Education the first step out of poverty

The can be no doubt that the forever sky-rocketing unemployment crisis remains one of the biggest challenges the country faces today.

It makes our lives difficult, stagnant, impossible, miserable, as being unemployed makes one feel stupid, useless, inferior, inadequate and incomplete.

But what is it that we are doing to change and improve our not so good, dire situation in order to sustain ourselves and survive?

The first step as parents is to encourage kids to go to school and emphasise the essentiality of education.

This is the only tool that can be used to break the cycle of poverty in our black communities. Education is the key fundamental aspect to success.

Complaining about a situation and not doing something about it is useless and it is like pouring water on a duck’s back if not teaching a fish how to swim or bragging about karate to the Japanese.

Not that l always look for mistakes, but having been in different management positions, I can identify a mistake. The biggest mistake we make as parents is not teaching kids the difference between good and bad.

Go to any township or informal settlement, you will find the whole family – gogo, mzukulu, malume and ngane – at a shebeen in the wee hours instead of being at school or looking for employment or organising CVS and work contacts.

The blame game and self pity does not pay bills.

Make a move as one move is better than no move at all.

Kwamhlanga