Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa

About the Book

“Before 1994 South Africa practiced a vicious system of oppression. The divisions were clear and vivid. The enemy of the people was well defi ned and clear. Now let us look back at the history of our people from 1994. We are today in the democratic reign of the fourth democratic president of RSA. But still the great majority of our people has hardship and continues to suffer in agony. There is no apartheid and so who should we blame? People are unhappy and angry. This in our time is danger. People blame and hate each other as they compete for scarce government resources. People blame foreigners as the cause of their current state of suffering. People are misled to blame and attack our Councillors and other government offi cials. They are confused by the results and causes and by the causes and results. The time is now for you and me to make an attempt in defi ning the enemy of the people”. Matsime Simon Mohapi, from: “Poverty in the Land of Riches – South Africa”.

About the Author

Matsime Simon Mohapi was born on 06 December 1969 in Klerksdorp. He grew up in Diretsane dusty village. He matriculated at Phatshima High School in Atamelang. He studied UDEP in Hebron College of Education. He further studied FDE Management in Pretoria University. Presently he studies Theology at TEEC in Johannesburg. He was promoted to become a school principal since 1998 and he is a local preacher in the Methodist Church of SA. He is a married family man. He is also a published author and a poet. Matsime Simon Mohapi maintains that he was born in a stony place of sadness at the height of apartheid South Africa. He grew up in a divided South Africa. He lives in a divided South Africa where the gap between the rich and the poor is the widest in the world. He believes that his divine calling is to help the multitudes of poverty wretched people live their lives free from lack, fear, and hatred.