Poverty is one of the major crisis this country is faced with and it has been existing for years and years, most of us grow up poor and that did not restrict us from chasing our dreams. South Africans have been spoiled a lot and most of young people in this country continue to add in the statistics of poverty.
The government has been giving away all these freebies and failing to educate the nation, to tell the truth a young person with real dreams and ambitions is on his/her own in this country. The government cares less about education but looks a lot at taking away what already exist from those who can maintain and cherish, the country's money (tax payers money) is spent on useless things and people do not care.
Young people commit crime, take drugs, beg on the street and most of them drop out of school and you ask why they say "Its because I'm poor" that excuse has already reached an expiry date, but they still use it. The truth is that 'young people of today have been fooled by the wrong people who pretend to be representing them, the likes of aboMalema. These people are capitalists who wanna enrich themselves in the name of the poor. Poverty is no more a factor that can stop you from being who you wanna be. I for on was born and raised in a disadvantaged family of six and we live in a shack built with mud, but that did not stop me from dreaming and still today i'm chasing my dream'.
This other day when i was at home (Dullstroom) i saw a child and he look familiar, i walk towards him, he was wearing his green school uniform and his shoes wear torn out, he was dragging them and his face was facing down, as i came near him he turn fast towards and away again. My heart start to feel down and my soul started to be sad. I asked him "What's your name?" with his face facing down he replied "I'm Thabo Johannes 'Surname', i'm 12 doing grade7 and i stay there" he pointed at his home. I did not know what to say because he was so clever and i could tell that he has dream but just because of his background all that can change. So i decided to start a campaign with my friends and we did, we called it a Dress a Child Campaign. We went around town t o donate clothing but the response was not good, yet we manage to get a few and we appreciated that because it made a diffference to those few.
We all need to understand that the people in government offices have a lot to deal and they can't deal with each and everyone of us. Feel for that child as you would feel for yours. The spirit of ubuntu has been forgotten in this country, the only time we get to use that is when the is a racial saga..My wish is that all these freebies can be cut of from people have not yet have babies in 2013 and what is this thing of money given to the unemployed. I think the is a plan to destroy SA.
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