South Africa our land:

South Africa belongs to all who live in it......
As a young black man who experienced a good potion of apartheid, I'm glad to say it did not turn my heart inside out. We have a number of white people who are in denial about the effect of it towards black people. We also have a good number of black people who don't want to move from the after effect of apartheid, they always fall back on it when things does not go well, It has to stop.

#Zumamustfall and #killthewhites statements must stop now, we need to respect those in authority.

You don't have to be apologetic for being White in South Africa, and you don't have to be inferior as a Black person in your native land.

Political parties and agents of doom must stop using students to perpetrate act of vandalism and hooliganism in our beautiful country. Since when does student fight for University worker's who have unions representing them?
Can a sane student burn the same lecture hall that he has to attend on when everything is sorted?

 This is now obvious that a third hand that is aiming at driving away investors, perpetrate political unrest and paint a bad picture about SA is in action. Who cuts off his fathers hand because he needs bread. When your parents cant buy you new clothes at home do you break windows and doors? Is this a way to weakened our currency the Rand?

We need to stop being used by other people as puppets as they settle their score for political gain. When I donate blood, it is not marked black/white. Can it be that you are alive today because of a black man's blood and hate him so much? Can it be that you are running on a white man's blood while you hate them so much? We are connected one way or the other.

They are many white families who hired our mother and aunts, payed them salary, gave them their children's clothes for free, accommodated them in their back cottage free, took their children to school and paid the school fees, and bought them uniform and further took them to university. So we can not have a blanket approach when it comes to dealing with issues of the past.

Love always drives hate away
Light always drives darkness away
A rainbow needs all its colours
"Eye for an eye makes the world go blind" Mzwakhe Mbuli.
QB Mthethwa
 

Customer service:

As a cashier, merchandiser, packer, team leader, store manager and all other departments in the store. What do you see when the doors open in the morning and the customers start walking in?.
Do you see somebody who thinks he or she is better than you,  do you see somebody who is coming to complain, do you see a person who is coming to show off?
Do you see a person who is living large, who wants to treat you like her maid or garden boy?
Do you see a Black, Coloured, Indian or a white person?
Is your service based on the dress code, hair style, famous TV personality or sports person, municipal worker?

To be a front of house is a privilege position ever, you will never know who you serving until you render excellent service or very poor service.
You have an opportunity to sell yourself to a big firm HR person who is coming to buy lunch, have a breakfast meeting or buy an out fit for herself.
You have a opportunity to serve breakfast, lunch or dinner to a company CEO.
You have an opportunity to ring a soft drink for a manager who is desperately looking to hire people.
You can be talking to a foreign citizen who is looking for a local business partner.
You could be talking to a young casting director looking for new faces for TV.
Take good care of that position and customers.God has put you there for a Divine appointment with the person who has what you need.
"Customer Service is not a department, it's an attitude" Zig Ziglar.
1. Put on your smile and a positive attitude, be neat and tidy your work space.
2. Always greet customers with a smile and ask if they have their grocery bags or they need one.
2. No two people are the same, don't expect me to be rude like the customer you just served.
3. Be at work and show up, mind, body and soul, and no one will spoil your day.
4. You current customer is your first priority, let your colleagues and everybody know.
5. Concentrate on your customer not your fellow packer.
6. Know your customer, know when to make a conversation and when not to do so.
7. Keep eye contact when confirming something with your customer.
8. Cash change, card and pen should be given on customers hand not slide it on the counter as if you avoiding contact with a dirty or sick person.
9. Advise a customer about a special he or she missed out on.
10. Thank your customer for doing business with you and ask them to call again...TBC
QB Mthethwa

Laf'elihle kakhulu...(Cry the beloved country)

What would you say if your son or daughter say to one of their siblings "get off your ASS and get your own juice? Do you as a parent ground that child and say, that's not how we talk in this house. What if I tell you that this is on Virgin TV add day and night.
What if he or she advances now and start calling them Bitch or use the F*** word, do you ground him or her? What if I tell you again that these have become common words on our TV, Generations Legacy, Scandal and others lately.
One can never safe guard children from TV and the languages that the regulatory comity have opened a tap on. For black families(SA) this is a disgrace and it give children grounds of challenging our house rules and behaviour. They say if this was a bad language or word, how come its on TV?
Once again, if the council of churches and all other human rights organisations are not challenging this profanity, they are failing us.
Time and again they omit the word God or Jesus on TV, but we have to close our ears when we turn on our TV set. I am not happy when my hard work of brininess children with Godly manners gets washed out just like that.....
#Virginaddmustfall
#Generationslegacylanguagemustfall
#Scandallanguagemustfall
QB Mthethwa

Evil prevail for good man do nothing

 A letter to my President

*Let me not speak for everyone, but in the true sense of democracy of which our beloved country was founded up on, we have to let freedom of speech reign.
*Our parliament has more members who does not subscribe to Godly principles, hence they out vote the minority that wants to implement the correct humanity laws, they have stopped prayers in schools, abortions has become a normal thing on the street, punishment of children's has criminalised.
*Proverbs23:13-14 "spare the rod and spoil a child.
* Every street corner you are greeted by illegal posters of fly by night abortion clinics, the Gov is not doing much in tracking them down and closing those institutions.
* Our police have been turned to social worker's if not midwives, striped off every power you know a policeman to have. Criminals have more rights than police, they know very well when and how a police must shot. Police die with service pistols on their hips, they are not allowed to shot first. On the contrary criminals have no bullet to waste, shooting police like its going out of fashion.
*The SAPS and Metro police jobs were poverty alleviating jobs, many families are great today because one person in a family joined the force and was able to make a difference at home and community, for once a black family having a decent income. The person will be legible to take a loan and take his bothers and sister to college and university, that's how most black families escaped poverty and were able to better the townships and rural areas you see today. I am a statistic to that, my brother was in the police force and our family life was transformed. Today you need to have a drivers licence to obtain those jobs, are we opening doors for illegal licenses? Closing door for black man and woman who come from difficult background to rise, have we forgotten how we got better before?.  What about that family where there is nothing? their only hope is that child doing grade 12, where are they going to get money to do the licence for him/ her?
*School assembly and prayer are things of the past, hence teachers fear students more than criminals, learners attacks one another with guns and knifes in the school premises, something new and should not be happening in our democracy. I think it time then to bring the army or police to be teachers in schools, safety first. Children under the age of 10 can gang rape another minor during school hours.
*For as long as we say church and politics does not mix, we will suffer disgrace. Remember Chief Albert Luthuli, a father, a teacher, a minister of the word of God and an activist.  The church must rise and take it's political stand or say nothing about corruption.
* Our education system has been reduced to nothing, with the lowest passing mark in the ever, I don't think we really want to be globally competent. Our neighbours Zimbabwe and Swaziland have the best education system, our education system is still very close to the apartheid system that forced us blacks to study so we can get employed. We need more vocational schools than traditional schools. Why force me to seat and listen to theory when my skill can be found in the work shop, are you setting me up for failure. We were only taught how to draft a CV not a businesses plan, yet the Gov is dishing out money and pushing for us to be entrepreneurs. The Zimbabweans in SA are not begging for bread, they begging for jobs. Their education system prepares them to leave school at Gr 12 and be self employed as they are doing all over SA. They make a killing as they are self employed in plumbing, tilling, building, motor machines, carpenters, electricians.
 *Our housing projects needs a face lift or restructuring, to an unemployed person a free house means free electricity and free water, after that he is going to strike for service delivery and burn a library or clinic. How about building low cost descent house that we can pay for, to keep the rand revolving.
*Tender program leave people more in indebted than it found them, we were not taught to be business people but employees, and the gov still don't understand, instead of changing the education system, they want to inject more cash. I am an ANC card caring member, it is my duty to put my gov under pressure for the sake of my children. It's not about what the Gov can do for me, but what I can do for my Gov...QB Mthethwa

Heart over Mind

An excellent boxer is the one who uses more brain/mind over the one who's emotions and his heart takes over the fight.
The best way of not buying a car you dont need,  just decline the offer to test drive it.
Most children/teens who have a problem staying single are the one's who are not doing well/failling at school. The A class student are wise enough to know that a boy or girlfriend will divide my mind and attention more than it has been divided by books.
It's always easy to be emotional than to think about a way out of a situation.
When a boy/girl say to an insecure/ D class child "you beautiful, I love you" they actually get  a sence of belonging and their mind simply seizes to function/ think and concentrate on finding ways and means to always appeal to the one who said they are beautiful. They will despise their parents/ guardians for that boy or girl who said they beautiful. Their half empty mind jumps and say here is a person coming to fill the void in me and top me up(pre paid).
They are the one's you will find in the street corners kissing, drinking in the public parks and paying no attention to elderly people.
The A class children might give a shocking answer, you will think they are full of themselves "what makes you think I dont know that" , 3D answer, lights out. They know that  they have something important in them, they might not know what it is because they young, but their mind quickly say " what do you want from me"?

As a child you only need to be sober all the time, becareful of messed up kids who does not want to go down the drain by them selves, but want to drag the D class, half empty minded you with them. Refuse to fill part of your life with relationship love when you cannot accomordate what you learning at school for your future.
Most of the kids think they are doing  their parents a favour, not knowing that your parents/ guardians are just a support system for you, they are more like wheels and you are the car, imagine a car without wheels, it can start but it's not going nowhere. How do you know all this? I was once young, half empty minded and stupid...
QB Mthethwa

Our Children

I never thought I wil be saying this, I guess age has coughtup with me, the inevitable.
Our children think we were never young or their age. we know what they going through and it's not new.
A petty lie some times that was not necessary can discredit you from your parents
 Trust is earned, not bought, give me enough reasons not to trust you and I wont disapoint.
When you say to them, you not going out with friends I dont know, the get upset and devise schemes that will bite them before the end of that day.
When you see my child at the mall, whatapp me to say I see so and so at the mall, are u also around. I will never say you snooping around, but will apreaciate that somebody I know has seen and care about my child.

They have back packs with uniform or clothes to change, they leave home as going to soccer, ruby, hockey or netball game, and they know thats just a scapegoat.
Some parent would choose to be relevant to children and never say a word even when withnessing a wrong from children(it none of my business).

Back in the days it was a village's duty to raise a child.
As we get more and more western, there are basics that still works today that we need to keep and practice all the time for the better of our children...
QB Mthethwa

Leadership and Organisation:

Two different things,  leadership is not the organisation but serves within the organisation for a particuler period of time. I may not agree with the strategy of the leadership but that does not mean I will abandon the organisation. Thats where succession plan is vitally important.

In the times of the greatest king of the Mthethwa tribe and the Nguni nation, they were people who did not agree with the vision of unity introduced by Dingiswayo, king Shaka's mento know as the Zulu nation today. Those people found themselves in Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Eastern Cape and all over, just like today you can find them in Australia.

When as an ambitious young man, Godongwane was expelled by his father and went to stay emampodweni (Eastern Cape), he refused to stay with his nativeves and went to stay with the whites so he can learn their language, cuture and art of war.

After his fathers death he returned to take his seat as a king, he called the surrounding kings to say I have seen what the white people have done in the Eastern Cape, they have fought and conquered many kings, so let us unite as the Nguni nation so that they wont defeat us, one tribe does not stand a chance but together we can win.

Thats how the Zulu/Nguni nations fought guns with bare hands and won.

Many bought into the Idea, those who did not were fought and brought back to be the subject of Dingiswa(his return name) the Nguni nation grow in number and was untouchable, until Dingiswayo's assassination by his great friend Zwide, and Shaka returned home KwaZulu to fight his brothers for his kingship and continued with the vision of his mento Dingiswayo hence we have the Zulu nation today.

My point is, the vision of the organisation continues even atfer the change in leadership occurs, it does not matter how that change comes about but the organisation always stand tall. The ANC is and will awlays be the oldest(104yrs) and loyay movement of the people, and South Africa will always be the best country in the world. We will lead and the rest will follow. Those who say the sky is falling must run for safety where they feel secured. We will continue building our beloved country brick by brick as the rainbow nation ...
QB Mthethwa

Small Dusty Street

The freeway does not lead to your destination, it takes you closer but far. Your life is nothing but free on it, no obstacles nothing, you keep left and pass right. Untill you click on that indicator and take an off ramp(Short left in South Africa) you still far from the real deal, yet close.
The small streets that takes you to your home, your business, your future has challenges, for the first time you see a stop street/ sign,  a robot, a zebra crossing, a taxi cuting before you, a far redused speed limit (School ahead), even smash and grab zones.

Your petience and determination will be tested. Our personal lives are not far from this reality. The path way that takes you to your dream is full of Job losses, I call it getting off the hiway, risk taking, I call that taxi pulling before you, stop, yield, school ahead, those are opportunities, it says observe, look left look right but keep going forward.

All of this can not be found on a free way because the freeway does not lead you to your destination, for you to reach your goal, you have to take that off ramp(Short left) and start mixing with people.
Come to think of it, are you aware that in the township people can talk while in their cars and moving at the same time, greet others, buy lose cigarate, get lose change and show love, far be it on the free way.
Gold is not found on the surface, you need to dig deep, get dirty in the dark for you to reach your goal. I realised this one thing very early in my life, that nothing ever come easy for me, I have to put on a fight all the time just like I'm doing now...
QB Mthethwa

Life, I have God by my side

Life has given up on tormenting me, from a permanent position to a home manager, self employed buyer and sales man, still I have no time to sulk and hold on to what is gone.....
Actually, the little birdy told me that Life is organising to give back everything it took from me with interest for the past years it tryed to pin me down, and God made it rain and the pags could not hold firm and I rose.
He(Life) has spoken to his uncles Time and Chance to accompany him to present everything back to me.......what a pleasant suprise for them, however I knew this was coming.
In the news paper interview Life was quoted saying, "You cant curse what God has blessed" in a disapointed voice he said, "I give up, this God is a good parent"
Life was aiming to frustrate me and  make me lose hope, so I gave him a taste of his own medicine.
Incase you wondering how all this will unfold, rest asure
 You will be there alongside my panel of friends, testifiying, "we saw him selling bags and watches, he walked for km's to get to his clients when his car packed. We tried to fill pitty for him and he shouted at us and said "empty it, its not mine".
Please stay sweet and humble as you are when the Almighty put you in a pedestal, they said.
Thank you, I know those two darlings, Sweet and Humble, I will always keep them close to me...
QB Mthethwa