One has to be careful in choosing the activities to do on Mandela Day. That is if you plan to make 'every day a Mandela Day' as it was asked of us this year.
I say 'be careful' because I wasn't. And the result was that by the end of the day on Thursday( 18th July) I was physically worn out. What we did at the Soweto Association of Persons with Disabilities( SAPD) was hard labour, ladies and gentlemen. It was back-breaking stuff. Activities included preparing a cement mix (ludaka) and then building a storage room wall thereafter, paving one area of the yard, laying lawn grass in another area, sowing vegetable seeds etc, etc. All of these were physically demanding. As I was taking part in these activities I kept wondering if it was this hard for utata Mandela to fight for our freedom during those 67 years.
But hey, I am not complaining. One could not have passed up an opportunity to pay back utata Mandela - even in a small way - for what he has done for us batho ba Mzansi.
Much love to ausi Shoni and ausi Johanna - both of the SAPD - for hosting us. Thanks to Thema for suggesting the SAPD as a place to do my Mandela Day bit. Many thanks, as well, to RandWater staff - bo-ausi Mmamorena( a fellow poet), ausi Cleo, ntate Nyathi et al - who formed the core of the group that chose to help out at the SAPD on Mandela Day.
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THANK YOU UNIVERSE. THANK YOU FOR OUR 'FEEL GOOD MOMENTS'.
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SO, SOUTH AFRICA AND THE WORLD OUT THERE, WHAT MADE YOU FEEL
GOOD THIS WEEK?
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