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Train the youth to govern South Africa

South Africa should look into investing in its youth to govern SA.

My reasons are simple and hopefully clear enough. First, the youth of South Africa share almost the same fate when it comes to high unemployment, and the so called 'leaders' have nothing to offer this country due to their entitlement on public resources.

Secondly, these leaders, when they are placed in power, have tendencies to enrich themselves. Lastly, if we had world class leaders that could mentor our youth in the premise of being presidents, entrepreneurs, leaders, etc. we would most probably not be labelled as a 'junk status' country.

But due to maladministration and public resource abuse, our leaders, and everyone out there is out to enrich themselves. Being part of the youth, if I were to run South Africa as president, I would invest my time in getting the right mentors from abroad to advise and guide me into getting SA to where it is supposed to be and beyond.

And most importantly, recruit people whose work has done wonders in SA - Thuli Madonsela, Pravin Gordhan to name a few, in collaboration with leaders from world class countries, come up with plans and execution strategies to aid in the betterment of RSA.

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