The honeymoon phase of our rainbow dream has come to an end. How fitting that it has happened in 2010 when the world will be looking at South Africa for something to learn. In the few days and weeks to come, the media will popularise issues around identity because that's what everyone will be asking. Who are these south africans and what do they have to offer the world? Finding the answer will be interesting.
It seems to me that to know your national identity is only good if the future is truly yours to decide. Unfortunately it is not, because there is always someone else in charge...the government, and who knows what direction they might decide to take next. Those who will bother to look at South Africa may find a very confusing definition of identity.
And here it is: a country with first world expectations engaged in an exciting process of self-discovery but also one of frustration because it finds itself in a third world reality.
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