> There is no culture with out a spirit , there is no spirit without a culture. It is Forty years since the youth of 1976 embarked on a struggle for freedom and, many people lost their lives for the freedom we enjoy today.
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> Now more than two decades since freedom was birthed in South Africa.
> There is a culture of protesting in South Africa, this culture has a foundation which achieved productive results in 1976, results of which we are all witnessing and enjoying, if not fully enjoying the freedom, at least we all still commemorate their struggle.
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> We must be missing the spirit behind the productive strategy to protest, which differentiate today's protest from that of 1976 youth uprising.
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> our culture of protest to demand better services from the government is robbing us of services that we could be benefiting from, it looks like we need a productive strategy to embark on productive protest.
> It also shouldn't be a burden to the public to try receive services from the government. The president, minister of communications, mayors, the public and all affected stakeholders, need to come up with a productive strategy to allow the public to receive needed services when they need them with out violence. We should be operating within a freedom driven environment,l believe. A spirit of freedom should be guiding us. This was a a challenge met by the 1976 youth on a struggle for freedom it was different with them, they had to push boundaries of oppression in order to operate in freedom.
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> There is a great need to understand the spirit behind the culture that we choose to follow. We are raised within different cultures, some cultures that we become part of, we adopt as part of social influence,driven by the environments or communities within our surroundings.
> Celebrating cultural influences has become a norm, especially if we relate and share the benefits of that culture.
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> We need to understand and learn what produces successful people and productive situations. spirituality needs to be natured everyday, cultures that focus and put effort on their spiritual growth, they achieve better results of what they want to achieve.
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> > Following a culture , we need to understand the spirit behind the culture that we follow, in order to be able to achieve our expected results.
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> > I always wonder what always takes place before the protests that take place all around SA, most of them end up on headlines for wrong reasons, we hardly hear about how they have achieved their mandate of embarking on a protest, instead we hear of how much damage and violence they have caused, instead of the expected outcomes. The fees must fall protest, at least archived some positive outcomes, how ever some instances of torching emerged. We must be missing the spirit behind the protest in 1976.
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> What is it that goes on to motivate violence. One thing that is clear about it is that people are not driven by one spirit of archiving a productive outcome.
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> > most protests demand services, but always end up infamous for destroying government property, perhaps the spirit of demanding should be blamed for destroying and violence.
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> Our education system should revolve around spirituality. Bible should be taught at an early age at schools. Other communities do this well, teaching children their spirituality at an early age.
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> The Bible studies would motivate our communities spirituality and
> motivate a common mandate that would bring peace and produce productive outcomes.
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> The moment you demand something, you simple want it by force, that leads to violence, way before you even start demanding.
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> What about seeking a service or coming up with a different word than to 'demand'.
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> > I keep Wondering Is there common strategy agreed upon before embarking on a protest, how do youth plan or strategize to reach their goals and objectives of a protest, this should be monitored well, by leaders; I believe many would agree with me, that strategy is not just random ideas from certain people's minds who call them selves leaders.
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> > It is written the kingdom of god sufferers violence and the violent takes it by force, but I believe the spirit behind the kingdom of god brings results of peace, I believe more than anything else the spirit of god is love, it sets free, from bondage, it is justice, it liberates the captive, one needs to understand the benefits of the spirit before following it's culture. Which is why our education system should involve spirituality.
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> > Before showing off, your culture you should be proud of the spirit that drives that culture, the spirit should have benefits which will make your joy full.
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> >In 1976 The intention was to protest, the spirit behind it was freedom, how ever that freedom did not come cheap, people lost their lives for freedom.
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> > Today we loose properties that are suppose to be of service and better our lives, when today's youth protest, the intention I believe is to demand better services, but what is the spirit behind the protest?.
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> > the spirit behind the protest in 1976 was freedom, hence we have freedom now, protest seems to be the only way trusted to move the government to respond to the publics needs here in South Africa, in 1976, I believe it worked because the environment then was completely different to ours now, they had to protest to get government attention. Now it should be easy to communicate to the government because the idea is we are no longer oppressed. Communication lines to the public should be transparent not just as an idea in our minds but should be a planned and well implemented strategy, given first priority by the government. Is the protest in 1976 was to demand attention from the government because of an oppressed community, we are not oppressed now, we should be allowed to live as not oppressed.
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> > I believe before going on a protest we should have a spirit that drives us to archive positive results at the end, and the government of freedom should also make this easy to achieve
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> If the spirit behind a protest is anger and violence, the results will destroy us and leave no legacy for the next generation.
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> > The governments' communication lines with the public should be open in practice not just in speech, be more accessible, then maybe protesting with violence demanding services wouldn't even be a necessary means of communication, getting the governments attention to offer services to it's people, the 'public'.
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> > If the culture of protesting is left to be driven by violence and displaying anger left to persist in our country, the only people being robbed of a more benefitting chance of freedom and a bright future is the next generation.
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> > They'll have nothing to pride themselves of us, instead they'll have a burden to rebuild what we have destroyed, which we could have preserved.
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> > The youth of 1976 fought for their subject of choice, and for our freedom too.
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> > We need to learn to choose our battles well, put a spirit of winning and building a legacy for the next generation, not destroy, and deprive them a sense of pride and a possible much better future than ours, just like the youth uprising had us in mind let us not be selfish to the next generation they depend on us being strong for them spiritually as the future exist on the spiritual realm .
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> > what seems to have changed since the youth of 1976 and today's youth, is the spirit behind the protests,in 1976 the spirit that drove, the youth to protest did not get the youth destroy Health institutes in Soweto, if they did we would have been deprived of an opportunity to know institutes, like Baragwanath hospital, it would have been touched. I believe if their protest was not driven by the spirit of freedom; places like the stadiums, would have been destroyed during the protest.
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> > This gives a clear idea of how the youth of 1976 respected places that provided service. They protected what is of good service to the public. They werw more spiritual and passionate about achieving freedom.
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> Common question is, What causes the youth today, not to protect places of public service, like the clinics, why are we destroying what is of help to us just because we need what we do not yet have.
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> Youth of 1976 fought against systems that deprived them freedom, not destroying places of service. We need to learn from them how to choose our battles well .
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> We need to ask our selves is it the government system of providing services to the public, that we are not satisfied with or is it the places of public service that we destroy which we are not satisfied of?.
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> Let's not kill, steal and destroy the future and freedom of the next generation.
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> Picture of poster
> From kalamu.com Mandela picture
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> Picture of a burnt book
> From news24
