Freedom Day feels different when you grew up in the rural areas of South Africa.🤷🏼♀️🫶🏼
You learn early that freedom is not only about what is legally possible. It is also about what you believe you are worthy enough to reach for.
I have gone from small rural spaces to travelling the world, and one thing has stayed with me:
No matter how big the opportunity in front of us is, if we do not believe we are worth it, we will struggle to take the chance.
Because life can become a constant fight against poverty, not only financial poverty, but poverty of resources, love, respect, equality, dignity, and opportunity.
And yet, at the heart of our Constitution is something deeply human:
Our worth.
Our dignity.
Our humanity.
Ubuntu says: I am because we are.
But somewhere along the way, many of us forgot that we are worthy. We started trying to change ourselves to fit the standards of an ever-changing world, forgetting that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Before we a...
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