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We have now reached the third phase of our journey to discover The Formula of a South African! YOUR votes in the previous phase determined the ten most important behaviours which South Africans need to do more of, and the ten most important behaviours which we need to do less of, to be better South Africans.

Now we have reached probably the most fun part of the journey – it’s where you have a chance to get CREATIVE.

In this phase we need you to give us YOUR ideas for how we should represent each idea in The Formula as a work of art – so for instance how would you represent Crime? Perhaps a shady character in a ski mask? Maybe fingers in a till?

Tell us your ideas in the spaces below and let’s co-create The Formula of a South African!


Things South Africans should do more (enablers).

Accountable and responsible
  • a balance sheet with accounts on it
  • A pair of swans
  • A parent holding a child's hand as they cross the street
  • A Swiss watch - you can always rely on it
  • An abbacus, you can always count on it
  • Calling a taxi service if you are drunk
  • Someone pointing at themselves in the mirror
  • Someone wearing a safety belt (being responsible)
  • Taking responsibility for yourself and stop blaming apartheid
Your suggested depictions


Be the best/World class
  • A bar with a South African high jumper clearing it (we aim high/ raise the bar)
  • A horse in South African colours crossing the finish line first
  • Charl le Cloux winning gold at the olympics!
  • Elon Munsk with Space X
  • Felix Baumgartner jumping with a South African colours
  • New advancements in renewable energy, eg nuclear fusion
  • Oscar Pistorius beating able bodied athletes
  • Singing and dancing
  • Someone planting a South African flag on Mars
  • South African coloured Formula1 car taking a chequered flag
  • The Moses Mabida stadium representing the Soccer World Cup - we definitely delivered a World Class Event!
  • The SKA array
Your suggested depictions


Caring and supportive
  • A baby monkey riding on it's mother's back
  • A child on their father's shoulders
  • A family of meerkats
  • A mother sea otter holding her baby to her chest
  • holding hands
  • mother holding her child
  • The countries covering blanket of love and warmth
Your suggested depictions


Deliver on our promises
  • A marriage ring
  • A pizza delivery man delivering pizza boxes with "Promises" written on the side of the boxes
  • A stork
  • A stork delivering a baby
  • Houses
  • I like the one with the Pizza - Promises Pizza! :)
  • Someone handing a baby with a rainbow South African flag on their face to their proud parents (The promise of the rainbow nation delivered)
Your suggested depictions


Empowered people
  • A child tying their own shoelaces (doing it for themselves)
  • A picture of Popeye with the South African flag on his muscles
  • ABET education, no adult should be left behind
  • Lionesses or tigress showing their cubs how to hunt
  • Someone with a spark going between their hands
  • Superman in South African clothes (S) standing for South Africa man
Your suggested depictions


Health and wellness
  • A check list of health checks all ticked (HIV Test, Cholestrol Test, Blood Glucose Test, Blood Pressure Test etc)
  • A monkey cleaning lice off its baby
  • A plate of veggies and fruit
  • A treadmill
  • an exercise bicyle
  • Ke moja i am fine without drugs
  • Spider webs covering unused escalators along with a notice stating that they will be removed because they are not used
Your suggested depictions


Make a difference
  • Bees
  • Construction workers with SA flag coloured hard hats building a "Difference" sign
  • giving a homeless person your jacket
  • People of the community volunteering to build a school
  • Sing for change
  • someone building a - (difference) sign
  • Someone helping an old lady across the street
  • Teaching someone to fish
Your suggested depictions


Mutual respect
  • A buffalo with an oxpecker bird cleaning it
  • A crocodile getting it's teeth cleaned by a bird
  • a handshake
  • Learning basic greetings and phrases in all 11 official languages
  • live and let live
  • People of different races greeting each other with a wave
  • People tipping (doffing) their caps to each other
  • Understanding different
Your suggested depictions


Self Discipline
  • A child doing their homework
  • A dog with a piece of biltong on it's nose that isn't eating it until the owner says so
  • A guide dog
  • A hand holding up a green card (opposite of a red card in soccer)
  • A Japanese samurai
  • A karate chop breaking some boards
  • child headed household
  • Child making their bed in a tidy room
  • Someone cutting a tiny slice of chocolate cake
  • Zulu warriors in formation
Your suggested depictions


Strong sense of purpose
  • Nelson Mandela - he was in prison for 27 years but never gave up on achieving a free South Africa!
  • A compass which shows that you know where you are going
  • A Khoisan arrow - you know where it is going and it always flies straight and true to reach it's target
  • A sculpture of an eagle - can see far and knows exactly where it's going
  • A St Bernard
  • Frodo from the Lord of the Rings heading for mount doom
  • protest and strikes - shouting for our rights
  • Someone walking across hot coals to get to the other side
Your suggested depictions


Things South Africans should do less (disablers)

Abuse
  • A big fist
  • A child with a big dark shadow towering over it
  • A crying woman with blue marks all over her face
  • A dog in a tiny cage that it can't move in
  • A giant foot standing on a small person's back
  • A whip
  • Big kid bullying a smalller one
  • Speech bubble with a lot of symbols which stand for swear words
  • teachers abusing power over children
Your suggested depictions


Crime
  • A black gloved hand reaching out of your computer screen and typing on your keyboard
  • A bloodied handprint
  • A broken lock
  • A clearly counterfeit banknote - like a R100 note with R 90 written on it
  • A guy in a ski mask
  • A hand reaching into someone's pocket from behind (pickpocket)
  • A hijacker in a ski-mask pointing an AK47 at a vehicle
  • A washing machine with money in it (money laundering)
  • An overly protected wall (Electric fencing, barb wire, sensor beams and security cameras)
  • broken windows with blood
  • Crime scene tape
  • empty shell casings
  • Handcuffs
  • Prison bars
  • Razor wire on top of a high wall with a totsi climbing over it to get in
  • Taxi with bullet holes shot through it
Your suggested depictions


Failure to deal with issues
  • A band aid over a flat tyre
  • A band aid over a massive crack in a wall
  • A big big pothole with a tree growing out of it!!!
  • A car with flat tyres, broken windows and rusty paintwork (just being neglected, not dealing with issues)
  • A leaking tap
  • An ostrich with it's head in the sand
  • changing a street sign while there are massive potholes all over the road
  • forgetting those who really need reconciliation
  • Person wearing a blindfold
  • Someone sweeping dirt under a rug
Your suggested depictions


Greed and self-centered
  • 200 million rand on a house, and a shack across the rd
  • A big male lion eating an animal while the females and babies look on hungry having to wait their turn
  • A fat cat sitting on a chair
  • A fat person sitting on a throne with food all around and people serving him who are so thin that their ribs are showing
  • A magpie or ostrich
  • A train that is shaped like a gravy bowl (the gravy train it's all about me)
  • Big cuckoo standing on another chick's head to get to the food
  • RDP houses, converted into mansions
  • Smeagol from the Lord of the Rings with the ring in his hand saying "My Precious!"
Your suggested depictions


Laziness and apathy
  • A policeman asleep behind a desk
  • A shepard sleeping while a wolf eats his sheep
  • A sign saying "why bother, nothing is going to change"
  • A sloth
  • A tortoise passing a hare which is sleeping
  • Cat lying while a mouse eats its food
  • Dirty dishes piled up next to a sink
  • people lying around on deckchairs
  • People lying round a pool relaxing with lots of leaves floating in it
  • rubbish and papers lying around an empty dustbin because people are too lazy to put them in the bin
  • zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz - signs
Your suggested depictions


Negativity
  • A battery with two negative terminals - -
  • A cloud raining on someone's head
  • A dice with only 1's on it (I could never score a 6)
  • A frowning smiley face :(
  • A glass which is half empty
  • A sign saying no-thumbs up (like no parking sign with a thumb)
  • An empty fuel guage
  • Big dark cloud
  • its apartheid fault
  • Negative photograph image
Your suggested depictions


Poor communication
  • A broken telephone
  • Cellphone cut into two pieces
  • cellphone with a no-signal sign on it
  • Closed ears, closed eyes and an ipad in the way
  • Message in a bottle
  • Someone holding a loudspeaker the wrong way around
  • Someone sitting at a table speaking to someone else who has their back to them
  • Someone who is blind with dark glasses speaking to someone with earmuffs on
  • three monkeys - one with his hands over his eyes, another with his hands over his ears while a third has his hand over his mouth
Your suggested depictions


Racism and discrimination
  • A circle of zebras standing together and a horse standing on it's own - excluded
  • A couple of different colour straws in a hand with one colour sticking up higher than the others
  • A park bench with a white figure sitting far over to the one side and a black figure sitting far over to the other side with a sign above each saying whites only and blacks only
  • A short pencil in a pack full of tall pencils
  • groups of people standing on either side of a wall dividing them
  • Lions and hyienas
  • Someone giving one child lots of presents and another child a tiny present
  • White man and black man on corner beggin who gets the change?
Your suggested depictions


Resistant to change
  • A big rock
  • A man, looking unimpressed, standing under an umbrella, shielding him from a rain of coins (change) whilst other around him are grabbing at the pennies
  • A picture of the evolution of humans in reverse (not moving forwards)
  • A red chameleon on a green leaf
  • A tiny person trying to push an elephant
  • A very small person trying to push a big truck
  • Big oil tanker/ massive ship which takes miles to turn around/ change direction
  • Someone trying to hold the hands back on a clock
  • Someone trying to walk their dog but it doesn't want to go
  • Trying to tear through flags of current and past
Your suggested depictions


Unethical
  • A rotten apple
  • A shark's fin in the water
  • A snake
  • money changing hands under a table
  • People playing a game of cards and someone has a card up their sleeve
  • person looking over someones shoulder at their exam answers so you can cheat
  • Pinnochio (liar)
  • Scorpion which stabs you in the back
  • Snake in the grass
  • Someone taking dropping their marriage ring in their pocket in a bar
  • Someone with test crib cheats written on their hand writing an exam
  • Wardens having sex with inmates
Your suggested depictions





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