When I grew up we used to recite a poem at primary school that goes like this: "All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all." The words are by Cecil Frances Alexander in 1848.
To put them in the South African context it would be correct to say: "It's all dark and gloomy in our land of plenty, this cuts across all spectra of life, the economy, politics and socially."..
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