South Africans have reflected on how many people have died in the entertainment or arts and culture departments. Those people have been making a great contribution with their respective careers, but it was sad news when they were announced dead to the public domain. People have been wonderful about what is happening to the current year. But it is not only famous people who have lost their lives.

 

There are a lot of people who left their loved ones with friends with heavy hearts. The COVID-19 pandemic made people realize how often people lose their lives, and things have changed since that moment. That is where you get to see people attending and having a funeral on any day of the week. The person who made that one picture, it looks beautiful, and I like how it was chosen.

Someone like Rasta has been having a lot of influence, and people are waiting to see his paintings. But it has not been great, as many times he did not impress his followers, and they are all waiting to mock the painting he will reveal. It has become normal that this is how Rasta is painting, even though it was seen as a different person all the time. There was a time when Dingaan, who is on Muvhango, was not happy with another painting Rasta did.

It is always more said when a young person dies at a time it was not expected, because that person is expected to have more contribution and impact from what he has been doing. It does not mean that the death of an older person is not painful, but people tend to accept that he or she has lived life to the fullest extent possible. Imagine someone who had died before the age of 20; that is hard to admit.

It is something for which people have to be prepared all the time, even though you don’t know when it will occur. Someone who has not yet gone through the death experience of losing someone close to them would not have the same grief as someone who has lost a child or a parent. It is something you get to learn, becoming stronger to handle it better than before.