Youth Day June 16 is all about human rights. But, give a thought to human duties and what it takes to play in this game of life.

1. Volksrust Recorder - Column/Rubrieke10 Recorder 17 June 2016
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It does not matter how much pain you feel
because that does not make you inferior.
There are situations that would test your
wellbeing but you need to stay focused and
pray unto the Lord as He will set you free
from all your burdens. Millions of people
have lost direction due to pain and torture,
did you ever wonder why? In some instances
they undergo a difficult process to heal the
pain but cannot find the remedy to solve the
problem quickly.
The solution to all this is God. He will fight
the battles on your behalf. Further changes
will no longer be a problem but a stepping
stone towards success. God will use you to
teach His gospel and educate people who
facesimilarpainwhichyouhaveexperienced.
It does not matter how much time it takes,
what is important at the end of the journey,
is that there is a lifetime of happiness. After
God’s intervention nothing will stop you to
fly high like an eagle.
Be still and know God is with you all the
time. Faith without action will not make you
choose or make the right decisions.
Thoughts that count make you a better
person. Try Him and He will never let you
down. Many people have undergone similar
problems, pain and misery but today they
live happy lives because His presence has
taken away all their doubt.
Let God Fight for You
Duty Is the
Payment to Play
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June 16, 1976 was a crucible moment in our
history. A brief moment in time where the
destiny we live in today was forged with the
blood of our children. A moment that was
the beginning of the end for the repressive
apartheid system.
A system that gave rights and entitlement
to one grouping of humans at the expense
of another.
Today we celebrate Youth Day. The right of
the youth to forge out its own destiny. The
right to be human. Human rights for want of
a better phrase.
I sometimes trip up on the concept of human
rights, though. I bandy it about with the best
of my liberal friends. It’s a nice motherhood
statement that rolls perfectly off the tongue
... “Human rights”. But when I think about
it, it also has a shadow side.
There’s no doubt that when a child is born
it’s automatically entitled to rights. The right
to be fed, clothed, protected and educated.
It can, after all barely fend for itself.
If it lived in a perfect world, a child could
expect to be entitled to its rights up until
around 22 when it qualifies from university.
Until then it’s pretty much a non-
contributing human in society. Today’s
society has engineered things in such a way,
that the youth can be nothing but takers.
This is the way of the world and is accepted
as the norm.
Of course, it’s only when the young adult
gets to go to work (if it’s lucky enough to
find employment) that there’s a radical shift
in how things are. Its sense of entitlement is
crushed underfoot by the realities of this
world. Now the world becomes a world of
‘duties’. It now realises that it can’t eat
rights. Rights don’t put food on the table
and clothes on the back. Rights don’t put a
roof over its head. It now has a duty to feed,
clothe and house itself. Either that or it dies.
It will also try and find a mate and start a
family.And, the circle begins again.
You see, when we’re brought up to think
that we’re entitled to rights it makes for
disgruntled and disillusioned adults. It also
makes for powerless adults.
Think about it. When you want something
from another person, that person has the
ability to withhold that which you want. This
makes you weak and gives power to the other
person. Thus, you’re always a slave to the
whim of the other.
And, when we don’t get what we want, we
get up to the most unbelievable mischief.
We’ve seen the tantrums our youth and
adults, for that matter, can throw. Burning of
classrooms, burning of schools, burning of
universities, the so-called service level
protests and a litany of other irrational
behaviours. Why? Because we have been
brought up to think that we have rights. We
have been brought up entitled. We think that
we are owed. And, of course that is not the
case, is it?
This universe that we’ve been born into
owes us nothing. We’ve been given a brief
opportunity by something inconceivably
bigger than us to play on this planet and
burn as bright as we can. For that alone we
have more than is due to us. For that alone
we should be in awe and gratitude. So, if I
tease out this theme a bit more, I actually
don’t think we are entitled to anything and
actually have no rights. What we do have is
a debt we need to pay for being created.
And that debt is serviced by a currency
called duty. It’s our duty to be good parents.
It’s our duty to be good children. It’s our
duty to be good citizens. It’s our duty to set
every other human being on this planet up
for success. It’s our duty to be a phenomenal
human being. I don’t know about you, but I
don’t think this is such a high price to pay
for the blessings we’ve already received and
for those that are still coming to us, do you?
I feel that we should teach our children about
duties long before they reach 22.
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New data on new mortgage lending from the
South African Reserve Bank shows a
significant year-on-year decline – which is
in line with numerous indicators of
residential activity pointing to slowdown in
the property sector.
The June 2016 SARB Quarterly Bulletin
showed the value of new residential
mortgage loans granted have declined by
14.57% year-on-year for the 1st quarter of
2016.
“This is significantly slower compared with
positive growth of 15.2% year-on-year in the
previous quarter, and now reflecting a very
significant turnaround since the 50.2% year-
on-year multi-year high reached in the 1st
quarter of 2014,” said John Loos, household
and property sector strategist at FNB.
Both the commercial and residential sub-
components were “drags” on the growth rate
in the 1st quarter. The value of residential
mortgages granted declined by 13.8% year-
on-year,whilethatof commercialmortgages
declined by 14.9% in the same quarter.
reflect a significant slowing on the prior
quarter’s positive growth.
StatsSA last week reported South Africa
recorded a negative growth rate of -1.2% in
the first quarter of 2016, while the country’s
unemployment rate increased to 26.7% of the
labour force, up 2.2% from the previous
quarter.
Loos pointed out that for the residential
mortgage lending sector, the 1st quarter of
2016 was the 3rd consecutive quarter of
growth slowdown in the value of mortgage
loans granted.
The property market analyst said that the
residential market is arguably the more
“leading sector”, with home loans applicants
responding more swiftly to any economic or
interest rate changes.
“This market has long since begun to
respond to rising interest rates since early-
2014, as well as to four years of deteriorating
economic growth, and slowing growth in
new residential loans granted had for a while
suggests that commercial grants would soon
follow that trend at a later stage.”Both these sectors’ negative growth rates
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