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nancial feed at times statement with because no sense this of dear shame reader or humiliatio­n. is your report card when These you roles leave have school. been So too de- pending rubbish on and the they outcome have been your loan applicatio­n, your banker will have graded you and deter- mined whether you have passed or failed in life. Do not despair if you fail, failure is part of the process of success, all you have to do, just as you could have done in your days in school, is work hard to move yourself from prolonged a failing by position the fact to that a pass- we ing have position relegated in life, ourselves that’s it! We to all worshippin­g are capable those of living this, but on the you must bright be side up of to life. the task of mov- ing Let from us not a failing be like position the Asian into a man passing I mentioned position. It earlier is possible, who but can even it is alter not necessaril­y features in easy. or- What der to you look may like start a Caucasian with is sim- su- ply per a hero. change Let in us direction. also not be Oliver like Holmes said: ‘ The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.’

So dear reader, take a min- ute to think about your life, and go back to the standard format in which you received your re- port card back when you were in school (my sincere apolo- gies to those readers still going through a first time education). If you were given a report card in life today, would you fail or would you pass? If you would pass, I would suggest you keep up the good work. On the other hand if you would fail, I would recommend that you get to the root cause of your failure, work your socks off until you get into the bracket of those passing. We all have that innate and special ability to succeed at anything. The problem often is we do not unlock the potential. For me, the saddest situation is one where a person with so much potential lets it all go to waste; we surely ought to be better than that. How can one choose to stand on a street corner beg- ging Michael for hand-outs Jackson that when went one out is able of his bodied way to and ‘become’ more a impor- white tantly man. has a brain?!

Let us instead emulate the Chinese and say whatever the pace setters can do, we can also do. If the pace setters make an aeroplane, we will also make an aeroplane.

If the pace setters make a global search engine, we will also produce someone from UNZA or ZCAS that will make a global search engine.

My sincere apologies to any- body that finds this article to be offensive as it directly compares races; it is not my intention to be offensive, I am simply stating things as I see and believe.

But more than anything else I am saying a big NO to the victo- ry of colonialis­m.

I once heard a knowledgea­ble individual say that anybody can come up with a brilliant idea or indeed the best business proposal in the

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