Truth Memoirs

When I am wronged or harmed by someone, I expect that the person who wronged me will be punished for their actions. I want them to suffer the consequences of their behavior. However, I have never felt like this expectation is met. Even when the person suffers exactly how I imagined and how I want them to suffer, it never feels like enough. I have been thinking about alternative ways to respond when I am hurt. I remembered  Nelson Mandela, and how he forgave the people who imprisoned him for 27 years because of his political beliefs. I believe it would be an appropriate response and would please God, if I followed Mandela's example and replaced my expectation of receiving true justice from human beings with forgiveness. In the Kingdom of God, true justice is overcoming evil with good. This means that true justice is only possible through divine intervention and it is not achievable on my own as a mere mortal. Only the divine God is good enough to overcome evil therefore my expectati...

Recently Mbuso Moloi aka Woolies Looter pleaded guilty to charges of theft and public violence related to the looting during the 2021 July Unrest.Public opinion on this turn of events was very divided. There are some people who believe justice was not served because big politicians and corporate officials stole more than him but they have yet to be brought to account. Personally I feel justice is served,we can't compare this case and that of others based on the value involved, each case must be judged on its merit. But truth be told there are instances where I would be the one making the argument made by those who claim justice was not served in this case. This means my kind of justice is fluid depending on who is involved. I realize that this could not be right I need to understand why this is the case. What we see is not all that there is to see. We are privileged to know and appreciate after the fact that Jesus came to save humanity. If the people who killed him were afforded th...

This year marks 30 years since struggle hero Chris Hani was assassinated, earlier in the year his killer Janusz Walus was also paroled. A lot of people were outraged when he was paroled because they did not believe he told the truth about the identity of the person who is the brains behind the assassination. I also thought his parole was an injustice, because he brought this country on the brink of a civil war.I was outraged because his actions are proof that he did not care about the well being of this country so he deserved to rot in jail as far as I was concerned. But I had an opportunity to think hard about my outrage, this is when I realized that my definition of justice in this instance was revenge, but revenge is an obstacle towards my journey to destiny disguised as justice. Revenge is a distraction As a human being I am a vessel of forces in the unseen realm whose motive is to either influence me towards the Creator or away from the Creator. So when I seek revenge on another h...

Bryan Stevenson, a US Human rights lawyer once said Americans should not be asking whether capital punishment is the right thing to do or not but they should be asking whether they have the right to end another human being's life given the flawed American justice system. Bryan Stevenson is the founder of an organization Equal Justice Initiative who have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced. So he knows what he is talking about when he says the American justice system is flawed. We do not have capital punishment in South Africa but I share his views of a flawed justice system, in the South African context especially when I see people escaping punishment because they have the financial means and those without financial means suffer unjust  consequences.These sentiments are shared by many South Africans in circles that I socialize in. This common...