Good teachers learn from their mistakes
Friday, May 05, 2017
We get very little wisdom from success”. This rings true for 26-year-old Thabo Mhlanga, as he recalls how he got to learn from his past mistakes that range from drug abuse, promiscuity and abusing his clergyman position.
Mhlanga puts this on his debut motivational book When Dreams Don’t Come True where he talks about his life as the bad boy Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) pastor, who was not only a ‘chick magnet’ but was also a heart break kid, and drug abuser that later cleaned up his act.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...