During this Q&A session with myself one question I asked that stuck with me was, what are we then to do in this new dawn? and the answer was that we need to be in a position where we are really sober about our youth empowerment. Education remains one of the tools that we need to hold hands in making sure that it is accessible to even the most remote areas of our nation. Quality Education remains one of the greatest factors to empower our people to be leaders that tomorrow is waiting for.
The truth is quality education capable of bringing about empowered society depends on collective efforts from government, individuals, organizations and etc. We are the help our youth are waiting for. With all this in mind, Tiisetso Leadership Foundation has vowed to hold hands with all the available young professionals to bring about sessions that will solely focus on education list to data empowerment for our communities.
This is through understanding that for one to access a certain field, they need a certain level of education and understanding of that field and for our black community, there is a need to work extra harder to achieve this. Again with the president’s own words “We know that there is still a lot that divided us, we are divided by history, race, by where we live, and by gender”…With all these divisions, fully on any kind of help they can get to lead them to the right path.
In the second half of 1998, my journey to personal development began. I was a 15 years old lad, doing standard 8 (now Grade 10) at the time. I was having a conversation with a man that made so much impact in my life. He was a teacher in a neighbouring high school, and he later became a pastor, my pastor. He would ask me questions like “What do you want to study after matric? Where do you want to stay after university?