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It’s me teaching my daughter not to trust boys

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Anytime you feel like giving up, come back to this post!!

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Can we all agree that this is the video of the month 🤣 its the head movement for me, typical igbo girl dance move 🤣

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Speak these 5 affirmations every morning ✨

[Lunga @LungaMrhetjha]

South Africa does NOT have a skills problem. It has a SYSTEMS problem. Let me explain.

Every time we discuss inequality and its effects on society, there are some who will say "but there’s a skills mismatch. That's why unemployment is so high."

This is not factual. We have unemployed doctors, teachers, and engineers sitting at home right now while clinics continue to collapse, classrooms overflow and infrastructure fails. That’s not a mismatch. That’s system failure and someone is benefiting from this whole inefficiency and misallocation of resources.

Categorical thinking asks "who is poor?" "who is unemployed?" "who is excluded?" "who is corrupt?"

Don't get me wrong. These are important, pertinent questions but unfortunately they are incomplete. They describe outcomes, not mechanisms.

To fully understand inequality in South Africa, we need systems thinking.

Systems thinking forces us to ask what machinery keeps producing the same outcomes? Why do skills exist alongside unmet social needs? Why does unemployment persist even where demand is obvious?

Let's take healthcare, for example. Hospitals are overcrowded, while doctors and nurses are unemployed. Clearly, the problem here is not training. It is austerity that had led to the freezing of recruitment, headcount ceilings and unfunded posts. Clinics are short-staffed by design, not accident.

The system prefers community service doctors, locums and paying overtime instead of hiring more professionals on a permanent basis. This makes business sense for those who are chasing profit margins because permanent staff are treated as a cost, not productive capacity.
People literally while posts sit frozen.

It is the same modus operandi even when it comes to education. There are hundreds if not thousands of unemployed teachers while classrooms are overcrowded.
This proves yet again that we're not dealing with a skills problem here, but rather rigid post-provisioning norms. Large classes are a budget strategy, not a coincidence.

Teachers sit unemployed while schools lack staff because posts are rationed and placement incentives don’t exist. This is deployment failure, not teacher failure.

It is a disgrace that engineers are sitting unemployed at home while infrastructure continuously decays all around us. Roads, water system and electrical infrastructure are collapsing and/or require constant maintenance due to a lack in executable project pipelines.

Officials avoid making decisions due to Auditor-General risk, fears of litigation and also being held personally liable for any failures that might occur. The safest decision becomes no decision. Infrastructure collapses not from lack of skill, but from administrative paralysis.

Across healthcare, education, and infrastructure, the pattern is the same. Skills exist, demand is visibly there, along with social needs for these things. What fails is the system that connects them.

It is wrong to call the problem a skills mismatch. Doing so attributes the blame to the individuals in society and justifies austerity, while hiding state capacity failure. Such an approach avoids the heart of the problem. It’s not neutral. It’s ideological.

South Africa’s crisis is not a shortage of ability (we have plenty of that). What we are witnessing here is a failure to deploy the ability we already have. When skills sit idle in an environment where social needs are not met, the result is often institutional dysfunction.

If we are serious about reducing inequality, then we must think differently about budgeting, hiring and execution. We already have trained personnel. The system needs to be fixed from inside out so that inequality does not reproduce

[Bhanqo @ngxikimane]

@VillageGuluva Nandi reminded me this documentary by Dr Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu , Countering Conspiracy against black boys 1987

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Nandi Madida speaks about the challenges black SA men faces and how social media intensifies the pressures by fueling unrealistic expectations of wealth and success.

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@VillageGuluva @epitomechancer Lol that's why they end up leave cz most gents tend not to be their self and it bores this buddies big time

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

Always visualize before going to sleep‼️‼️

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

History repeat, repeat itself. America of a way of repeating history.. we like to kidnap presidents get rid of Prime Minister that we do not like. It has nothing to do with civil rights and human rights..

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When God want to make man powerful…

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Marumo Gallants narrating the story this morning…

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@elonmusk “One day you’ll own the world… and feel emptier than when you had nothing but dreams.