Broadcast excerpt·SAT, 05 SEPT 2026 · 06:21:38–06:24:37 SAST
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It was beautiful weather when spring day arrived. And so, yes, of course, we want to celebrate. Yes, of course, we want to, you know, do the old traditions that we know of from when we were growing up. But when did it become so? What needs to happen? Let me put it: what needs to happen? That we perhaps as the adults now, because we are the adults now, that we should now be the ones to teach the younger generation that this is how it's done. Leave the adults alone. Leave them.
No need. Leave the adults alone, number one. Number two, if you know that someone does not have the ability to take part in what you want to do, a person with a hearing impairment, a person that is disabled, you know, a person that's on a wheelchair or using crutches to get around, a person that cannot move physically themselves all the time properly like we can, leave them because they obviously don't want to take part in.
Part in it as well. Because how are you expecting a person that is using crutches to run away from you? Let me give you another talking about someone running away. This young man that I work with, his niece, his name is Sipoi, but his niece is hospitalized as we speak because of spring day and water issues. She was running away from people that were trying.
To pour water on her because she did not want to take part in it. And she runs into the road and she gets hit by a truck. It is by the grace of God that this young girl is just her foot that is badly damaged and is terribly injured. She went into the theater, it seems everything is fine, but she is in hospital. She's
In hospital because of spring day celebrations because she was running away from not wanting to take part and not wanting to have water splashed on her, and she is now hospitalized, hit by a truck. I said to Sipa, said, you know, it's by God's grace that she's speaking. She's talking fine, perfectly fine. It's just her foot that is injured terribly, badly. And my thing is: when did we get to this point?
And why are we okay with it? Why is a khalimilibana? Or this is not how it's done? Why is a khalimiliban or this? Or why don't we educate Banabaro, or this is actually how it should be done? Not what they're currently doing. Because now there's no enjoyment in the way that they are doing things. It really is just so disheartening to hear and to see the reports that actually happen.
When it comes to spring day, now I don't remember these kinds of reports when I was younger. Maybe I was oblivious to them, but I don't remember these kinds of reports because we knew that we are splashing the water at each other as children and we do it kindly. You know, you don't just suddenly, when a person is walking, yeah, fine, suddenly when a person is walking up, you have fuchu, water, but you do it kindly. And it used to be kind, man. Ah, it's just me.
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