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Celebrating our South African roots
I was born in a deeply divided South Africa. A country that was clear about the division – whites and non-whites. But if you were Chinese, you were ‘more white than black’ so you were an ‘honorary white’.
By Dawn Denton -
The Old days
In the ‘old days’ white people could walk into a shop using the front entrance and the black people had to use the back door. There were park benches for ‘blankes’ (whites) and ‘nie blankes’ (non-whites). There were bus shelters for blacks and different ones for whites. I remember on cold winter’s mornings seeing the blue ‘Putco’ buses bring black workers from the township of Soweto, driving through the white suburbs of Johannesburg. These buses were obviously not maintained as they were filthy and there was black smoke billowing out from underneath and behind. The back of the bus was pitch black. They were rammed to beyond capacity and the windows had fogged over. All along the bus windows where circles wiped out and black faces peering out at the ‘white’ world.
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I am constantly amazed at the incredible work that is being done in the NGO sector. We have 100,000 NGOs in South Africa the great majority of which are making a significant difference to our future. What politicians and journalists tell us is not all that is happening!
Please read this, if it doesn’t give you hope nothing will! Steuart Pennington
By Godfrey Tshehla – in my own words
My name is Godfrey Tshehla, and I come from a township called Tembisa in Gauteng. My academic life was going well, at least according to me, until one day in December of 2010 when it was time to fetch my school report. I remember my teacher asking for my surname, and when I was about to respond, she threw my school report at me. I was smiling until I picked it up and opened it – I felt like I was lost and dizzy. My heart was very painful. I had an average mark of 39% for all my subjects, 19% for mathematics and 24% for physical sciences. That was the worst academic performance I had ever had. I had failed Grade 10! Reflecting on that day I suspect my teacher’s anger, and disgust was at how I squandered my time given, the inherent potential she could see – I could have done so much better.
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JOHANNESBURG — On 25 July, Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator was one of only two organisations featured on stage at the Google NEXT 2018 conference in Silicon Valley.
Launching Data Solutions for Change,Google highlighted Harambee’s use of big data solutions to solve real-world challenges like youth unemployment. Google also invited the 20,000 participants at NEXT to join the Go Google Transform challenge that crowd sourced innovative solutions to scale Harambee’s impact.
Harambee CEO Maryana Iskander said, “Harambee’s platform is designed to break down the barriers that keep unemployed youth out of opportunity. We are successfully using some of the world’s leading technologies, including a Google Cloud platform that supports cutting-edge geolocation, data analytics and ‘algorithmic matching’, to move young people closer to work.”
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THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT
On the move
According to Statistics South Africa’s latest mid-year population estimates report, South Africa is estimated to receive a net immigration of 1.02 million people between 2016 and 2021.
The majority of international migrants are estimated to settle in Gauteng (48%), followed by the Western Cape (12%) and Limpopo (11%), while the least will settle in the Northern Cape (1%). (http://bit.ly/2OkVsTj, http://bit.ly/2Ad8pM3)
Source www.Eighty20.co.za
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