Real Activism is a Rare Skill

Real activism not the toy-toying around that we see today is a rare skill.
It takes a great deal of bravery to speak your mind and stand up for your rights especially in a political or work environment.
Everybody knows that challenging your employer or a statesman is not always the wisest thing to do as it may block your path.
I know many a people whose career lives suddenly reached a cul-de-sac because they challenged the "wrong people".
Wrong meaning people in the position of power, people who have the capacity to either make you or break you.
But there are those activists that deserve to fry in the enemy pan because they lack tact. Activism does not mean devilism.
There is a manner to raise concerns and hurling insults at the other party and calling them names has never gone universally unpunished and the sooner the people learn this, the better.
Every act, good or bad has its own karmic debt, with its own retribution date, guaranteed to give you the same satisfaction as the one endured by your victim.
If you hurt, you will be hurt, if you hate, you will be hated, if you gossip, you will be gossiped about and if you spread love, you will be loved.
This universal law of attraction does not err. Hence the saying do unto others, what you would like done unto you.
You can't humiliate people and not expect to be humiliated yourself and the sad part is that none of us have control over the day when everything will be coming back to us. Hence the constant preaching in temples, churches and mosques, to try and do good to others, so that the next generation can follow in the love footsteps.
Most people don't like politicians because they say that they are habitual liars that overpromise and never deliver. The public has very high expectation of our public figures and they feel like the politicians owe it to them to lead the best lives they can live and to never put a single foot wrong.
I agree that they must strive to live exemplary but I think we should not grind them up the moment they falter. We can report on their mistakes but not on their person. What happened to playing the ball and not the person. Why does everybody want to play dirty nowadays. People no longer pay attention to the ramifications of their actions, because they think that thy are immune to the laws of the universe.
What makes you think that you can get away with degrading a person without getting degraded yourself?
Take the Dr. Manto Tshabalala-Msimang saga. She is not my relative or anything, so nobody sent me. The activist in me couldn't just let it go without asking the question, What stopped Mondi Makhanya, the Sunday Times editor from reporting her theft allegations, power and alcohol abuse allegations without having to call her a kleptomaniac, alcoholic etc. as none of these psychological conditions have been proven?
I am not asking the media to go easy on wrong-doers but I am asking them to apply due consideration in their report writing. There is no payoff in writing dirty but there are consequences to that. You might go the naive route and say it won't happen to me cause "I live responsibly and watch every step", but here's a warning to all those media people who thrive on sensationalism... "no walk in life is guaranteed..one of these days, you will accidentally miss a step, come rolling down the stairs and guess what? The whole nation will be watching and laughing while your media colleaques will be clicking away at your downfall...zero empathy given"
The law of attraction is alive and well and if you think, it won't catch up with you cause you are too fast for it..I feel sorry for you because iyeza nakuwe(its coming to you). The chances are that you will be caught off guard and I am told that the offguarfd fall is usually the hardest and the most memorable..