Bou nou 'n volk met so nasie

Vir Suid-Afrika om 'n nasie te word het ons 'n paar eienskappe nodig, volgens die ANC Today van 10 Junie. Dit sluit in:

• Equal rights. All South Africans to enjoy equality before the law and all national and ethnic groups to enjoy equal rights.
• A common territory. All South Africans to live in the same country and territory, not in a balkanised South Africa, not in a constellation of bantustans or 'volkstate'.
• A common economy. Not a prosperous urban economy on the one hand and a hopeless bantustan economy on the other, and not an economy in which opportunity and inclusion depends on race and ethnicity.
• A sense of community. There should be a kindred spirit among all South Africans.
• A common patriotism.
• A common loyalty to the constitution and the democratic state.
• A common South African culture. All South Africans should enjoy the right to practice their own culture. However, there needs to be a critical mass of common culture and cultural practices that all South Africans practice and identify with.
• A mutual respect for languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs of different groups.

Dit klink vir my baie fokken goed. Ons almal bly saam, werk saam en is lojaal en so aan. Rerig 'n moerse ideaal om na te streef. Hoe ver ons al gekom het, is natuurlik 'n ander vraag. Darem al 'n entjie, maar nog nie heellemal so ver as wat ons sou like nie.

Dink ek nou maar...