Pulling each other down does not add a penny in your pocket

Sad truth! I wonder why?

“Umunt’omnyama akafuni uk’bon’umunt’omnayama aya phezulu” (Black people don’t like seeing other black people prospering) is still a booming phrase between South Africans young and old.

When I was young I took these words (lyrics) by Chiskop for granted. I liked Kwaito because it spoke so much and I related. Yes at that time the song was only nice to dance to, since I had no responsibilities and I did not see what surrounded me, but now it really hits me!

Isikoloto (credit), freebies and price negotiation is what some black people will ask for from a black entrepreneur. People complain and negotiate a R5 cabbage to be R3 while at corporate stores they will never do that. People will rather support a stranger because they think their support will make you rich, this can be led by jealousy and envy. And this is the sad reality.

Close relatives and friends will not be so close to you when you are starting and crawling in your success and business endeavor, but come greatness and success friends don’t even ask how you made it, they just “start supporting you”.

I pray that people will find peace within them and learn from other races on how and why they support one another.  You will never know that one day you will be the one needing help from the very same person you never supported.

Let us unite!