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GUYS, I JUST SAW SUCH AN EMOTIONAL VIDEO. POSTED THAT HER MOTHER WAS IN HOSPITAL AND SHE HAD NOBODY TO GO CHECK ON HER, NO FAMILY NEARBY, NO ONE TO CALL, NO ONE TO SIT BESIDE HER MOTHER. AND THEN SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL HAPPENED THE TIMELINE PULLED UP. STRANGERS STARTED GOING TO THE HOSPITAL TO CHECK ON THIS WOMAN'S MOTHER. PEOPLE WHO HAD NEVER MET HER, PEOPLE WHO OWED HER ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. AND THAT RIGHT THERE, IS SOUTH AFRICA, THE SOUTHA BECAUSE YES, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT, WE CAN TALK ABOUT CORRUPTION, WE CAN TALK ABOUT CRIME, WE CAN TALK ABOUT HOW BADLY ORDINARY PEOPLE ARE SOMETIMES FAILED BY THE SYSTEMS THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT THEM. BUT PLEASE DON'T LET THE FAILURES OF OUR LEADERS CONVINCE YOU THAT WE ARE FAILED PEOPLE. BECAUSE SOMEWHERE, SOMEWHERE UNDERNEATH ALL THE FRUSTRATION, ALL THE POVERTY, ALL THE POLITICS, ALL THE PROBLEMS, THERE IS STILL UBUNTU. A STRANGER SEES ANOTHER HUMAN BEING HURTING AND SAYS, HAIbo, LET ME GO CHECK ON YOUR MOTHER. NO CONTRACT, NO PAYMENT, NO POLITICAL PARTY, NO HASHTAGS REQUIRED, JUST HUMANITY. AND IMAGINE, IMAGINE IF WE TOOK THAT SAME ENERGY AND APPLIED IT EVERYWHERE. IF SOUTH AFRICANS SUPPORTED EACH OTHER'S BUSINESSES, CHECKED ON EACH OTHER'S ELDERLY, HELPED YOUNG PEOPLE FIND OPPORTUNITIES, SHARED INFORMATION INSTEAD OF GATEKEEPING IT STOPPED CELEBRATING EACH OTHER'S DOWNFALL, BUILT COMMUNITIES INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR GOVERNMENT. TO SAVE US, WE WOULD BE DANGEROUS BECAUSE A COUNTRY DOES NOT ONLY BECOME POWERFUL WHEN ITS GOVERNMENT BECOMES POWERFUL. SOMETIMES A COUNTRY BECOMES POWERFUL WHEN ITS PEOPLE REALISE HOW POWERFUL THEY ARE. TOGETHER, WE HAVE OUR PROBLEMS. BUT DON'T EVER TELL ME SOUTH AFRICA HAS NO HEART. WE ALL SEEN IT. I'VE SEEN THE TIMELINE PULL UP. THAT'S UBUNTU.