G.j.C.B.C Corner

‘We must stop blaming everyone for our mistakes and start using the help and tools we have to create something we won’t be ashamed of when we die’ …Unknown For a month I haven't written anything, hence the reason why I am so excited to finally be able to write this post. Reasons for my absence is all due to the planning of the very first rural-based convention! Frustrations and nerves are super high with everyone on the team because we are finally able to showcase our work for the past 4 years to a wider audience which is exciting and nerve-racking. Personally, I'm really happy to pay a tribute to International Tolerance Month. The community of Ceza, was chosen to host the country’s first grass-root involved Rural convention (25 -26 November 2019). With its high unemployment rate, lack of basic infrastructure (roads and plumbing pipes) and an internal feud ( wrote a post about in September 2019 for Heritage Day) it was the ideal place to launch the organiza

  (left: Nkosi Ndebele (Chief Ndebele) center: Umntwana Omkhulu (The head royal Prince of Egazini in Zululand) ) The understanding of South African history has easily lost its relevance to the new generation. With the country still being in its democratic infancy, cultural identity is easily forgotten or misunderstood. Personally,  my understanding of the different tribal bodies that makeup South Africa is only the size of the Shaka Zulu modules that were squeezed into my high school syllabus. The apartheid regime lessons then stripped away the little tribal and cultural knowledge of my own country. The different clans and tribes were all easily bundled up as just “blacks”. In the past year, I had the joy of exploring the beauty and the grim nature of the Zulu Nation. In many ways, I have become less Black and more African. The apartheid regime had created a lot of disruption within the tribal structures which traditionally were the pillars of the once-powerful Southern A

Dear School and Society  I'm writing this letter because I believe you two are not on the same page. You see I passed Life Orientation with flying colours but yesterday a man touched me, and I saw my dignity crash down like an injured blackbird falling to her death. He was my mother's best friend. I rushed home feeling like I was falling apart and had tried to scrub away his unwanted hands that were like ghosts haunting me, in need of answers I searched for my notebook. You know the one that I was required to have marked and checked regularly? Yes, that one. You told me not to talk to strangers and not to accept anything from them. Society taught me to respect my elders, and not to argue, traditions found ways to promote strangers to ‘aunt’, ‘uncle’ and ‘grandfather without my consent. I was never comfortable calling him uncle but when I tried to raise that issue I got disciplined on respect. They were strangers to me, but mom and dad have known them for what

"We are not poor, we are just going through a moment of poverty" There is a difference between going through poverty and being poor, this difference is easily overlooked. Going through poverty is a phase that passes, however being poor can be viewed as a static state that is engraved in you and too soon it becomes a deadly culture preventing growth. In 2019 I dedicated the year in landing my hand in rural development and growth within communities plagued by what I call the Poverty Culture. This is beyond the lack of proper sanitation and functional water systems, this culture manifests it self within communities as hopelessness and stuttering development, where the before picture taken 50 years ago looks too similar to the one taken yesterday. This culture openly reflects itself as men and women drink away their worries as a means to forget that alcohol is more abundant than employment . It is dreams shattered by the lack of resources, when even public libraries a

Date: 31 July – 02 August 2019 Workshop Speaker : P.N Gamede ( GJCBC ) Day 1 of activation: manufacturing demonstration Exploring the rawness of one's province is beyond beautiful and eye opening, it is similar to seeing a woman with no make-up on, in fewer words it is breathtakingly imperfect. The genuine awe of driving through Zululand and observing the beauty of the natural fauna and flora can really put you on tourist mode. My tourist mode switch started to flicker when the reality of why I was taking a two night trip away. The G.J.C.B.C (Global Joint Council Of Business Communities) had recently partnered with W.A.R.D ( Women In Agriculture and Rural Development) to drive the agenda of rural development, so instead of game drives I was instead driven to a few days of manufacturing demonstrations, workshop seminars and coming heads on with pit toilets that were close to overflowing. I was about to be involved in a less glamorous visit, one that reflected on th

Welcome to the Global Corner This is G.J.C.B.C's (Global Joint's Council Of Business Communities) official blog. If you haven't visited our website please do so you can get a better understanding of the organization, but for convenience here is a brief summary: The organization was founded in 2017 as a non-profit policy development and implementation institution, focusing on youth development and community development within grassroot communities. That kind of sounds like a mouth full so I am going to quickly break it down. Grassroot Communities also viewed as rural communities are plagued by a lack of development such as a large percentage of unemployment, lack of infrastructures such as roads and proper water systems and this is amongst many other factors. The organization's founder created this platform were constructive research is conducted in answering the question of "why is there lack development in these areas" and most importantly what are the