OPINION: Staying sane in a country that's gone crazy

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OPINION: Staying sane in a country that's gone crazy | SusanErasmus

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I am reeling. I know that I am not alone in feeling this way. The last week or two would have been a challenge to the most determined optimist – between xenophobic attacks, horrific rape/murders, endless revelations of sanctioned looting over the last few years, I am finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning. Or into it at night, for that matter.

And yet the awful story of Uyinene has affected me, and thousands of others, in a grim, haunting and visceral manner. Placards and marches send the right signals, unite people, and give a very necessary platform for venting despair, outrage, fear and sorrow. But people did that when Anene Booysen died. And Khwezi. And Hannah Cornelius.

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