals who are involved in humanitarian actions in the true sense of the word are few and far between. They are time and again left out in the cold without help or resources from available structures. It would therefore take a special, unselfish person who would live by the undertaking to make Mandela Mondays a success.
While society is fraught with persons who are more hell-bent on accumulating wealth through selfish and improper means than letting go of easy money supposed to find its way to the right channels, it can only take a miracle to make right what is wrong. Many instances exist where money is needed. Child-headed families are among examples of the target areas that scream for attention. If this government justifies its inability to act by saying that it is indeed doing enough to assist, it is lying to itself. In the first place a government operating under this democracy should never have allowed the trend to come about, for minor children cannot take that burden upon themselves to care for siblings while still having to occupy a school desk on an empty stomach every morning.
Some criminals are not behind bars simply because they have not been caught yet or have what it takes to earn an honest income. Only conscious minds can bring about the necessary self-imposed change.