Reading through this article I was reminded of when I was around 6 years old and viewed my Dad cycling off to his job as a blaster in a mine near Randfontein in the old Transvaal in South Africa where I grew up. With him he took his tin of sandwiches and screw top beer bottle containg coffee.
We were not rich or famous by any means and my mom never went to work until I was around 10 years old so we had no car and no refrigerator and had an old coal stove in the kitchen which kept the municipal house we lived in, warm.
What we did have though was education and that is the building block of success!
Sadly this education was not offered to all because of the apartheid laws but this changed when Mr Mandela came along and instead of politicians embracing the change whole heartedly they seem to have focused mainly on lining their own pockets!
Hopefully with the help of Mr Mashaba..assuming he is trustworthy..things will radically change for the better!! That he steps into Mr Mandela's shoes..as it were!!
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