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The amount of anger that pervades the air within our communities is palpably scary judging from the violence that we have seen of late.
Violent crime that is being witnessed among our people is quite shocking, and much of the violence is directed towards those that are supposed to be close to us. Just recently we had a son that stabbed his stepmother to death in what appeared to have been an incident fuelled by long simmering anger.
Not only the attack on the woman should worry us, but the motive of the young man that had left his grandmother in the Midlands headed for Hwange to settle a score with his former woodwork teacher.A� This means whatever the teacher might have done to him, the young man never forgave him and this man remains in danger of being attacked since the attacker was found with several home-made knives and was reported to have hunted down the former teacher for days without success.A� This shows the determination of the assailant to eliminate his former teacher and the amount of anger within him.
The question that as a community we should be grappling with is how many such people do we have in our homes, schools, churches and other institutions, and how are we dealing with their issues?A� How safe are we from those wronged or who feel wronged and have bottled up anger for years only to explode on others and what role does counselling play in our lives?A� Do we deal with painful issues head-on or we duck and dive or brush aside such issues that come back to haunt us years later.A� Elsewhere in this issue we have an elderly man that has evicted his adult children from his house claiming that they had gone to the extent of assaulting him for deciding to divorce their mother.
We also have a story of a woman that sought a protection order against her 20-year-old son who was chucking her out of her house for having a child with another man a decade after his father passed away.A� As if this was not enough, we also carry a story about a woman that assaults her husband almost daily over a decade-old dispute.
The common thread in all these cases is that of anger that manifests through violent acts that then shock our communities. Police always counsel that those with issues or disputes, need to seek a third party to resolve such matters but it is also incumbent upon those that stay with such people to assist them by referring them for counselling since one never realises they are failing to deal with their anger until they do something stupid.
This calls for all of us to to train ourselves to recognise an ominous change of behaviour by those with live with, work with or even worship with.A� Some of these behavioural signs are brought about by things done behind closed doors, such as the abuse of drugs, that appears to be on the increase.A� These are issues that we need to confront and find ways of handling so that we stand in the gap that the collapsed the extended family unit and other institutions have created. We need to talk to the experts about our problems instead of these sporadic outbursts on social media by some personalities that reveal underlying anger problems.A� And let us not lampoon such people crying out for help but try to reach out to them to avoid their anger boiling over and getting them into trouble with the law or resulting in the loss of life, either their own or some other victim.
Online Reporter