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Why I’m an activist

Dineo Rasetshwane

Why I’m an Activist

I saw my community suffering from many things and decided that it was high time I brought about a change in my community. People struggle to go to work, children sometimes struggle to go to school because of the bad conditions of the roads in our community. Women suffer in silence as a result of Gender-based violence, youth are not active. They only become active in blocking roads because of a lack of service delivery due to the unfairness and greediness of people who are supposed to alleviate the high rate of unemployment.

When we become comfortable in a world filled with injustice and inequality, we are not only being unfair to victims and those who look up to us, but we are also failing everyone and making this world the worst place ever. I am an Activist because Activism has played a major role in ending slavery, and apartheid and fighting corruption. Protecting the environment, promoting equality for women, and opposing racism, are some of the reasons I wanted to be an Activist.

Activism can mean sacrifice but you don’t consider yourself a slave because it’s something that you are passionate about. We don’t need a handful of people taking perfect action, even one or two people can do that.