Working together
04/04/2007 12:02  - (SA)  

Dear Editor,

Amongst all the talk from Mbeki's office about racism still being rampant in our land, I was encouraged with what I witnessed recently.

Travelling back to Cape Town from a family visit near Worcster in a heavy rainstorm my wife and I watched in horror as a car near us went off the road and rolled into deep ditch.

We stopped immediately as did another car. We were the only two that witnessed what had happened and the car that had rolled was lying on its roof in a ditch so deep that it could not be seen from the road.

We got out in the pouring rain and ran to see what we could do as did the couple form the other car. At the same time a passing taxi packed full of people stopped to see why we had stopped. Before one could blink there about 10 people jumping in to assist.

My wife was on her cell phone to the police, the lady from the other car that had stopped was organising the people wanting to assist. A young coloured man managed with a lot of difficulty to get a door open and everyone worked to help the people trapped inside; a young black lady and her child.

Someone had seen a police car further up the road, so I jumped in my car a went to go fetch him.

As I ran to my car and looked back it occurred to me how well the new South African was working at that very moment. Black, Coloured, Afrikaaner and Englishman.

Stephen Lipp,
Bellville

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