Measuring your progress against others is a sure fire path to constant disappointment. Measure your progress against where you started, where you’ve been, where you were yesterday. It’s far more rewarding and informative to evaluate yourself against yourself.
Having skill or expertise in one area rarely qualifies as expertise in all platforms. Stay curious and keep an open mind. There can always be something to learn.
After the CHEAP celebrations by the ANC–DA GNU, a terrifying and painful reality will set in.
Over 656 000 learners passed Matric.
Over 345 000 of them qualify for University Admission.
Yet, DHET has less than 200 000 spaces across Universities and TVET Colleges for First-Time Entering Students.
Meaning, HALF A MILLION young people will be pushed into the ranks of the NEET Youth (Not in Employment, Education, or Training).
Already, close to 4 MILLION young people are trapped in the NEET category.
If public funds were not being STOLEN from SETAs, CETs, NSF, and related skills programs, these learners could ALL be absorbed into Post-School Education, which extends beyond Universities and TVET Colleges.
#MatricResults2025
A recognition that crowns years of hard work, success, and unforgettable moments.
My gratitude goes to my family, my teammates, and everyone who works with me every day, on and off the field. Your trust, dedication, and support make me stronger and allow me to grow.
Thank you to all the Moroccan people for always standing behind me.
I hope this moment inspires every child in our country and across our continent to believe in their dreams and fight for them.
Today, in 1977 they killed Steve Biko, cowards of the apartheid system, because they hated his mind. He was a proud black man, with an independent mind… he had written in one of is essays, that "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Let us ask, where is your mind? For freedom is first and foremost this insistence to be responsible for our mind. To insist on our ideas. Insist on thinking for ourselves. Africa, where is your mind?
When our leaders, in order to resolve African conflicts, chose to travel to Doha, under Trump tutelage, one must ask, where is our mind? When Africa is so rich a continent with mineral resources for the industrial technologies that define the entirety of modernity, and yet remains trapped in underdevelopment, disease and poverty, we must ask, where is our mind? What our there in Africa, tell us, that we have disarticulated our minds from the tentacles of the oppressor? Where we cannot think without the tutelage of a white man?
When a leader whose community suffered lack of water, sanitation, and electricity takes this community’s money for self enrichment… we must ask, where is our mind? When political leaders cohabit, fraternise and collaborate with criminal and gangster cartels to loot the state, kill whistle blowers and bribe judges, we must ask, where is our mind? What kind of people are these, whose entire being is enslaved by greed, selfishness, conspicuous consumerism, and egotistical insatiable desire for fame… where is their mind? When they think so desperately through their stomachs?
It is with this background that Steve’s injection remains ever more relevant today, that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. This already means the oppressor no longer needs physical violence to subjugate you, no. You conduct yourself in the internet of the oppressors’ superiority! That is what signifies the fact that your mind is in their hands, and not yours.
Pakistanis, Somalians & Ethiopians opened their shops at 6am this morning & have been making money.
Many South Africans woke up from being drunk at 12pm.
Others had 4hrs of church today, from 7am.
Change your habits. Change your circumstances. Change your life.