Let's hold hands

BRUCE SAM SKRYF: 

To the white South Africans and Namibians who built the roads, hospitals, schools, houses and power grids we use today: Thank you.

We won’t pretend. The Apartheid era was evil. The laws were cruel. Families were broken. Dignity was denied. That part cannot be erased or excused. But the truth has more than one line. While that system existed, real work was done. The infrastructure stands. The hospitals still treat patients. The schools still teach kids. The houses still give shelter. The rail, the water, the electricity – much of it is the backbone of Namibia and South Africa today. Because of that investment, we are recognised as powerhouses in Africa.

For that part, we are grateful. We see it. We use it. We benefit from it.

The saddest part is this: Our current black government often acts like you were never contributors. You’re left out of conversations, out of municipal roles, out of recognition. That hate and exclusion keeps us all stuck.

It doesn’t have to stay this way.

The only way forward is together. Black and white, coloured and Khoisan, Baster and Bantu. We maintain what you built. We improve it. We build new on top of it. No one group can carry a country alone.

Let’s hold hands. Learn from the past, but stop living in it. Teach our kids that a better future isn’t about whose colour is “good” – it’s about who shows up to fix the pothole, who keeps the hospital running, who teaches the next class.

Thank you for the foundation. Now let’s build the rest of the house – together.

Stop tribalism. Stop BEE. Stop corruption. . .

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