Why Is South Africa A Sick Country?

There are many underlining issues in South Africa that have to be dealt with in order for our country to be called a rainbow nation. Post 1994 since our very first democratic elections South Africa has known no peace. It seems like the spirit of violence that was in the apartheid era was passed on to the new democratic South Africa as we are having violence, racism, hatred, bitterness, anger etc. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.” We as South African need to leave the past in the past and focus on our future because dwelling in the past brings nothing but pain which leads to destruction. Jonathan Jansen sets straight a few things that he sees will work for our country in making it a rainbow nation and that could be done through dialogue.
Why is South Africa a sick country?
Race
1994 was the year in which we had our first democratic election and in which we hoped to have a better South Africa. I believe that South Africa was called a rainbow nation not any to describe the diversity of our country’s culture but also to symbolize the harmony in which we must live in, no matter what race we are. Our country still has a long way to go in order for it to be a nation that lives in harmony. Apartheid left many South Africans with wound and the scare are not fading away, even 21 year later we are still having the social division which it created based on our race which brings havoc. I also believe our country is sick because of the racial issues we are having lately as in every dispute between a black and a white person is label a racial attack and the white person is always seen as the perpetrator and the black person as a