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• Umlando wamaMbotho / History of the Mbotho Clan
  on Jan 20, 2015
  Nzala yakwaMbotho, sicela uncedo bethuna, sizama ukudibanisa umlando wethu. Below is a short history of our people that still needs to be investigated and verified. I decided to post it because I wanted to get the ball rolling towards putting somethi...
• Mental Emancipation of Self is now S.A.M - Strong Afrocentric Mindsets
  on Oct 2, 2012
  Please note that we have changed our name to S.A.M - Strong Afrocentric Mindsets visit us here...
• Starting a Business the Right Way
  on Jul 8, 2012 in business loans small business grants
  Keyword/s: business loans, small business grants [used in the article]  If you think that the success of a business depends on how much it has earned, think again. No matter how abundant the harvest is, if the core and pulp are rotten then th...
• The Gender Pay Gap
  on Jun 11, 2012
  The gender pay gap is the difference between the rates women and men are paid for doing the same job.  It has been an issue that has been looked at by policy makers ever since women started entering the labour market in large numbers. An organiz...
• The Camel, the Needle Head, and the Rich Man: What Christians Really Think About Wealth
  on Jun 7, 2012
  They say money makes the world go round. You use money to buy basic necessities like food, clothes, and shelter. You use it to pay the bills. You also use it to purchase other things like cars, gadgets, and vacations. Indeed, money can buy you thi...
• HOW TO SUCCEED AS A WOMAN IN A MALE DOMINATED PROFESSION
  on Jun 7, 2012 in women empowerment success career
  This is an article I wrote for the Delta Women Blog. To find out more about Delta Women and the wonderful work they do visit them at here and see what you can do to lend a helping hand. You can access the article from their blog here. HOW TO SUCCEED...
• It takes a village to raise a child, a holistic approach to addressing the problem of child headed families
  on Jun 1, 2012
  This article was originally written for the Youth Leader Magazine. For similar articles and more amazing stories of sustainable solutions by change makers around the world, please visit www.youth-leader.org The site is an amazing teaching tool as mos...
• Leadership Lessons from dancing guy!
  on Jun 1, 2012
  I recently wrote this article for an amazing publication; Youth-Leader Magazine. They focus on reporting on sustainable and replicable solutions for socio-economic issues, enjoy!   Derek Sivers calls himself an entrepreneur, programmer, avid...
• Ziyanda, South Africa | YOUTH-LEADER MAGAZINE > GLOBAL EDITION
  on May 21, 2012
  Ziyanda, South Africa | YOUTH-LEADER MAGAZINE > GLOBAL EDITION It’s like someone has taken the vision I had in my head and started putting it into practice. I have been looking for an organization that would be the right fit with me, with my p...
• YL @ Vision Summit 2012 / Edu-Action, Berlin-Potsdam | YOUTH-LEADER MAGAZINE > GLOBAL EDITION
  on May 21, 2012
  YL @ Vision Summit 2012 / Edu-Action, Berlin-Potsdam | YOUTH-LEADER MAGAZINE > GLOBAL EDITION...
• Loving each other by Leo Buscaglia....Part 1
  on May 2, 2012
  One of the best books on love and human relationships I've read in a while is called Loving Each Other by Leo Buscaglia Ph.D. Written in the early eighties yet the work is very relevant today. In the book he goes through a fact finding mission regard...
• Failure
  on May 2, 2012
  There is no such thing as failure, there is only the discovery of numerous ways not do something. Success is not a destination rather a journey through which you discover the best way to do something through trial and error.  A child l...
• Mutliple Intelligence
  on May 1, 2012
  A lot of the times people think of intelligence in one way, the logical and linear form of intelligence that we are trained and taught to emulate in school and measured in IQ tests. But intelligence is a lot more complex than that as demonstrated by...
• Yet another SG bites the dust!
  on Apr 25, 2012
  The South African Democratic Teacher's Union (SADTU) has once again succeeded in driving out yet another Superintendent General (SG) in the Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE), Advocate Moddima Mannya. This time they have driven out a candid...
• Police Officer Arrested for Shoplifting
  on Apr 25, 2012
  I really find it ironic that after SAPU obtained an interdict to prevent the SAPS from disarming police officers deemed unfit to carry a firearm, an article appears in today's paper regarding one being arrested for shoplifting in East London. Apparen...
• The disarming of unstable officers
  on Apr 23, 2012
  The SA Police Service has been blocked by the SA Policing Union from disarming police officers that have been declared unfit to handle firearms, Times Live reports. The majority of these police officers have been deemed unfit due to psychological iss...
• No, you can't have your own car. Dad’s on a budget.
  on Apr 19, 2012
  Before you start pouting, throwing tantrums and taking out your ultimate don’t-you-love-me-daddy look, please do understand: it also pains Daddy to not be able to give you what you want, sweetie. You see, Daddy has to deal with all these fluctuatio...
• The death penalty question
  on Apr 12, 2012
  Recently I was asked to comment on whether I am for the death penalty or against it. For a second this question threw me for a loop because I have never really considered what my standpoint is on this issue.  The death penalty is normally res...
• Review: The Evolution of Human Intellect: Discover the Information that Schools and Religions Aren't Yet Teaching
  on Apr 6, 2012
  The Evolution of Human Intellect: Discover the Information that Schools and Religions Aren't Yet Teaching by L.N. Smith My rating: 2 of 5 stars First the title of this book promises too much, it really does not deliver what it states. The u...
• Review: My Sister's Keeper
  on Apr 3, 2012
  My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult My rating: 5 of 5 stars The book is much better than the movie, actually you cannot compare the two. The book is richer and has more depth! At first I did not like Jodi's style of writing in this book, in pa...