April 21, 2021
South Africa has an Alcoholism/ Drunk Driver Problem
Reader recounts family tragedy.
by DB
(henrymakow.com)
The reason I send this email to you is mostly due to a traumatic experience of my father being involved in a head on collision with a drunken driver ( a young white male ) on Sunday the 20th of April at 15:30.
He lost his fiance who he got engaged to the night before ( a fantastic and Godly woman who had so much life in her ). My father is a Christian and is a rock for God, he has even been called by some to be like Peter from the Bible (not trying to idolize him, but his hardcore and even childish faith earned this nickname).
This rock is quite broken now. Just last week a fellow colleague of mine lost her brother to a car accident, again, alcohol was involved. I drive weekly in and out of town to my work which is roughly 70 km (40 miles) and rarely does a trip go by without seeing some sort of disaster on the road (sometimes even more that one in one trip).
I am not a sensitive nor an emotional person, but since experiencing the foul taste of bitter loss this has changed. While waiting in a Government hospital of which I had to literally fight off security to go gain entrance due to this Covid crap and give my deaf father support ( I kid you not, I explained to all of the security that this man just witnessed his fiance get killed and he also is deaf; he probably is in a state of confusion and panic and cannot understand anything that he is being told, the one guard looked at me coldy and told me simply to "Go away", thank the Lord that I had contacts in the hospital).
(My father and his deceased fiance)
I struck up a conversation with a young 24 year old ambulance driver, he revealed to me that he alone on average sees 10 alcohol related deaths a week and that is not even his job!! This is a private ambulance, they don't really deal with this sort of casualty.
I don't know what things are like in the States but the roads in South Africa at the moment are a death trap, people (especially in the Eastern Cape) just do not care how they drive anymore and it has definitely become worse in these lockdowns.
How ironic, our Government banned the sale of booze only for people to end abusing it more. Our country has problems and we as SA citizens unfortunately hold a lot of bitterness in our hearts for many reasons, but this country continues to retard itself by drowning in liquor. This country desperately needs God back in it but we continue to try follow the mold of "Western Society" which wants to throw away everything that past generations worked so hard to achieve. My grandfather would turn in his grave if he saw his beloved South Africa in the state that it is in now.
