we are not lost, we are where we should be, period……

imagesYou can never be lost when you don’t know where you want to be in the first place.

It is supposed to be simple, but it is not. We just have to decide what kind of a country we want to live in and then decide what kind of leadership will take us there.
 
So if we have not done that, we cannot continue to complain and because where we are is where we should be. If you do not know what we represent as a country, what we stand for, maybe you should sit down.
I am not saying I know also (i am sitting down), but one could say, it is unfair of me to expect things to just happen just because nje.

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Again and then we wait for next year

It is that time of the year again where political points will be scored yet again, at least that will be the intention. I’ve seen some headlines indicating that the marks or the results have been adjusted up or something like that. What does this mean really? I don’t know.

Anyway, again we will have the same situation as the year before and the other years before where of course a few kids will make the headlines for having attained some distinctions. The is our yearly reality. After they have received them, they will start the journey into trying to get into institutions of higher learning, armed only with their results. For many, at this time it does not matter what they had planned to study because either they know they do not have the money to pay for such studies or their results are not good enough.

They will end up having enrolled for something they’ve heard of for the first time when they go to these institutions. Ok lets say many enroll, what we know for a fact is that by June many will have dropped out, many will have become something they never thought they would become because they want to study. But where are they? What becomes of these kids that their parents send off to study in foreign towns, hoping that they will come back one day to take care of them.

This is a painful reality and one that points to the many challenges that we face as a society. I do not have to mention that this is what BLACK kids face, it has black written all over it.

But then “BLACKS” need to do something about it. It is up to us to solve it. WE need to start with characterizing the problem and then get on with it.

We cannot continue like this. Lets talk about how we can change this.

I shared it

We recently had that situation where the Finance Minister was giving his speech and the President was in a deep state of thinking. He could not have been sleeping, i refuse to believe that. And no one can tell us how he must look when he is thinking. So there you have it, in case you were wondering, the President was not sleeping, we all close our eyes sometimes, even blinking takes the closing of the eyes for a second or less and we are never accused of sleeping.

Anyway whether he was sleeping or not, he is an old man, and a very busy old man, for one he is the President of one of the biggest economies in Africa, not sure if we are no1 or no 2 anymore. He is always on the road, and we all know that nature takes its course. Perhaps what we should do is ask, what was he busy with before the speech and we might discover that even some of us might have closed our eyes.

You know how we even close our eyes or sleep when we are driving, with our families because we are tired. Look, this is deadly, but nature has a way, and we sleep while driving. I am not saying the President was sleeping, all I am saying is that is it possible that he has been too busy to the extent that at that moment when he was sitting on that probably very comfortable chair in parliament his 70 plus year old body gave in. Also if you listen to Pravin you are bound to sleep a bit, it would be different if you were to listen to Mbalula because he has moments of bursts and all that, he screams a lot. Pravin’s voice though….

This is not why i am writing this though. After this parliament episode one of the online publications had a headline about the President sleeping, i forgot what the headline was but it was enough for me to just share without thinking twice. I did not read what they were saying in the article, i just shared it, nje.

After a while i just thought about it, and realized that, that was one of the dumbest things i have ever done. I have friends on Facebook who are not South African who i suspect are intelligence agents. What i also realized is that by sharing , i  added to the whole narrative that says blacks are incompetent and corrupt.

We have become tools in the whole matter. Yes the President has his flaws, we all do. In criticizing him and his friends we must always make sure that we do not hurt ourselves.

When he is no longer President, our country will still be there.

Ok Bye

The Effects of the Knowledge Economy

This is brilliantly written.

Sne Vilakazi's avatarSolving Unemployment

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So, it’s been about a month since I’ve posted anything. Some of you are probably wondering why. Well, the past few weeks have been hectic for me emotionally, spiritually and workwise.

Life has a tendency to throw curveballs at you, and if you’re not careful, you may get gusted away by the winds. There are violent but quiet storms that happen to many of us at some point in our lives. Outwardly, we look ok. Inwardly, we’re facing the fight of our lives. The good news is, they pass. And when they do you see much clearer, dust yourself off, and keep on walking.

I’m one of those people that life has forced to be self-employed. Inasmuch as it’s exciting and fulfilling, there are times when you feel like quitting. Being self employed is challenging because it is literally no work, no pay. And this is not to say that…

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Don’t judge me V 2

 

Over the past few months we have seen many young graduates standing by the roadside with boxes written their qualifications in an effort to raise some awareness about their challenges of unemployment. In essence, they are saying:

Dear Society, 

I have done everything that you asked of me. I avoided drugs, teenage pregnancy, alcohol in school and even though at times I had to eat corn flakes for supper I made it here, even though at times I had to wear those high heels to go to Cubana and be relevant just so that I can feel human, I made it here. All those sleepless nights in the computer lab and library, I am here.

But what is this; you never prepared me for this? All you said, Society was that if I do all this, I will be fine. And really towards the end of my studies, I could taste it, I already looked at cars that I would buy first, I already saw that fridge that I was going to buy for my mother, the shoes I want to wear. This was a few months ago.Mind you, I also have my sibblings who have been waiting for me so that their lives could change. But it is tougher now, I knock and knock no one opens, I am now classified as an unemployed graduate, and only now I see that those that were ahead of me, are the same, if they are not employed in retail shops, they either walk around with their envelopes responding to any call for leanership, flip some are even registering companies now and calling themselves entrepreneurs even though they never imagined themselves being that. 

So, know that when I stand by the street corner, I have tried it all, and actually, my whole life has been about trying.

Yours in Unemployment

This is the reality we live in now, and no one seems to be coming up with the answers, and once again this shows how divided we are and how some legacies still persist in society.

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“All hands on deck”

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“All Hands on Deck” is defined as an order to every member of a ship’s crew to report to the deck immediately, usually in an emergency.

What is happening in our country at the moment requires this. It is an “all hands on deck” moment which means that you stop whatever it is that you are doing, whatever seems important now, and do what is required. It is a phase so imperative that if you don’t do it, that which was and is important will not matter anymore.

Perhaps we shouldn’t look too far – many countries on the African continent went through the same stages and today their governments struggle to keep their countries functioning. Our story is not a new one, ours is probably going to be one of foolishness where in the face of so many examples, we will have become like many on the continent.

The thing about the “all hands on deck” command is that it is called by the Captain and everybody already knows what they need to do. In our country you can say that many are trying to give this instruction/order/recommendation but they are not recognised. They are not the Captains of the ship. Who then gives the “all hands on deck” command when the emergency that has to be dealt with is the fault of the Captain and even worse those that are close to him? That means you that you cannot even rely on the second in command.

Such is the story that is unfolding right in front of our eyes, where those that are about to sink with the ship are not aware of the “all hands on deck” command and don’t even know what they would have to do even if they did. The ship cannot be steered in any direction of safety because the bridge (control room) itself is occupied by those that are to blame for what is happening.

We need leadership, the kind that will break down the door to the bridge and take over, the kind that will do the unimaginable because the imaginable seems worse than the unimaginable. We are like a house owner watching their house burn. What’s even worse is that we are standing with buckets filled with water, but we are just to dumbfounded by the flames.

I think young people should lead us, the old people are old. And we all know what being old means.

“All hands on deck”. What does this mean? It means that we have reached that moment. Even if we realise now that we have reached that point,
whatever actions we take will not be about saving our country, it will just be about saving the little that’s left of it.

“All hands on deck”

Zuma must not fall……

If only i could add an emoticon, it would be that brown one that looks like a monkey that has its hands over its eyes. How fitting. But seriously now, and i think i am not alone here but of course i think different reasons would be sighted(hope this word is right, trying to be smart here, but i am sure you get the drift) for why we would not want Zuma to go. Look I am that Guy vele, the one who easily and always says he must go, yeah, and whenever there was something new like the Con Court decision, i become that guy that does not say anything but i know that many are saying, Given o boletse. So i become that Guy who is seen to be sangomic in nature and it is very nice to be right, you know what i mean.

But i am changing my mind, NO, i did not get a tender or i have not been promised anything (that emoticon again would be appropriate here). The thing is i have just landed on the word “narrative” this past week and also read somewhere that at the end of the day its all about “who’s story wins.”

Look at it this way, yes the President has admitted to some wrong doing and even apologised (emoticon inserted), but there is more to this especially if you take the time to look outside these issues. There is a clear narrative that black = corruption, or black = incompetence. The interesting thing about this now is that such thinking is made prominent by the very blacks. Give them twitter and data and you will see them going on and on with their racial suicide.

So, Russia is heavily sanctioned, Brazil which less than 2 years ago was doing very well economically is not doing well now, and then you have South Africa where we just speak of how the President must fall, and we sit there that this is our own thinking. We sit and wait for the media to tell us the agenda of the day, and then we follow with the #hashtags. I am not suggesting that what is going on is Ok, but i do think we need to always understand the forces at play. These forces have always been at play as revealed in the past two days, the involvement of the USA and the UK in the South African politics. So, could it be that all this is manufactured by the USA to try and distabilize BRICS, maybe………..I think it is.

This narrative does not put Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma as an incompetent human being, it actually says that anything that is run by black people does not work and they are corrupt. WE are all corrupt also. This may be true to some extent and we definitely have an excuse for such, but it is wrong for this message to be spread by the very same black people that are accused of such.

It is an unfortunate narrative, I think we need self love. We are a race incapable of loving itself and it is disgusting.

Jansen has fallen, and I am happy…..

G

what are we waiting for?

 

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The behaviour of the ANC and the way things are in general is getting worse. But we are also to blame, yes you, don’t look for someone else, you. Most of us who sit there and critisize are to blame for this and i am not for a second suggesting that we need to change who we vote for. Frankly i do think any political party will just mess things up more. It cannot continue like this where it is left to the politicians to decide our fate, well they have already and it is not good.  Continue reading “what are we waiting for?”

connecting the dots

there are many websites that we use to decide on the names to take for whatever we want to name. Some of us even go as far as google the names online when we are pregnant. This is how the naming process is, a name is permanent you don’t want to have a name that you will regret having tomorrow. Hell, most black people have names that they wish they could change now, names like Piet, etc (can’t think of other names, but you know what i mean).

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