Priority number one is not the Ukraine-Russia war or the upheavalment (see genocide) in Gaza; however, there is a global disintegration of family life all over the world. Masses of people are forced by government legislation to be moved forcibly to desolate and isolated areas far away and scattered over the wide areas of the countries. Fortunately, history can serve a useful purpose in covering the reconstruction of disjointed countries by looking for examples where the forced removals were connected by scattered crowds in South Africa.
In 1948, the National White regime took over and applied the policy of apartheid to control and manage the oppressed people of South Africa. People were paid a pittance for their homes in their residential areas, which they had inherited for more than a hundred and twenty-five years. The people were forced to pack up any remnants of their homes in the declared areas of the Group Areas Act. Demolition trucks pulled up in front of the homes and forcibly removed the people and their goods to move them to an isolated area far away from their homes.
Many protests were conducted throughout the area, hoping to influence the government, to call off their policy of forced removals. The government wanted the people moved with haste, with the result that insufficient schools, churches, mosques and other areas of service were provided throughout the area because the government of the day wanted to move the people with haste; they did not consider the harmful effects that the forced removals would have on the people, particularly the elderly.
Many deaths of the elderly folk were recorded, which did not curtail the forced removals. The main areas of concern to the people were religion, education, sport, and politics. This caused a tremendous amount of hardship to the children who saw the dismal results of an ineffective educational system. Of particular concern to the parents and educators was the implementation of double shifts at school. The school could not provide a full programme for the students since there were no library, hall, or playing fields available. All that pupils could receive was a rudimentary education based on a curtailed school curriculum.
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Educators tackled the double shift with the best motives, at times concentrating on teaching the three R’s and working on a shortened extracurricular. The lack of sports facilities played havoc with the school having to provide a limitation on sport and recreation. The buildings were made of prefabricated material, with the government making promises to the teachers and parents who now had to palm off an inferior educational facility to pupils, learners and parents.
The ground was not suitable for any extra-curricular sport or recreation. It was plagued with big boulders and rocks which were left to the principals, teachers and pupils to remove. With this dismal situation, an inferior educational system was left to principals, teachers and parents to provide for children receiving an inadequate education.
Religious facilities were badly organised, and many of them had no buildings available to serve their needs. Congregations had to make do with these inadequate facilities. They were forced to hold services in inadequate and cramped spaces. Due to the fact that there were financial restraints on religious organisations from providing adequate religious institutions. The fact that religious buildings and other facilities were inadequate made it very difficult for congregants to practice religious doctrines. Due to the lack of finance, all the religious organisations had to spend most of their time in financial endeavours to place suitable facilities for their religion.
Most religious institutions had to be conducted in cramped spaces, in homes and even in classrooms. There was a big strain on congregants raising funds through bazaars, concerts and other endeavours to raise much-needed funds to provide adequate religious facilities. One of the key factors influencing religious concerns was the lack of any suitable funding from the city council or the government. Political involvement of people against the inadequate facilities in the allocated areas brought about a very deep-seated political involvement of all the people affected by the forced removals.
Mass meetings were held in the halls of the area, deep-seated, bringing people together and allowing people like Mr Landman, Dennis Brutus and others to address the deep-seated rejection of the apartheid focus and implementation. Politicians had to face a strong curtailment of their political activities. Members of political parties were banned, exiled, and deported over the whole area that was affected by the forced removals. Letters were written to the local press, which were supported mainly by White liberals, receiving a low-profile exposure and at times were not even published.
Many of the political leaders like Frank Landman, Ofie Salie, Omar Cassim and others were either banned, imprisoned or, even exiled. They had to leave the country and take up residence in an African country, Malawi. This response from the government brought about much pain and suffering for the people affected by the forced removals.
The government and the council moved the people randomly, resulting in many sporting clubs breaking up and being forced to close their ranks. Sporting organisations had the grave function of bringing together different members of teams of different codes of sports due to the inadequate sporting facilities that existed in the Northern Areas.
There were protracted forced removals in Ukraine during Russia’s invasion. Families were broken up. Workers were displaced. Food shortages existed and still exist. A fuel crisis was caused that curtailed electricity. The lack of an adequate supply of water is causing many, many difficulties in the country. This confrontation caused enough eruption of disquiet ramifications in Russia and Ukraine. There were large inadequacies of food, and since Zelensky was the source of inadequate food supply, it caused the fragmentation of severe famine that reached many African countries. Rwanda, Zambia, Congo, and Nigeria. This goes for the most part unrecorded in Western media.
It was left to the powerhouses of Russia and China to attempt to bring the differences under focus. Concerning the war between Israel and Palestine, in Gaza and Rafah in particular, there was extreme hardship and pain, caused by Israeli missiles and bombs that devastated wide areas daily. It is estimated that almost 60, 000 Gazaians were killed by the Israeli onslaught.
