HERITAGE DAY, SOUTH AFRICA (out with the old, in with ???) (apologies for the springbok-cross-meerkat and the fragmented pneumatic drill)

... on 24 September each year, South Africans celebrate Heritage Day (known as 'braai day' in some circles, 'braai' being South African speak for BBQ) ... The somewhat idealistic concept underpinning this public holiday is that South Africans should use it to 'celebrate their culture and the diversity and traditions, in the wider context of a nation that belongs to all its people' (Wikipedia). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Day_(South_Africa) ↗️

This image depicts fire in the context of Parliament's now completely gutted National Assembly, where construction workers with pneumatic drills are busy removing the heart of the building to leave a shell on which to create something new (precisely what remains to be seen).

A homeless man set fire to the building in January 2022 (long sad story) ... Only South Africans will understand what we're attempting to portray here (the country is literally falling apart and nobody knows quite how to stop the rot) ...