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Giving ICT SMMEs a Chance #PostCovid_19Lockdown

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No doubt, our challenges are many and mounting as we speak. Indications from different perspectives and sectors show we have grave problems and are heading for even the worst of times. Government and big business alone do not have sufficient resources, capacity and even credit rating to resolve many of these challenges facing society. But these important role players can enable extensive socioeconomic development to occur rapidly, thereby reverse our current malaise sooner. Such progress is achievable if attitudes and behaviour are changed. By Nimroth Gwetsa, 30 April 2020. Continue reading →

– FEELING OF #ENTITLEMENT KILLING ME SOFTLY

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By Nimroth Gwetsa, 26 January 2015

 150126 service delivery 1   150126 service delivery 2 (Pictures respectively from www.iol.co.za and www.enca.com, last accessed 26/ 01/ 2015)

This article is not an attempt to remix Roberta Flack’s Grammy Hall of Fame inducted rendition of Killing Me Softly. Hers is a Goldie Oldie. Different adaptations of her song earned many an artist, top dollar. Almost all versions of the song topped the charts everywhere they were played.

The feeling of entitlement, like Charles Fox’s composition of Flack’s song, also has its chart topping effect. Unlike Flack’s, entitlement mentality is a sure way of earning higher levels of impoverishment. This bold conclusion is based on my unscientific observation. Inequality and impoverishment is the outcome caused by different factors. This article is mainly concerned about the effect entitlement mentality could have in rising levels of impoverishment. Continue reading →