MORAL DECAY LEVELS APPALLING

Sir,

We all know that our moral turpitude and degradation has reached alarming proportions. There now seems to be a deliberate and indifferent attitude among many to engage in disgraceful behaviour and not feel embarrassed about it. People just steal, defraud and fornicate or commit adultery without the slightest consideration for those likely to be affected by their escapades.

It seems like people are just determined to quench their fiery lusts at all costs. Everywhere you turn there is a sexual scandal; and the reason these are not in the press every day is because a number of these stories are ‘killed’; again using unorthodox means like, bribery. The men in our leadership are the initiators of this evil; as some are known to intimidate women with the intention of making their will pliable, or buy their way into their pants by lavishly spending money on them or promise them advancement in the workplace. We hear of bizarre stories of women in positions that used the ‘bottom up’ approach as their bosses exchanged positions for sexual favours. Tragic isn’t it?

When you try to find the root cause to this immorality, people start attributing it to a lack of codes of conducts as if these codes would suddenly do the magic and convert hardened immoral behaviour; which it will not. We can make codes of conduct all we want, but we are not going to change the mentality of fornicators and adulterers. 

Married

Men know they are not supposed to ‘giya’ in front of married women. But today men go after married women as if they are going after a girl. In the old days men like that were exterminated, humiliated and shunned by their regiments as a sanction for the wayward conduct. Why? Because that conduct brought dishonour to the man, the regiment and the woman involved as well.

The good book says marriage is to be respected by all; the spouses, and other members of society. The surprising thing in our country is that some of the men at the forefront of this practice are in polygamous marriages, and you wonder whether it’s libido or downright immorality that drives them to wreck other people’s marriages. There are ramifications to this conduct; a breakdown of the family unit, dishonour on the perpetrators and untold suffering to the children of the family that has to lose a mother or father in the process; children are the most affected if they are still young. 

Given what is happening all around us, I believe it is time we introspect; by asking ourselves if we are still behaving like the responsible people worthy of the respect bestowed upon us as adults and parents? And before we act to gratify our lust, we need to think of the consequences to our children and society around us. This should be the beginning of the repair work that needs to be done to get our morality back on track once again. 

Babe Dlamini

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