https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w After 27 years into Democracy, currently with an unemployment rate of over 35% and poverty escalating each and everyday. ARE WE FREE YET? Honorable members join me in this quest in finding the ANSWER. en-us 2022-04-12 21:53:38 UTC 2022-05-01 06:15:48 UTC hello@padlet.com ST_Mandondo https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141541281 Friends and family let us all join in this venture and discover this myth. Are we free yet? Like, Comment, Press the + icon and share your thoughts...]]> 2022-04-12 22:22:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141541281 ST_Mandondo https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141625645 It has been decades from the transition of the BANTU education system into a new education system.
A system that is perpetuated to be free and equal for all South Africans. 
A system that is there to empower, share skills and knowledge from a developmental stage into moulding an individual that is ready to join the workforce. 
The question becomes which workforce? when there are no job opportunities, how realistic is the objective of the current education system? How many qualified graduates are sitting at home or in the street corners of South Africa? Are we Academically free or Oppressed?

My people engage with me and share your views, thoughts and experiences on the comment section below...]]> 2022-04-13 00:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141625645 ST_Mandondo https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141691596 After many years of black people being held captive by the racial segregation system, with no economic power or influence. How do we reclaim our economy when we have a fixed supply chain with zero access level of entry? Strict laws and high costs of policies, rules and regulations that need to be followed just to own a simple spaza shop. Incentives are being offered but are they enough? Is there enough support for entrepreneurs? 
We tend to see many of our African brothers and sisters in our country trying to make a living, do we blame them for our unemployment rate currently at 35.3%?
Let's shift our focus from them occupying jobs in South Africa to Capitalists who require cheap labor and take advantage of these immigrants just to increase profits and nothing makes them happier than hearing South Africans blaming these immigrants not them. 
As the current generation how do we free ourselves?

Share your thoughts, experiences and engage with me!!!]]> 2022-04-13 01:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2141691596 222028432 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2148812318 We as Africans must live up to the saying "Umntu ngumntu ngabantu" and help lift each other without expecting some kind of payment in return. We are sisters and brothers so we should not hesitate to help each other. I believe jobs are not that scarce but in nowadays it depends who you are and who you know not how qualified you are ofwhich that is totally wrong. ]]> 2022-04-19 15:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2148812318 214029387_zmkham https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2149708986 It would be better and wiser for us to  first define freedom, and then use that definition as our point of departure, because it will do us no good if we rashly set off into discussing Educational/Economical Freedom while having different and even contradicting understandings of freedom. 
It is also important to notice that even though we are technically free, but practically we are still suffocating (educationally and economically) under the aftermath of the apartheid system. The legacy of apartheid continues to segregate the population and restrict black people in terms of employment and education. 
However, it is not logical for us to use unemployment to justify the crimes being committed by black people, just as it is not logical for white people (Caucasians) to use the apartheid system, and even the evolution theory to oppress and anathemise Africans. We all have a choice to exercise restraint and moral acuteness when we react to situations around us i.e. the atrocities that we are suffering, including how we treat other people. ]]> 2022-04-20 03:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2149708986 222143223 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2153488017 This country needs it’s citizens to stand up for it already because the democracy that we were told about is not enough because the people of the country are still suffering. The freedom of our country depends on the citizen’s unity because together we can prosper.]]> 2022-04-22 12:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2153488017 222201088 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2153503919 well that is what we as South Africans believe, because of the opportunities we are given that our grandparents , parents didn't have. But how's that because there are still educated South Africans there who are unemployed, the number of blacks who are unemployed increases everyday. Blacks are still born with less opportunities other than other races. We still fighting poverty but we are a free country, we lack proper education but we are a free country, we still have to pay school fees to receive education but we are a free country. Free how ? I don't know , people bribe their way up to the top while the deserving are still at the bottom. I would say that we as the youth need to make better choices but I know people change when money is involve. They tend to be greedy so there's nothing we can do but to only encourage people as individual to create a better future for themselves. ]]> 2022-04-22 12:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2153503919 222053763 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2158069382 2022-04-26 07:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2158069382 222271604 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2158722714 Nkokheli we are not free, tomorrow we will be celebrating 28 years since the dawn of democracy. However everything bad is black in this country. Majority of the poor is black, majority of convicted criminals are black, majority of unemployed is black. ]]> 2022-04-26 15:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2158722714 222096349 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2160941356 There still alot academically around that state that we are not free .they say that we have equal rights to education .but yet there are still schools that compares or state themselves as higher education. Which means there equallity .I Still remember how I struggled to get in to university irrespective of the fact that I met the standards or requirements for the specific cause so no I would say that there is no freedom yet


]]> 2022-04-27 18:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2160941356 222096349 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2160945094 Once again I was reminded of the period time I looked for a job my matric qualifications and everything and still there were no JOBS OR OPPORTUNITIES available that is once again a prove that out country is not free yet. And they are still unequal and living in comparison]]> 2022-04-27 18:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2160945094 khanyepalesa0 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2163391013 Well I've observed that South Africans are greedy and can't work hand in hand with each other. As black South Africans we'd rather help imigrants than helping each other win and also people are followers and would do anything for money , that's why there are bribes , to make the clever and observant one's quiet and carry on with greediness than helping each other in fighting poverty and having great opportunities. I believe we oppress ourselves from freedom because of capitalization and being greedy to help others. South Africa has thousands of people with good qualifications but have no jobs , because of the new greedy system , you now get a job by bribe or by knowing someone who might connect you . All in all people only care about their own interests and opportunities and not about others who are really in need , now that's not freedom for all.]]> 2022-04-28 22:09:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2163391013 222215577 https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2165452707 Legal discrimination along racial lines in South Africa ended with the demise of apartheid but racial categorisation is still being used by the government for monitoring economic changes and continues to cause controversy.]]> 2022-04-30 20:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ST_Mandondo/bxzigwxn39msxq8w/wish/2165452707