The only way that we can #StopPovertyInSA is if you can create jobs for others and wealth for yourself in the community that you come from or live in.
Money is not visible with the naked eye but if you look at the things people in your community buy and use on a daily basis such as tissue paper, dish washing liquid, bread, milk, maize meal, meat just to name a few you can begin to see how big the economy is in the area you come from and then you can look to grow your services into other districts, provinces and other countries.
It is easier said than done but there is definitely some of us who have been chosen by the universe and have been given immerse talent to help and lead our communities but we are either lazy or we are not trying hard enough.
In 2018, the Soweto Economy was estimated at a whooping R4 – 5billion and if you take that income and check what products it buys and therefore where the money goes, it still leaves Soweto poverty stricken.
KZN has an estimated population of 11,3m and if half (5,65m) of that population uses two tissue rolls per month at R6.00 a role as an example then the tissue market in KZN is easily R1billion per year at the least and what is your share of this staggering amount?
If we use the population of the whole of South Africa then the tissue market is easily R5billion.
There is tons and tons of other products we can use as examples all we do is to watch, complain, and blame someone or some institution or the government, not to say institutions like the government should not play their part but that we play ours too.
It is time to stand up and be the change we want to see. #StopPovertyInSA.