Muizenberg Community Centre Building

The Muizenberg community centre has been vacant for over a year now. To what purpose? The roof has been replaced. That's it.

We as the previous tenants have been thrown out and lost our businesses. The traffic department that supposedly had an urgent agenda to move in have not done so.

There has been security there for over a year for the sole purpose of preventing the homeless, who were previously housed there,  not to move back in.

That is a year that we have not earned revenue from the small businesses we had there, which helped and supported the homeless. A year that the homeless have been back on the streets. Sleeping in the cold wind and rain.

One of them had told me that they have had to join a gang in Muizenberg to survive.

In Muizenberg? To survive on the street you have to join a gang. This is the result of kicking the homeless into the street.

One year and if this is what is happening on our streets shouldn't we rather provide them with the accommodation they deserve. The homeless are our eyes and ears in our town. They have to know what is gong on to be able to survive. Look after then and they will look after you. It's almost like paying protection.

Celebrating Christmas Sober

Celebrating Christmas is not about giving presents and drinking or partying.

To start with why wait for Xmas to give? Should we not be giving at all times in some way or another? Giving does not have to be a tangible gift, it could be a smile, a hug, a kind deed etc.

Christmas for many seems to be a license to drink as much as possible to show that you are happy and that you are celebrating Christmas in an insanely jovial spirit.

Christmas has become so commercially viable that even the Christians partake in the festivities and only going to church to make sure that others see them there.

If this was the normal way to conduct one because of someone’s birthday, then should we not be partying and getting drunk everyday, because we should be celebrating what Jesus did for us on that cross of salvation everyday.

Christmas is a time to reflect on who we really are, and how we can use our expertise to help others in even the smallest way. It is a time to forgive and forget our transgressions and those done to us. 

The amount of time that is wasted looking back does not allow us to look forward to all the wonders that are ahead of us.

It is a time to move forward and stop looking back at the past because it is gone.

The Past is history

The Future is a Myth

The day, Today, is now, a gift, the moment we are living in. That is why it is called the Present.

Be thankful for this moment.