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The Times of No Pound

APARTHEID REGIME IS LONG PAST BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN SUFFERED DEARLY UNDER OPPRESSION SHE GOT LIBERATED IN 1994 OR SHOULD I SAY SHE GOT POLITICALLY LIBERATED WHEN WE CAST OUR FIRST VOTES WHICH LET TO THE INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA HOWEVER,BEING LIBERATED ONLY MEANT DEMOCRATICALLY TO THIS DAY,WE STILL NOT LIBERATED FROM THE SHACKLES OF DISEASE WHICH HAS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF SO MANY AND STILL CONTINUES TO DEVASTATE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AT LARGE INTIMACY HAS BEEN ENGULFED WITH SO MANY BOUNDARIES FEAR HAS BEEN INSTILLED IN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US YOU CANT HELP WONDERING IF TOMORROW ,YOU WILL BE THE ONE OF THE CASUALTIES OF THE ENORMOUS MONSTER WITHIN US AND SUBSEQUENTLY A STATISTIC YOU LOOK YOUR CHILDREN IN THEIR EYES THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS PRAY AND LIVE FOR THE MOMENT THE REST YOU LEAVE IT IN GODS HANDS INDEED ,WE ARE LIVING IN THE TIMES OF NO POUND AT ALL

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