INSTEAD OF TOYS, JUST ROLL OUT JOBS MR MOTSEPE

Dr Patrice Motsepe photo by facebook

There’s a well-known USA song called “Hard-Knock Life” written by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin for the hit musical called Annie in 1977, and has since been reprised by several artists in that country.

The opening lyrics of the song emphasise that it is a hard knock life out there; that instead of being kindly treated, some people get tricked; that instead of being kissed some people get kicked.

What I am driving at here is that it is really a hard knock life for many unemployed black and Coloured folks and their children in South Africa; and that trillionaire Patrice Motsepe’s annual toy-donating antics to the so-called needy children are a sickening phenomenon.

Instead of Motsepe giving toys to the said children, he must instead roll out jobs for their unemployed parents.

After receiving the said toys, those children go back to poor family backgrounds where they will sleep with empty stomachs because their parents are unemployed and can’t afford to provide them with supper.

In terms of Motsepe’s thinking, children from poor families desperately lack toys because their parents can’t afford to buy them any as they are unemployed.

But sadly, it has apparently never crossed Motsepe’s mind that with the trillions of rand that are at his disposal, he should roll out jobs for the unemployed parents instead of giving toys to their children.

If he gives jobs to the parents, then the parents will obviously be able to buy toys for their own children and also be able to provide their kids with basic necessities like food, school uniform and shelter.

Now one may ask as to what kind of jobs must Motsepe create for the unemployed parents.

The answer is simple because since Motsepe likes toys so much, he can establish a toy factory whereby the said unemployed parents would be employed.

It doesn’t help in any any way whatsoever to keep on praising Motsepe every year for handing out toys to needy children and asking God to bless him and give him more luck and wealth, “because he is apparently a generous man.”

Those toys that he is handing out have not, do not, and will never, have any impact on the economic well-being of those child recipients and their parents.

They will continue to live in the doldrums of poverty with a frown until Motsepe comes again the next Christmas season to put a smile on their faces again for only a day.

And please spare me the nonsense that via Mamelodi Sundowns Motsepe has created jobs, because my counter argument would be how many jobs have been created at Sundowns and who is benefitting from the so-called jobs?

While Motsepe is busy handing out toys that won’t empower those who receive them, Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum is busy building a university that would empower Afrikaner children with a whopping R3,2 billion.

Construction of the university building started in Pretoria in August this year, and is scheduled to be completed in 2028.

And chances are it will indeed be completed in 2028 as scheduled because there won’t be delays caused by the so-called Construction Mafia demanding a 30% share for doing nothing regarding the enhancement of the construction of the university building.

There won’t be anyone hiring killers from KwaZulu Natal to come and kill the owner of the construction project.

Now as blacks continue to make a noise and sing, whistle, ululate and clap their hands every year Motsepe gives their children toys, Afrikaners will silently but emphatically forge ahead to empower themselves.

I rest my case!