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Our broken country

I was crying all the way to work again today, a local radio station was busy with a water collection drive for thousands of people in the Free State who have been without water for days.  The generosity of some corporates, small companies and individuals really got to me this morning.  A transport company will assist in getting all these bottles of water to the Free State and I wanted to cry. My own Liam went to school with a five litre bottle of water today as the locals schools are also participating in the water drive.  My seven year old boy buckled under the weight of the bottle as well as his heavy school bag and his tog bag with his stuff for the swimming gala later today.  And that is the part that gets to me, in one bit of the country we are able to have swimming gala’s, kids can splash around to their hearts content and in the other parts people and animals are dying because of the worst drought that the country has seen in many years. The bit that warms my heart thou