Day of Reconciliation

Today in South Africa, thousands of people protested that our president #Zumamustfall

It's been a terrible week for South Africans and our poor rand, which dropped about 10% in the two days to R24,30 after our Finance Minister Nene was removed and replaced by unknown van Rooyen. Four days later, Zuma appointed one of our previous Finance Ministers Pravin Gordhan to replace van Rooyen.

Although the rand has recovered a little, South Africa has a mammoth task ahead. Finch has already downgraded South Africa's credit rating and today Moody has downgraded us from stable to negative. It's only a matter of time, when all our ratings will be made junk. Then the country is in deep trouble and we can say goodbye to our dear rand.

We are in the UK at the worst possible time with our weak rand. Rent is about 1000GBP a month so R24k! Zuma's bad decisions have just us a lot, and I mean lot more money, for us to be here in the UK and for Athol to study. If the rand deteriorates a lot more, we might have to re-consider staying here.

It is so sad watching our beloved South Africa go from bad to worst, and the government isn't doing anything to fix things. The corruption, crime and unhappiness of citizens continues. I was saddened to hear that an 85 year old Chinese lady was raped in Malvern on 7 December and her 62 year old son shot in the head, all this for R1500 cash and some other items. What kind of a world has this become. Today there was a march in JHB to appeal to the police to catch the culprits - so sad that we have to march and beg our police for safety and justice.

South Africa is such a great country, great weather, property and things are cheap, great food but the government and crime is really making things unpleasant. I pray for South Africa, I pray for justice, peace, no more corruption, no more crime.

While here in the UK it is cold and rainy and dark most days, but there is a darkness looming in South Africa.