“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have one idea”

I believe in this saying 100%, imagine if every person in the world only had one idea.....nothing would ever happen, sometimes our plans don’t go according our plans which is why it is always vital that one have plan A, plan B, and a backup for these.

An idea is only an idea, but it only becomes effective when it is implemented. Everything that we have today they all began with just an idea, those ideas’ had back up plans...It took someone with the initiative and the drive to make something happen.

It is important that we young people of Africa come up with our own ideas and their back up plans, because one cannot depend on one plan, in case that plan doesn’t go right so that we have something to fall back on.

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Wathinta abafazi wathinta imbokodo...........

A saying that is used almost each and every day, but it is used mostly during August, we all know the reason for this.  This is the time of women like Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, and Sophie Williams and Albertina Sisulu. These are the women who were very vocal, and who were leading thousands of women who took in their own that something had to be done regarding the pass laws against women.  Deliver petition to JG Strijdom, while embarking on this march they were singing a song.... “Wathinta abafazi wathint’imbokdo.... uzokufa”

However this was not the only march that women embarked on, they also went to the union buildings and stood there quietly for one hour and thirty minutes, this just shows determination and courage. One thing we must remember that these were working women, some were carrying children in their backs and some even took their white employers children with.

Dora Tamana, a member of the ANC Women’s League and a founding member of the Federation of South African Women, declared:

“We, women, will never carry these passes. This is something that touches my heart. I appeal to you young Africans to come forward and fight. These passes make the road even narrower for us. We have seen unemployment, lack of accommodation and families broken because of passes. We have seen it with our men. Who will look after our children when we go to jail for a small technical offence -- not having a pass?”

Translation: “You strike a woman, you strike a rock.........you die”

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http://www.sahistory.org.za/topic/1956-womens-march-pretoria-9-august

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Have you figured out the second head fake?

I don’t even know what to write about........ I guess this topic require a lot of thinking which is something that I don’t like to do. But this is me... putting on my thinking cap. I don’t think there is something called a second head, but then again there might be something like that of course I have never seen or heard of a person with a person with a head fake.

“It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way ... the dreams will come to you. Did you figure out the second head fake? The talk's not for you. It's for my kids.” – Randy Pausch.

But my own understanding of the topic is that when a person has a second head fake is when they make a decision and change it without any notice. Or they say one thing to me and say a completely different thing to the next person...well I consider that person to be two faced.

Soweto Derby

One of the reason I’m proud to be a South African is our diversity and with our diversity comes a rainbow nation this became clear during the 2010 fifa world cup, it is the same when the two giant of Soweto comes head to head. Whenever these two play against each other the whole country comes to a stand still and it becomes divided in two sides one for Orlando Pirates, the other for Kaizer Chiefs.

We know that Orlando Pirate are raining champs of the league and they are also champs of the Carling Black Label challenge, Saturday they will be hoping to keep the trophy like they did last year, “so we can be able to rub it in Kaizer Chiefs fans”

These two teams have been rivals forever and its clear that I am a buccaneer Orlando Pirates fan, and it is our pledge that where Orlando Pirates is we will be no matter what the outcome of the we will remain ‘happy people, city robbers’ . There  is only one thing left to say may the best team win.

Remember whether you are a Pirate or a Chiefs we are all South African and we are one..............It does not matter because we are all Africans.  “Bhakajuju ka juju is here to stay”

And we remain the undefeated champs….

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I am

A child, sister, aunt, grandchild, cousin, friend  and most of all a South African. I like to say everyone has their own uniqueness, we are different in our own special kind of way. I know I’m different than the next person because no matter how hard they try to impersonate me they will never be the real deal.

Being able to think using my head and not my heart no matter what the situation, being able to smile or laugh even though its hard,  free spirited, don’t care what people say about me. These are just some few words that describes what kind of person I am, of course not to mention that I’m very short tempered even some of my family members don’t understand when i shout at them for nothing, but that is me.

I will not be influenced by others, I make up my own mind because i believe that in South Africa we have the freedom to use our own initiative and think for ourselves.  So what people around me say or do does not shape who I am and it does not have any kind of influence over me. I AM INDEPENDANT

This Mandela day

18^th July a day that we celebrate each and every year, what have you done to give back, to uplift, and empower those less fortunate. For me this year was not as special as the previous years. As i was about to embark on my journey to help build a house in my area, we received a call saying that we have lost a family member.

Emotions ran through my mind, we were all shocked, no one knew what to do but we eventually gathered our thoughts and went to the hospital and we were told that she past away an hour before, the only question in our minds was what went wrong because the test came back clear , but we then later realised that cause of death is not important what is important is for us to continue to live and be happy no matter what.

Having someone die before you and you though that they were getting better is a huge slap in the face.  But we had to be strong for the whole family,  just a few days after the news we then heard that another family members has passed away. So you can guess that it has not been a great day for me and neither for my family.  It is these sudden death’s that makes you realise that life is precious and you should live life to the fullest. So what did you do??

“In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes you cant choose the fifteen minutes but why would you be world famous?”

Each and every individual has their own attributes in which they thrive for.. and we sometimes perceive these attributes good or bad.  Every one or in fact every young person has something to claim or offer the world with their uniqueness and ideas, but that is up to the way we execute and present those ideas.

One thing I know I will be famous for is, if not for my big whole heart, then for being able to land a helping hand,  I was raised in such a way that you cannot let the person next to you suffer, if you are able to help then do, and you cannot eat whilst the person next to you is not eating and you know that they are starving. Those are two of the most important principles that were instilled in me not only by my parents but by the community as a whole.

Even though these may seem as nothing or little or that they don’t matter but believe me, they do matter. By me doing that little bit I am actually helping someone and that is seen as doing good. You don’t have to be famous for what you do, but if you are happy and content with whatever you are doing then surely good things shall follow you where ever you go.

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