Jansen thinks that South Africa is a sick country due to violence taking place in our country and interpreting things according to race. I agree with Jansen because South Africans are obsessed with the past and they are dwelling on the past. In 2008 there were xenophobic attacks in South Africa whereby people from other countries were brutally killed and beaten, and then it happened again in 2015 whereby South African started to burn down the businesses owned by people from other foreign countries and they burned other people alive and hundreds of people were brutally killed. Before 1994 black people were discriminated whereby the government of the country favored white people. Racism is still taking place in South Africa even after Nelson …show more content…
I agree with Jansen because South Africans are still traumatized because of what happened in the past due to family members and friends that they lost and the humiliation they received from other people. There are situations that are still taking place in South Africa that shows that we as South Africans have not yet recovered from apartheid which are that white population is still more developed than black population, and this increases hatred among people. For example many white people live in the developed suburbs while many black people are living in the squatter camps without electricity and clean water. People have not yet recovered from apartheid for example in the 3rd of April 2010 Eugene Terre Blanche was murdered by his employee due to racial tensions, discrimination and the way Eugene treated black people because of their skin color. So according to Jansen we as a country need a national trauma unit to help us as a country to heal and