Failure Isn't Final. Harold Mawela

 Burdens Broken, Bit by Bit A Harold Mawela Devotional from Akasia, Pretoria My brothers and sisters, fellow sojourners in this beautiful yet beleaguered land—greetings from the dusty streets of Akasia, where the weight of the world presses down like a Pretoria summer afternoon before the thunder breaks. I walk these roads. I see the faces. I hear the whispers. Just this past week, the news from our own community has been sobering. Our Akasia Police Station the very bastion meant to guard our families and futures is itself a fortress under siege. Tasked with patrolling one hundred and fifty square kilometres, it has barely five operational vehicles for visible policing. Suspects are processed in boardrooms because there are no holding cells. Officers, dedicated and determined, are being hospitalised for depression under the crushing weight of crumbling infrastructure. The Akasia CPF, brave and beleaguered, fights valiantly against property crime and gender-based violence yet even t...