Afternoon

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My contact number is 0837098389.

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From: Peter Wright <south-africa->
Sent: 29 May 2018 01:08:00 PM
To: Ajabulile Mtiya
Subject: Will you hear our cry?

Dear Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture

Peter Wright has sent you the following message via south-africa-committees (http://south-africa-committees.writeinpublic.pa.org.za/en/)


Dear Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture,

We are the youth and we are ready to work, in fact we work without
end. We develop the youth, we heal our communities, we establish
care centres, we start community gyms, we start after school
activities, as so much more. We do it all without any money,
without any support and without any mentorship. We are the miracle
workers of this nation and we know how to turn dust into diamonds.

We have become used to disappointment and used to being ignored
and told to wait, we have given up on asking for assistance from
the DAC, the NYDA, or any other quarter designed to help us. We
have attended your conferences, we have submitted our funding
proposals, we have jumped through every hoop you have set up for
us, and yet you still end up not replying to our calls, or denying
us access to much needed resources based on incomplete checklists
or lack of political connection.

We have beseeched you to hear us but only a baby cries without
end, therefor we have become mute and of silent resolve to keep
working with or without your help. If you knew how many we were,
how passionate we are and how strong we are you would not rest
until you have exhausted every means to support us in our work.
Yet we are still ignored, outcast and forgotten.

However, we too know that you are trying to do your best in a
climate of complicated policy and bureaucratic red tape that
suffocates your desires to help us. We entreat you to open your
hearts to us and to bring yourself down to our level, the grass
roots level. We ask that you take it upon yourselves to support us
in our work because we can only do what we do for so long until we
collapse from exhaustion.

We only ask for one thing, and that is sustained financial
support. Our families are asking us to move on to the next thing,
to go and get that call centre job, to go and take that job at
Shoprite or as a security guard, yet now we are forced to defy
them too in our conviction that the work we do has value.We, the
youth, should no longer be expected to volunteer, to receive a
stipend, or to work for free. We should not be expected to prove
our worth to you, rather you should be recognising us and
supporting us with real and selfless commitment.

We are tired of crying, and we are tired of begging. This land is
our land and the future belongs to us. We are the ones who will
forge ahead, and one day we will remember how little you did for
us when we needed you. We see you, yet you do not see us!

Yours in love for our country, for our people and for our
collective destiny.


Peter Wright


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