The Internal Monologue

The Story of Little Mabuthu - Real  Empowerment Little Mabuthu refers to a young African boy I regard as a warrior. Actually, he is a warrior, given his attitude towards life. He conquers everything on his path. Yet, when you look through his eyes, you see his soul, you feel the humility of your ancestors, and you see endless future possibilities of greatness. An inquisitive young boy with energy that needs to be directed to do good. The real empowerment of any child (Black, white, yellow, green, purple, but here I talk about black Africans from my lived experience) is magnitudes better than BBEEE. Empowerment, according to the Cambridge English dictionary, " is the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want or to control what happens to you ." When you can't control what happens to you, the system hoses you down, and the longer this happens, the more unescapable it gets. Nowadays, it does not take a village to raise a child since we no longer live in small ...

Maybe This Might Work - Family and Mastery So far, I don't see us doing anything that works, maybe I'm wrong, but hear me out. A nation is an abstract view of a people living within certain borders. What are a nation and a nation-state? The Cambridge Dictionary states, " A country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, traditions, etc. " And a nation-state is a state constituted of people who share almost everything from race, language, culture, etc. Given these definitions, South Africa is a nation, not a nation-state. And a set of black individuals does not necessarily make a black nation.  Forget the government  is not to say you don't have some responsibilities to fellow citizens or don't take the government's policy positions serious. It's to say, problem-solving begins at home. Like others say that "Charity begins at home". Otherwise, if it starts elsewhere, it'...

It's Not Suitable For Thinking Humans Our education system is so funny that people who got A+ and some 100% for grade 12 Mathematics did so without knowing the meaning of Algebra or other concepts. I'm afraid that if you were to ask the top Math student from the class of 2021, he/she may not know the answer or at least explain what is Algebra in layman's terms. Laymen, in this case, are just like the "intelligent men". So is practising Maths the best method to learn it? Robotic education! I think that's how we are being educated. That is, fill in the damn checklist with what I told you. I define robotic education as a method of teaching individuals that fosters process conformity, repetitive work, and reduced thinking due to a lack of incentives. This education style has a lot of Taylorism in it. It was meant for people to get the work/job done, not to think, innovate, discover, or invent. Just like machines/robots are programmed, maybe that's why the qual...