Don't look for handouts from goverment , network!!!

Leaving a mark to a person’s well being and finances would be marked by the these factors

·         Social development

·         Spiritual development

·         Time  management

·         Networking and mentorship

 

These are some of  the factors I got from interviews  I posed on a social event that was organised by the Global Business Roundtable. The GBR  is a God –centred and inspired global business networking  initiative which was prompted by a deep desire to start a prayer meeting for people in business as well as to support for working  professionals in their various fields.

These factors  should be policies that business men should sign on as  majority of businessmen  have taken pride in just taking  and not taking on a Marxist method of conducting business in Africa. I also believe  South Africa has been free for 20 years but it has never reached  financial freedom and that has  been evident in townships where a large number of youth are unemployed .

Policies like Black Economic Empowerment ,  South  Africa’s affirmative action policies, free hand outs by our political parties have  produced  average expectations and thought in terms of waiting for government to make  life  comfortable for black people . These policies  are starting to show cracks as several black empowerment deals have collapsed. Political commentator , entrepreneur , Journalist and critic of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) , Moeletsi Mbeki   once said affirmative action policies championed by his brother  Thabo have entrenched the rich –poor divide in Africa’s biggest economy and could lead to an explosion of violence.

“BEE tells blacks you don’t have to build your own business , you don’t have to take risks , the whites will give you a job and shares in their company he said” I blame the ANC for buying into this story that instead of blacks working hard .... they should be given a free ride.”

Problems that are occurring with black empowerment has encouraged corruption with lawmakers reportedly rigging tenders to benefit associates .  Moletsi says white business oligarchs are complicit because they use the policy to keep a few members of the black elite happy while still dominating the economy 15 years after the fall apartheid.

Mkeki said that unless South Africa axes the policy in favour of a broader skills development drive , South Africa’s underclass , crammed into vast settlement of rickety shacks with no water or electricity , will balloon and eventually turn on the elite.

But programmes like the Business Roundtable is what government should be investing on as it stands a chance to make youth think differently . Why should youth struggle if theres people that are already making it as far as wealth, people who made dreams come true in different fields , most importantly people that came from the same background they did .

The Global Business Roundtable believes business cannot leave the issues of right to health , right to education , right to development and rights fundamental to democracy for its communities or government alone. The absence of these rights creates voids , weakens the foundation of business and makes it unsustainable. Business has to take a proactive role in ensuring and facilitating the access to those rights. This is no longer a choice but a business imperative.

The Global Business Roundtable was also formed  under guidance of spirituality  , which is what youth has lost hence there is hopelessness  in a lot of youngsters.  God is believed to be the only key to open doors in any young man’s or women’s life that’s where life begins .Hard work and commitment lets you  walk in his footsteps because he was known as an action man.

The organisations plans to emphasize the importance of this movement in schools , Universities  where heads will meet to educate more students  about the organisations so that it builds an unstoppable career paths with knowledge .

The chairmen of the GBR said “success depends on the people you know”. So why wait to be a statistic of unemployment , why wait a report recently showed that more than 50% of young South African between age 15 -24 are unemployed , at the same time  the rising cost of higher education has left a generation with unplayable debt and little chance of finding a job.

Let networking be the engineer of your career and lets pass information and help .