Politicians have convinced people in South Africa that politics or changing political leaders is the solutions to their problems. In various social media platforms are filled with content and videos of people expressing their political views and saying that things will change once the current government is removed. This information is useful to some people but it is misleading to majority of people because it takes people, especially young people away from being responsible for their own lives. Young people have the belief that all their problems are caused by politics or political leaders. While it is somehow true that the current government is not doing enough to run the country, we often forget as the youth that life is individual, and we cannot rely on organizations, political parties or government systems that we don't even understand to determine our personal lives. There are many young people that have achieved things and reached their childhood dreams, and they continue to prosper not because of the government but because they faced their dreams head on, even when it was tough. The youth just needs organization that will encourage them, give them motivation, and most importantly give them information that will help them take the right steps and the right direction towards their dreams

Young black youth in South Africa are struggling to get jobs in this economy, and the only available jobs seems to be in sales, where the youth is exploited and demanded to work hard and determined in difficult working conditions and unfair agreements. In most of these sales jobs, workers are demanded to work long hours, chasing after people in shopping malls and public areas, trying to sell them, insurance policies, or get to convince them to open shopping accounts, but they get paid on commission based which seems unfair to be honest. I mean how do these these people expect young people who come from poor backgrounds to get money to travel to work everyday without being certain that they will be paid enough to even be able to pay for transportation in the following month? And secondly when these young people are standing in public areas and wearing branded gears of these companies that the "work for" or holding the company's products, flyers or posters, ain't they already advertising those companies and their products? And ain't they supposed to be paid for that, before the issue of how many customers they got arises? For example these companies often post their products on billboards, and they pay to advertise their products there. A billboard doesn't talk to anyone or get any specific customers, but it is still paid for. So the sales teams must also be paid for advertising the product by just being there and being present in public areas. Clearly the lack of employment and the youth's desperation for employment is being used to exploit and manipulate these young people into doing advertising work for free and it is sugar-coated by being called "commission based" work.

Young black youth in South Africa are struggling to get jobs in this economy, and the only available jobs seems to be in sales, where the youth is exploited and demanded to work hard and determined in difficult working conditions and unfair agreements. In most of these sales jobs, workers are demanded to work long hours, chasing after people in shopping malls and public areas, trying to sell them, insurance policies, or get to convince them to open shopping accounts, but they get paid on commission based which seems unfair to be honest. I mean how do these these people expect young people who come from poor backgrounds to get money to travel to work everyday without being certain that they will be paid enough to even be able to pay for transportation in the following month? And secondly when these young people are standing in public areas and wearing branded gears of these companies that the "work for" or holding the company's products, flyers or posters, ain't they already advertising those companies and their products? And ain't they supposed to be paid for that, before the issue of how many customers they got arises? For example these companies often post their products on billboards, and they pay to advertise their products there. A billboard doesn't talk to anyone or get any specific customers, but it is still paid for. So the sales teams must also be paid for advertising the product by just being there and being present in public areas. Clearly the lack of employment and the youth's desperation for employment is being used to exploit and manipulate these young people into doing advertising work for free and it is sugar-coated by being called "commission based" work.

Sometimes the way that Soweto is portrayed in our South African novels, stories and soapies is not the way that we as people of Soweto see it. I think proper research and asking the people of Soweto about their environments, their daily lives, their daily challenges and struggles, their wins and losses and all that content could really boost the understanding of storytellers so that they can produce the perfect stories with accurate representations of a place or a group of people

I think we need more and more South Africa or African stories on our screens, I think a lot of stories or shows that are being created these days are a copy of Western and European content. We do watch and love international content but when it comes to content creators in South Africa such as #Netflix South Africa and #Showmax we really expect African or South African content from them. There is a lot of things they can create TV content about such as the story of Shaka Zulu which I think has recently been created which is a good thing, the apartheid struggle, where they can create a series that will explain the whole history of race in South Africa. They could create TV shows and movies about South Africa and Africa's great icons such as Mariam Makeba and many other icons that need to be celebrated. We have many great stories that we should make TV shows about but we still seeing South African shows that imitate European and American content in our TV screens.

If there are courses in tertiary institutions that are useless and won't get us jobs when we graduate then why do the government and even the tertiary institutions allow those courses to exist and be studied by the youth knowing very well that the reason we are studying is to gain employment? And why don't they inform us that these courses are useless before we even attempt to apply for them?

We have many successful black people, whom I think should be the one who uses their resources to help young black people get in the right direction in life. What these kids needs especially when they are still in high schools is strong motivation and encouragement, helping the girl child understand that as a woman you can make it and have your own money, and that you don't need a man to survive in this world, you are good enough on your own and also teach that boy child that you can make it in life even from a poor background, and that there are more important things in life than being cool and that there's nothing cool about doing wrong things. There needs to be motivational sessions at least once a week for every high school student, where they will be pushed by friendly advisors or motivational speaker to do good in life. This would groom learners to stay positive and focused on their goals while maintaining their teenage life. I am saying this because many young people are less focused on their goals these days , and there are less and less young people who are trying hard to achieve their desired goals.

so eye-opening to understand that self-love and self-sufficiency are inherently different concepts. if you enjoy going to places alone, cooking alone, taking a walk by yourself, you’re self-sufficient—able to both rely on and luxuriate in your own company in instances where you’re on your own. but self-love has more to do with how compassionate you are to yourself when you make mistakes: with understanding that failure is human, that it’s unavoidable at times, and that you should be kind to yourself when it happens rather than critical of your shortcomings. this is why the whole adage that “you can’t truly be loved by someone else until you love yourself” kind of falls flat for me. finding someone else who’s emotionally secure & available has been proven to help you become more compassionate/kind/patient to yourself (self-love), even if you already know how to spend time alone (self-sufficiency). confusing these two things had led people to mistakenly believe that wanting human connection means that you can’t rely on yourself, when in reality it’s perfectly valid to want a bond that strengthens your self-esteem and encourages you to pursue life the way you want to

I wonder what happened to the great and effective initiatives in South Africa such as Lovelife, that would go to go from school to school and into communities, trying to teach the youth about living healthy, safe and responsible lives. Those programs were very effective for the youth back then because they raised awareness among the youth to avoid being involved in activities that would put their lives in danger or ruin their future...........The youth in recent years are very much reckless with their lives. They are very hypersexual, they are some of the largest consumers of alcohol, and majority of them are not bothered with their future, they simply don't care about becoming something in the society............If we take a look closely at this matter, people born in the 1990s in South Africa were among the first to benefit from the financial schemes that the government has, that help fun students for tertiary education, and most of those people born in the 1990s, especially people from the townships took that opportunity to go to Universities and colleges to study, but most young people today, which are those born in the 2000s do not take advantage of those facilities, only a few of them make it to tertiary institutions, and the biggest issue is that no one is doing anything about it to help these young, with motivation, encouragement and guidance..........we have a lot of young people who have graduated in social and humanities degrees that are meant to tackle the very same problems in the society, but many of them are at home with their degrees because there are no initiatives that work to build societies, and communities now, all we are focused on now is finance and economics, without realizing that if we do not have programs that will help groom our societies, especially the youth, the government will always pay social grants to people in the townships, who are not equipped and no knowledge or desire to participate in the economy