In the 17th century, our esteemed Chief Mohlomi Mokoena, a healer and one of the greatest philosophers that the world has ever seen, made a substantial and courageous initiative to promote mercy, love, and peace, and protect the vulnerable. He also made the following statement. He said: “Peace is delicate and fragile, just like those who are vulnerable; women, children, young people, and those who are different from us”.

King Moshoeshoe-I on peace: “Peace is the rain that makes grass grow. War is the wind that dries it up. I want peace”.

Former President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela on peace, poverty, and race: On poverty, he said, “Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. The dire poverty of some is not an affliction that impacts only those who are deprived. It reverberates across the globe and ineluctably impacts negatively on the whole of humanity, including those who live in conditions of comfort and plenty.”

Mandela on peace he said: “Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish, regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, class, caste, or any other social markers of difference. Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all.

300 Years later – “A luta continua”

• • The contemporary global environment presents significant challenges and hostility to the vulnerable, peace, and the concept of love. The world we live in is a bit of a jungle, cruel and merciless towards the vulnerable, mainly women, youth, children, and those different from us. Love and peace and social security are also threatened…
  • The economic cruelty and hostility against love, peace, mercy, and the vulnerable continues
  • World military budgets are in trillions of Euros, driven by the world’s multibillionaires, and yet millions of children go for days without food.
  • South Africa and Sub-Saharan are typical environments of such hostility towards the vulnerable, mercy, love, and peace.
  • The “Culture of Economic-Exclusion” continues to marginalize the vulnerable, love, mercy, and peace across the globe.
  • In South Africa, we are 30 Years into Democracy,

1. Thirty years of democracy, 10% of the 300 years since Chief Mohlomi Mokoena’s emphasis on the significance of a merciful, loving, peaceful, inclusive economy.
2. Three decades after the former President Mandela walked in the footsteps of Moshweshwe-I and established South Africa on principles of mercy, love, and peace,
3. This “Economic-Exclusion-Culture” is continuously dividing and conquering the hearts and souls of Rainbow-Nation children, mercilessly. This culture is sowing the seeds of economic selfishness, brutality, and self-destruction. 
4. As a result, the gap between the rich and poor youth | women | and men is widening and threatening social Peace in South Africa.
5. This culture is subjecting rural SA, townships, the poor, and the vulnerable to heartless conditions of endless unemployment, hunger, and charity wages.