The distraction of the black South African Men.
I choose this title because of a concern that has been growing in me for some time now. The intention behind this title is not incite a debut on gender prejudices, but to discuss and analysis the social realities and condition of a straight black man in the township. I wrote this article as a way to discover the source of my fears concerning our condition in townships. Thus this article will only deal with the things I have witness personally, if this article does speak to some reading it please add a comment of your experiences. In the Townships of Tshwane (Mabopane and Soshanguve) there is a growing culture of lost young men in between the ages of 20-35. Lost in sense that they have lost direction of their lives by abandoning the goals which they set for themselves when they were young. Most of these young men have given lives to drugs, gambling and life crime.
This article seeks to discover the reasons behind the development of this attitude amongst black men straight in townships. The author will take a backward look into his life to try and identify somethings in his childhood that might have contributed to the emergence of these social conditions. By doing this he will search in his memory how the childhood conditions of his friends and himself shaped their life to date. The author will make a critical analysis of the culture, believes and background which were common amongst him and his friends.
In townships children just grow there is no cultural hierarchy or identity. An adult and child share almost the same privileges. By the age of twelve a black boy is already exposed to pornography on the internet and possibly mustabiting. In this age alone the child is already contampting to have sex, their sexuality is not controlled through sex education. Some are even experimenting with alcohol and drugs.
In between the ages of 12-16 young boys try to out shine each other with accessories, like clothes, shoe
