"Social Cohesion" ???

It's become common sense that our South Africa which is adored by the rest of the world for its imaginable "rainbow nation", remains a land of two halves and in need of some "social cohesion" as many have liberally said. But is social cohesion really what we need right now?

Now I've got a problem with the way social cohesion has been seen as the solution to South Africa's problems, without looking at the economy and its one sided ownership. If Social cohesion means we as black and white people must unite, hold hands, and sing together only when it suits our white compatriots and after all that return to our townships which black people have lived there as a direct result of apartheid and back to poverty, unemployment and the harsh reality of being black, then I personally as a black child don't want to be part of this social cohesion.

We as South Africans, need to fundamentally understand that the fight against apartheid, wasn't a mere fight that black people could now enter areas regarded as "Net Blankes" meaning, white persons only, but the fight against this inhumane regime, was that of the disposition of our land and eventually our economy.

Social cohesion will never work until the question around the economy and the land has been answered, in the sense that the economy, the land, and the means of production are placed in the hands of the black majority.

How should there be social cohesion when there's nothing economically coherent about our country, because without dealing with the structural flaws in our economy we can never have a successful social cohesion plan. Truth of the matter is, if social cohesion means celebrating each other as white and black people, I would indirectly be celebrating the legacy of apartheid and of black pain without redressing the core issues here.

What's there to celebrate as all white people have in fact benefited from apartheid even to this day, were they've had the privilege of being economically viable, and as a result, all black people have suffered from the inequities of the past and therefore I cannot fully accept the notion of celebrating each other, without transforming the economy first.

As a young black student, by celebrating and embracing white people as part of social cohesion, I would be in fact embracing whiteness and how they've benefited from a system which was perfectly created to benefit them leaving the majority marginalized, the same way as a white person who'll be supporting social cohesion without focusing on redressing the inequities of the past would be celebrating black pain.

Failing to redress the inequities adds on to centuries of black pain and black suffering, and now focusing on social cohesion would in fact not be solving the problem but putting it under the table and leaving the wound untreated, which would then lead to many other problems.

The only plan we need as South Africans at the moment, is an economic plan to help us redress the inequities of the past and how all South Africans can come together towards that shared goal. We need economic cohesion first in our country and therefore dealing with poverty and unemployment as a direct result of the injustices of the past.

I mean we share the same national flag, the same seasons and we sing the same national anthem, so why don't we share the economy according to the demographics of our country.