While President Cyril Ramaphosa was counting on us being a nation ‘defined by hope and resilience’ to survive yet another year of ANC broken promises, bad ideas and ineptitude, I, dear readers, had my heart filled with real hope for our future in a ...
Last night, while some of you were watching the cacophony created by Julius Malema and the EFF while waiting for the President to give his State of the Nation Address, I attended a merit function at my son’s high school, Pro Arte Alphen Park, a government school of specialisation in Pretoria East.
The principal, Jacques Du Rand, spoke of his school’s 97% pass rate achieved not by promises, cheap talk or talent, but by hours and hours of study and practice, of teachers taking the time to help learners nurture creativity as a tool to resolve challenges, of learners pushing through despite the two years of Covid-disrupted learning.
While high marks are not the only signifier of success, these young women and men give me some hope that they will carve a future that is open to creative innovation and experimentation, that has heart and soul, a hard work ethic, compassion and commitment to change our country into what the ANC could never achieve with its clunky, collectivist group-speak, state-control dreams of a better place for all.
If clunky, 72-year-old comrade Pravin Gordhan and his clunky counterpart, 67-year-old comrade Gwede Mantashe are incapable of fixing what’s broken at Eskom and the other state-owned enterprises, or are incapable of brainstorming one good idea together, is the solution not to send them both off to enjoy their hard-earned ministerial pension packages so that more flexible, creative, skilled and pragmatic 21Our energy present and future is directly linked to a just energy transition, our...
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