1994

The year you may have thought that you are voting for Nelson Mandela when in fact you were voting for the ANC. You remember them? Those scary people who planted bombs and told the children to make the country ungovernable - yes, them.

The year you may have thought that your dignity will be given back to you; your humaneness be recognised. The year you may have thought that things will change for you. That you too will participate in the toil and wealth of your country. That your employer will no longer treat you like dirt.

That is the year that comrades were rewarded for their contribution to the struggle. The year the oppressors mutated into co-governors. The year the people were left without their land and their dignity.

That year was always going to be the beginning of a long and arduous journey. But first there was to be a transition. First the previously privileged had to be assured that they will not be butchered or their property taken from them. The year the people were told to be patient and to wait.

It is 2009 and the people still believe that the movement will restore their land and dignity. They still believe in the movement because they resent all others that much more. This is the year the people will once again vote their party of choice into power. The power to give them back their land - their dignity.

In 2014 the people will look back on 2009 as they did on 1994 - with nothing but hope, to show for their vote. The white and the privileged will still be white and privileged. The poor, the black and the marginalised; will still be poor, black and marginalised.

That dear friends is the way of the world - the rest just keeps the commentators occupied, helps to sell the newspapers and provide fire-side conversation.

With that - may the forces that regulate the movement of the stars, the forces that regulate the menstrual cycle, the forces that pre-dates you and the movement, keep you.

Your anger and disappointment over recent events is nothing but self-serving - your elation over the same events sadly unwarranted.