People should all be free to create their own success without being robbed of it.

The people of South Africa are not free.

While city dwellers have to live behind bars and security systems, there is no freedom.

While robbers, rapists and murderers rule the country, there is no freedom.

South Africa merely swapped the bondage of Apartheid for the bondage of crime, corruption and violence.

For something to heal there should first be the recognition of the problem.

While we live in a make-believe bubble of peace, we will never experience freedom.

We still need to fight for freedom.

We need to fight crime, corruption and violence, while we envisage the type of future we want.

We need to have a true vision what freedom is and work towards it.

If we cannot put strong boundaries around our freedom-vision where there are equal opportunities and peace for all people, then we cannot create it.

We cannot create something that we cannot envisage.

Freedom must have the same meaning for all people; otherwise, we shatter the combined effort.

South Africa should strive for that rainbow that signals the end of all bondage.

The end of the bondage of fear,

The end of the bondage of poverty and

The end of the bondage of limitation.

We should all be free to create our own success without being robbed of it.

Modern Tribal Africa

Tribal Africans are born soldiers (impis), being ruled by royal families.   

Africa still has to learn the laws of unity and sharing with all tribes.

Many African rulers recognize peace as something to fight for, but they use the old methods of fighting against a group of people (an enemy), instead of fighting the element of violence and unrest.

The real enemy is not the successful white South Africans.   The real enemy to fight is that what counteracts prosperity for all people.

The real enemy is an attitude of crime, corruption violence and armed robberies.

While there are guns in the hands of the public, there will always be those who feel powerful behind it.   Trigger happy cowards.

Some African politicians search past history, to find old scores to settle, in order to create an enemy. 
Conquering an enemy was the way of the past.
Some politicians feel only powerful when they can function in an atmosphere of racial hatred.   
Without an enemy, they have no governing skill.

Africa needs to move from using physical strength through war and cunning tactics in order to secure power.
The way to peace and prosperity is to developing mental strength to grow a strong economy that can overcome poverty.

African politicians need to develop real governing skills.   They need to learn how to empower all races and get them to work together.

African leaders need to acquire the tools to build the rainbow continent.

A visualization to change the world:

 Visualize that all children receive an education that will empower them to develop their best abilities.   Do this visualization regularly as there are so many children that are not receiving the right education education to meet their individual needs.   Please pass this message on.

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FREE EDUCATION ON A ZERO BUDGET
SHORTAGE OF SCHOOLS
THE UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNOCKS
ONE BOOK PER CHILD NOT ENOUGH
TV TO HEAL A NATION
DO NOT LOOK BACK GOING FORWARD
A VISUALIZATION OR PRAYER TO CHANGE THE WORLD
http:   SEARCH FOR SCHOOLS LABEL
A DELAYED SUCCESS IS BETTER THAN A TOTAL Failure
PONDER ON THESE THOUGHTS
CHILDREN SHOULD BE FREE TO CARVE THEIR DESTINIES
HEAL TE INNER CHILD OF AFRICA
A COUNTRY IN DEBT IS A ROAD TO SLAVERY
CHILDREN SHOULD BE FREE TO CREATE THEIR DESTINIES
2015 A YEAR FOR JUDGEMENT
DO NOT DIE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, LIVE IT

A man's house is his castle

In upmarket neighborhoods, small families experience the need to expand their homes.

Politicians own multiple dwellings to cater for their needs. Yet in the townships people are being supplied with one and two roomed houses to cater for large and sometimes extended families.

Perhaps it is time to plan around people’s needs and customs when building low cost houses in townships. We know that six kids in a two roomed dwelling will eventually result in backyard extensions.

Since rural Africans normally live in groups and have the extended families around them and it is not unusual for colored families to have the grandparents rearing the children while the parents go out to work, we should plan building-developments around these customs.

Homes should not be built and designed according to names on a list but for real families with needs.

Healthy community and family customs should not have to exchanged for a roof over the head.

• Design houses so that it will be strong enough to accommodate an upstairs extension.
  
• Make cost price building materials available to low income families who want to extend their homes.
  
• Set affordable guidelines as to the quality of building extensions, even in the townships.
• Use green building options and the use of solar and wind energy.
• Perhaps roof gardens could be considered to provide outdoor privacy.
• All township developments should have sports fields and instructors to instruct the children how to play the games. (Rugby, tennis, soccer and netball or hockey) . This will encourage the children not to resort to crime, gang violence and partake in the use of drugs due to boredom.
  
• Each township should have a

1. school,
   
2. sports club and a
3. a public library,
   
4. community hall and
   
5. employment and adult skills developer and bureau which house also the
   
6. local social welfare planner,
7. Medical center,
   
8. Animal clinic and a
   
9. play park for the children.
   

• Family members can be clustered together so that they can support each other.
• Encourage homes of family members to be joined in order to create bigger living areas.
• Each housing cluster can be built around a garden for a communal living environment.
• Solar powered boreholes for the irrigation of the gardens.
• An incentive could be provided by allocating a prize to the best-run garden. It could be in the form of a rate reduction for the month or something that will make the living conditions better for the group – a few chickens or something.
• Encourage the community to police their public resources - the school, community hall, sports fields, play parks and library.
  

Ex Unitate Vires

Educational needs in South Africa and other third world countries

The pavement baby

The baby in the photograph, (R), was born on the streets. His parents have no home and is living on the pavement in a Cape Town suburb.

If this baby survives to grow to school going age; what will his chances be of receiving the kind of education that will empower him to become the best he can be; or at least learn right from wrong?

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FREE EDUCATION ON A ZERO BUDGET
SHORTAGE OF SCHOOLS
THE UNIVERSITY OF HARD KNOCKS
ONE BOOK PER CHILD NOT ENOUGH
TV TO HEAL A NATION
DO NOT LOOK BACK GOING FORWARD
A VISUALIZATION OR PRAYER TO CHANGE THE WORLD
http:   SEARCH FOR SCHOOLS LABEL
A DELAYED SUCCESS IS BETTER THAN A TOTAL Failure
PONDER ON THESE THOUGHTS
CHILDREN SHOULD BE FREE TO CARVE THEIR DESTINIES
HEAL TE INNER CHILD OF AFRICA
A COUNTRY IN DEBT IS A ROAD TO SLAVERY
CHILDREN SHOULD BE FREE TO CREATE THEIR DESTINIES
2015 A YEAR FOR JUDGEMENT
DO NOT DIE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM, LIVE IT
 
1 Education Week

2 1 GOAL Will Host Summit for Education in Cape Town on July 7, 2010

3 Thoughts on how to meet the educational need

The real culprit is the system

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South Africa is faced with a major problem that stemmed from her policy to embrace refugees from other impoverished African countries, while the majority of South Africans live under the bread line. The latest price hikes just compounded the problem, leading to anger, frustration, and Xenophobia.

The South Africans blame illegal and legal immigrants of taking jobs away from them. This is in essence true.

One can hardly blame them from evicting these people from their communities.

The real culprit is a system that allowed this to happen and giving poor native South Africans no hope of ever getting out of poverty.

The latest price hikes was the cherry on the cake --. The straw that broke the camel’s back.

NEPAD 228

6 June 2008

Issue 228

www.nepad.org

01 "Green Revolution" aims to double Africa's rice production in the next 10 years

02 Food crisis is hurting but Africa reacts swiftly through CAADP

03 Scaling up the action on land management and desertification

04 African Ministers to discuss NEPAD Environment Plan

05 Prof. represents South Africa on the NEPAD Steering Committee

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Nature vurtually vurture

The South African expert opinion believes that it is kinder to shoot more elephants to decrease their population.

Since South African children only need a 30% pass rate for maths at school, one can question any expert opinion. We are growing a generation who cannot add two and two together.

Africa is squeezing its national heritage, its jungle inhabitants, out to make way for the human invasion. Like cockroaches, humans inhabit any little crevice of natural habitat. Armed with modern weapons of war, wildlife doesn't stand a chance. If a wild animal manages to get the upper hand and kill its hunter, then the villagers use it as an excuse for a free for all killing spree.

One day there may be more wildlife in populated countries like England and Holland than there will be in Africa.

What will be left when all the fauna, flora and wildlife are gone: An African Chinese culture run by darker skinned people and poverty, or will it be a culture like the old pre war, behind the iron curtain, communist Russian society? Perhaps it will be like a London society with a tin-roofed squatter-camp backdrop?

The only way for Africa to retain its identity is to care for its natural resources and the diverse cultures of its people.

When the jungles of Africa are gone and when the last lion-king is imprisoned behind bars, while a few tusk less elephants walk around aimlessly looking for a tree while watching the hornless buffalo sunbathes in the dry river bead, visitors to Africa will be entertained in cinemas where they can view holographic make believe displays of wildlife in a jungle environment.

They will not even have to commute to Africa for their African experience.

To many Westerners, Africa is a place of disease, poverty, genocide, internal struggles and poor economic strategies. Many Africans cast their eyes far afield for solutions to their problems. The empowerment of the African people lies here on African soil. Not in Europe, China or Russia. The dignity of the African lies hand in hand with his relationship with the environment.

Africa should remain proudly African. Africa has a unique global roll to preserve itself. Africa has to preserve its jungles and it's inhabitants - human and animal. Africa has to preserve its natural pharmacy. African has to remind humanity where it originated.

Africa is the mirror of the past and a vision of the future. Africa is Africa -- and so it should remain.

One day nature may to be more valuable than money. When the food of the world dries up, and people realize they can not eat money, the world may turn to Africa to find solutions for sustainable living.

Ex Unitate Vires

A new white African tribal custom to make managers out of boys

Racial empowerment laws in South Africa leave fewer opportunities in the job market for white male school leavers.

White male children especially will find it difficult to get good jobs. They have to wait for the selection to sift through potential employees among firstly

black women then,

black men,

then coloured women,

coloured men and lastly

white women before white boys can be considered for a job in a major South African company.

Companies are being presurised to apply these laws.

The same racial sifting will be repeated when promotions are to be considered

Educate White children to become managers from the start

White children need to be empowered to become managers and run their own companies before they leave school.

White South African parents may need to find solutions for the white male unemployment problem.

Giving your child a good education is no longer good enough for South African whites.

Perhaps we should look at black tribal customs, where the boys go into the bush to become men, for new solutions to the present white employment problem.

White boys could attend a finishing school year to become managers and self empowered as a new white tribal custom. (Perhaps in the overseas work market instead of the bush)

One cannot fight against the odds. While black people carry bleeding psychological wounds from past injustices, whites need to allow them the space to heal without sinking into poverty and despair.

Struggle makes one strong and “Boer maak 'n plan” There must be a peaceful solution. A win-win solution for all races. We cannot force racial equality in the job market but we must find a working solution.

Perhaps South Africans living overseas can help securing the futures of the boys from their fellow countrymen.

Help white South African boys to keep their heads above the water. (figuratively speaking)

no rich, no poor, no high, no low,

The foreword of the book THE MAN by IRVING WALLACE reads as follow:

One of the author's prized possessions is an original autographed manuscript, written firmly with pen on cheap ruled paper, signed by a former Negro slave who became a great reformer, lecturer, writer, adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, United States Minister to Haiti, and candidate for Vice-President of the United States on the Equal Rights Party ticket in 1872. The manuscript reads as follows:

In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny for all.
A Government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Washington D.C. Oct. 20. 1883

Council of the Elders

Critical role for metrology

“Africa was the only remaining continent not fully represented in the international measurement community and the establishment of AFRIMETS will synergise the measurement activities of the different economic groupings in Africa”, said Dr. Wynand Louw, newly appointed chairman of AFRIMETS.

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WORLD GREED 28-6-2007

28-6-2007

WORLD GREED

One can say that greed is one of the most destructive forces in the world today.

There is enough money to ensure a comfortable living for every sentient being on the planet.

With so much money pouring into Africa all Africans should have the knowledge and tools to have a self-sustainable living.

The elements that paralyze the efforts of first world countries to have the desired "make poverty history' effect in Africa are among other:

• The Red tape of outdated rules and laws prevent proper distribution of funds and investment opportunities in Africa.
• Unskilled or immature or greedy decision makers.
• Corruption and violence.
• War and anarchy.
• There is unwillingness among people in power to take responsibility of their own actions.
• There is a tendency to blame and punish past injustices instead utilizing current resources to create solutions for the future.
• We have many poor role models among teachers, politicians and those in power.
• Too many Africans are in "victim mode".
• A tendency to widen the gap between the higher and lower classes because of the greed of those in control of financial distribution and the population at large.
• Another problem is the crime that is out of hand, criminal injustice and a poor social structure.
• Drugs and drug abuse destroys the lives of too many Africans
• A tendency of African leaders to be global beggars and expects from the first world standards that they are unable to implement in their own countries.
• Military rule.
• Etc. Etc.

Money alone will not permanently alleviate poverty.

Education and healing at all levels of the African society will be needed as well as positive role models from first world countries.

Africans need to learn to be accountable for their promises. The money donors should insist on that. Leaders should mirror their expectations. They are not only there to make fancy speeches while globe trotting

Shortcomings that are recognized openly in Africa are often active behind the scenes in the first world.

Where Africans may be master beggars and victims; First world leaders may be master manipulators and deceivers.

Politicians empower themselves

"You can fool some of the people some of the time
But you can not fool all of the people all of the time" - popular saying

Many African (and foreign) politicians broaden the gap between rich and poor due to their own greed.



Are policies of narrowing the gap between rich and poor only empty words to score political mileage or spur foreign investment; or is it a mere smoke screen to hide racial employment laws or land invasion practises? Perhaps politicians are just liars or poor mathematicians?


The truth of the above assumption is revealed when one consider the recent policies surrounding employment laws and a country's history of land invasion management and that of the lives (or deaths) of those who occupied the land in question.


One can also compare the amount of money top management spent on themselves compared to their poverty alleviation measures.


How can any leader advocate narrowing the gap between rich and poor when they give themselves a more than a fifty percent wage increase while offering the workers less then 10 percent.

If they are serious about narrowing the gap they should give themselves a seven percent wage increase and offer the workers at the lower scale fifty percent.



Should the leaders of countries not rule by example?

Starving African feeds the glut of the world

Why should the best local food be exported while inferior produce is dumped on the African market. Why should Africans follow the first world trend? Do we not also deserve the best?

Why export food at all while 75% of Africans struggle to put decent food on the table?

Why should Africa need import food if we have enough to export?

The science for global intelligent farming exists. If all peaceful countries in Africa unite to create an African market according to the continent's needs, it would not be necessary for people to flog to the most southern point of Africa in a hope to escape starvation.

It is now the time for survival tactics while the rest of the world is still focused on making poverty a history.
Africa will have to prove that they are not merely global beggars but can and will become self sustainable.

This cycle of pouring investment into Africa will not last forever. We need to "
strike while the world's pockets are open"

Africa can not afford to wait for corrupt or war-torn African countries to restore harmony and peace. The countries who are ready to make poverty a history need to unite now to create global poverty rescue strategies.