Dear Madame Angela Thokozile Didiza

Please see the following letter drafted for the honourable president that I would like to share with you too as the minister who could assist in providing the Solution for South Africa apart from Covid 19 - the economy future plan

Dear Mr President,

It is now 1:40 in the morning as I write this letter to you but I have to get this message out.
I watched a movie called Code 8 and it bothered me. It’s about a young man looking to crime to survive in a city that has lost all morals and crime pays 5 x as much and helps him get much needed medical attention for his mother at which point its too late anyway and his mother dies and he turns himself into the police. It’s an American movie but I felt it is telling the story of South Africa and it broke my heart.

Trevor Noah in his book Born a Crime wrote:
“The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn’t discriminate.”

and I actually received this book as a gift from one of my USA clients who said it helped her understand the South Africa she saw outside the fancy buildings so I read it and my heart went out to the average South African in terms of how hard life is for the average South African.
I have spent much time in Soweto and Diepsloot and Nigel where I served as a Miss Earth regional finalist and I have also worked closely with an Organisation called Ikageng Itireleng in Soweto in an education and literacy coalition through the Methodist ministry of South Africa and the Church of Scientology South Africa which supplied study technology which can help anyone at any literacy level find out what stopped them understanding and correct and become completely literate and in control of the their education. I was the lead fundraiser for the project. We soon realised one of the main stumbling blocks in education is proper nutrition and we had to solve this before even embarking on the literacy program as a starving child can’t concentrate to learn anything.
I spent 2 years volunteering for the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals and saw that poverty and fear lead to a lot of drinking and animal abuse amidst other problems of domestic violence and drug addiction.
I have worked in the tourism industry for many years now and my guests ask me challenging questions like “Why are people so poor?” “What is the main industry of South Africa that could employ people here?” “How bad is AIDS here?” “Why is there not more foreign investment as there is so much opportunity for development of markets here?” Why is there crime in South Africa?” Do black people and white people hate each other?” “Where did Apartheid come from?” “Why do I have a fancy hotel and all the shops are fancy but I don’t see how it fits with or serves the Townships and the areas we drive through to get to Pilanesberg.”
I try my best to answer and sometimes feel like its problems we inherited from centuries ago and its not my fault - but it is my problem. I live in a nice suburb and a squatter camp has just started growing about 2km from my house. At night I get a sore throat from breathing in the smoke from whatever people are burning to keep warm. I drive past at least 20 beggars a day and see that half of them look young and fit yet they are not working. These are problems you know too well Mr. President.
I understand South Africa as I have had the secret privilege of being treated as a tourist in South Africa. When I go around with my European and American clients people tell different stories, welcome us into their homes and show us their lives. I am young enough that I missed Apartheid entirely and I went to school with every major ethnic group we have in this country. Also through the various church communities I am part of – our common fellowship transends colour and creed and I have diverse friends.
A saying I came across tells the historical problem South Africa is still trying to solve: “In the beginning when the white man came to Africa he had the bible and the Africans had the land, then the white man taught the African to close his eyes and pray and when he finished and opened his eyes the white man had all the land and the African had the bible.”
So I even understand Malema and all his motivation for land being taken away and distributed “fairly” and I say this in inverted commas as it won’t be fair because even who he chooses to distribute it to will be a matter of favouritism depending on who is advantageous for him to keep on his side.

I had the privilege and discomfort of taking an extremely racist Canadian Indian man on a tour who told me all about what Britain did to India and how he hated all white people for the arrogance towards other nations and cultures. I also had the unfortunate gift of my father dying when I was 28 and being the only child inheriting his business which at the time employed 12 people. I was immediately met with hatred for being the boss’s daughter, sexism and ageism as women and also anyone below 40 years old is not welcome in the printing industry. I also nearly got kicked out of residence at an Afrikaans university for speaking English and being English as I was not welcome there because there is still hatred since the boer war. I actually come from two generations of “English” speakers marrying “Afrikaans” speakers which is extremely frowned upon in white circles. I couldn’t believe it was an issue. I consider myself to be fluent in both languages. I then realised why cousins I met there did not ever return my invitations and also why extended family never invited us over. They saw us as mixed breeds and wanted nothing to do with us. So I do understand discrimination well. This “ism” exists everywhere in the whole world and not just South Africa. We have all done stuff to each other and all been hurt by somebody’s judgement.
So Mr. President I want to share some conversations, some facts and some practical philosophy that shifted my paradigm to see the solution to South Africa clear as daylight.
I was listening to a video broadcast by a famous doctor in the USA who was going into how COVID-19 came about through lack of understanding of biology and nature. Please watch it https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4729&v=5RAtFBvKrVw

He explained how townships will breed their own viruses because of the unhealthy environment and it made me realise the real crime done in the past was to divorce people from the nature in South Africa which is the heritage of Africa and also its wealth not in terms of ownership but in terms of practicing an age old successful way of life. Townships breed other diseases which are social diseases such as poverty mindset, unwanted pregnancies, drug abuse etc. The township is an unnatural thing.
I love nature which is why I choose to live in South Africa. I have studied a degree in Natural sciences and my studies brought me across the path of farmers and farming. I ended up specialising on the wildlife side of tourism which is also a type of farming in way. One of the textbooks I had to study is Signs of the Wild by Clive Walker which says “the white man only has any faintest understanding of wildlife in Southern Africa because of the wealth of knowledge of the black man he was able to tap into and the black man’s knowledge of the bush is far superior to any white man no matter how learned. Unfortunately the black man does not see the value in this knowledge and doesn’t see how far advanced he is and looks down at this knowledge as being primative.”

On Wild Earth the online safaris https://www.andbeyond.com/bringing-africa-home/wildwatch-live/?fbclid=IwAR0nZERjOK16E-UBlax_dW69MWQ7ZHronhZ_J0H20I2OjxVFKUtSz-7Uag4 I even laughed as two highly qualified rangers spent the whole day trying to pinpoint and locate a roaring lion whereas the tracker was able to pinpoint its location in 20 minutes and the two white rangers said they are always frustrated no matter how much time they spend they will never learn this while any number of black South Africans who have grown up in the bush would find the lion blindfolded every time.
White people are good at turning skills and knowledge into a profit-making business but they are not good at understanding the fabric of life itself and why it does what it does. They have in the past taken without understanding what they were taking and this was wrong but to this day we still have inherited the colonial viewpoint only because it was better recorded than the African viewpoint therefore spread more widely through education and advertised more. Not because it was better or stronger.
Black people must stop feeling inferior. It is a fake condition. Also black people must stop blaming white Afrikaners for Apartheid as they did not create it.
Fact from historical research of LRH of why all great nations were conquered eventually
FOR ANY CONFLICT TO REMAIN UNRESOLVED; A THIRD PARTY MUST BE PRESENT AND UNKNOWN (HIDDEN FROM VIEW OF THE TWO FIGHTING PARTIES) CONSTANTLY CREATING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN TWO PARTIES WHO SEEM TO BE IN CONFLICT.
Here you have Apartheid. The third party was Britain. They created hate and animosity between black and white who were actually working in harmony before that so that they could gain access to the gold and diamonds of South Africa while blacks and Afrikaaners were distracted with fighting. Divide and conquer is an age old strategy that is still in use due to its effectiveness.

“Black people are scared to use anything white people created because they might lose their blackness” An actual comment from my 26 year old Tswana assistant. This is also not workable because it is cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face. I have even heard people saying black people must create their own science. Science may have been researched by other ethnic groups but it is based on the laws of nature which only GOD could create. Its irrelevant who discovered it. It is relevant that it can help us achieve a better quality of life. Newton who was responsible for discovering the three basic laws that the whole subject of physics is based on said “I am only able to great because I stand on the shoulders of giants.” If each person has to re-invent the wheel for himself progress as a species is doomed.
A similar analogy is the USA measurement system of yards and inches and American spelling of English that is so different. They hated the British from their civil war and left Britain as they were frustrated and so they refused to keep any workable technology of them, now their whole country has to suffer with a non decimal system that is unpractical just to prove they can also do it. And did the British even care – No.
The Nation of Islam is an African American movement born from the need to help American slaves get out of poverty. They are highly ethical and community based. Their leader and founder had the following vision:
“The black man is like a caged lion. He is ferocious and strong. White men put him in the cage, however a white man holds the key to opening the cage and that key is knowledge and skills and if the black man can learn from the white man he can be Free.”
A reverend from the Nation of Islam was able to get the Bloods and Crypts (the infamous gangs of Los Angeles) to make a truce with each other using a workable technology that was not developed by him but that only he could apply and get results with in his community. Here is the footage about that https://www.scientology.tv/series/voices-for-humanity/minister-tony-muhammad.html

Here is another fact that can shed a different light:
IF ONE KNOWS AND UNDERSTANDS THE TECHNOLOGY OF SOMETHING HE CANNOT BE THE ADVERSE EFFECT OF THAT TECHNOLOGY.
Look at the superior ability of African people to master 5 or 6 languages. Is communication a problem in Africa? – No. Even the beggars on the side of the road have cellphones. I have guests from the USA and Canada who are in total awe that people here have real conversations with them. They say in their country people don’t even greet you at the counter of the shop.
Recently my husband and I spent a night at an Airbnb on our way back from the coast. It was a farm stay. The man had three large vicious dogs as he feared for his life at night from people wanting to take his land through farm murders. He had to call them away so we could go inside. This man spends about 50 hours a month training start up farmers but he said its only the women that listen to him. Only the women run co-op is a little bit profitable. The other farms assigned to him to be trained are more interested in getting back hand deals of backhand deals where some rich guy buys the farm and puts a buddy in charge who actually doesn’t even live on the farm and then their cows got sick and some died. Its such a tragedy. This farmer said he wishes his farm staff were afforded the opportunity to own a little piece of land and start farming it and use what he has taught them as they would succeed instead of some rich uninterested city slicker. The point of this is this farmer is willing to train and wants people to learn how to farm and wants to see farming succeed. He was invited to live in Paraguay and Australia who want South African farmers as they know they are good and they also know the real wealth of a nation lies in if that nation could be sufficiently fed on its own resources and not have to import.

WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE SOLUTION FOR AFRICA.
Dear Mr. President – it is obvious land is a contentious issue but fixing the wrong of the past the wrong way will only bring grief and more poverty.
IN CHARITY – THE ITEM BEING GIVEN TO THE “POOR” PERSON IS CHEAPENED IS BY THE RECEIVER’S OWN SENSE OF SHAME THAT HE COULD NOT EARN IT HIMSELF”
If land is taken and given away it will not be farmed well, and it will probably become barren and infertile mainly because the receiver knows he doesn’t deserve it. Charity is a terrible thing. The more you hand out to people the more you need to hand out to them as even the blanket you give the freezing cold beggar will be in tatters in the street in a few weeks. He cannot look after even one thing as he feels he deserves nothing. People’s self-image will always bring them back in line with what they think they deserve. Even lotto winners often are more broke than before they won the lottery. It takes leadership to own and control things.
I had a Ukranian guest who told me what life in Communist USSR was like. (I am not getting into politics here but it’s another analogy)
She said it was terrible. They learned the best science maths and physics available, everyone had a job, everyone had food and a roof over their heads. All the children went to school and no one was jealous as they all had old furniture and old houses and the same clothes. The old people got paid a pension by the government when they were old and there were basic hospitals.
I said to her “That sounds pretty amazing to me – what was so terrible about it?”
Then she said, even if you worked your whole life you owned nothing, you had nothing to give to your children when you died. You could not choose your work, you were given a work based on what the government needed. You were not allowed to leave the country. You were not allowed to practice any religion. You were not allowed to learn history or anything that would make you think rebellious thoughts against the government. Your work hours could be increased at any time from the government. The government told you that it was everything and you were nothing. You sat on old furniture and could not even paint your house or buy a new piece of furniture if you got tired of it, it was provided to you by the government and would be there for many generations and it looked exactly like everyone else’s. You could not farm the land for yourself as everything even the land belonged to the government and they could move you somewhere else without your permission if they needed that land for something else. Basically you were an object to serve the government and they owned your life and you had to do everything they said or they could cut you off. Everyone was forced to work hard but you could not see the fruits of your labour.

But even this society had to work to produce enough produce to feed itself. If South Africa became communist it would fail because there are too many people producing nothing and not enough planning and training to decide what jobs everyone would need to do so the result would be starvation for all and violence.
Another FACT (LRH)
THERE ARE FOUR CONDITIONS OF EXCHANGE:
1: NO EXCHANGE – SOMETHING IS TAKEN BUT NOTHING IS GIVEN IN EXCHANGE
2: POOR EXCHANGE – SOMETHING IS TAKEN BUT ONLY A SMALL AMOUNT NOT ADEQUATE TO THE VALUE IS EXHANGED BACK. THIS IS ALSO CALLED CRIMINAL EXCHANGE EG. A WATCH IS SOLD FOR R5000 BUT IT HAS NO COGS OR LEVERS INSIDE SO IT CAN’T POSSIBLY TELL THE TIME
3: FAIR EXCHANGE - SOMETHING IS GIVEN AND SOMETHING IS EXCHANGED IN EQUAL VALUE TO WHAT WAS GIVEN. MOST BUSINESS OPERATES ON THIS
4: EXCHANGE IN ABUNDANCE -SOMETHING IS GIVEN AND THE EXCHANGE IS SLIGHTLY MORE THAN THE VALUE FOR EXAMPLE A SHOE SHINE THAT IS FAST AND DONE WITH A SMILE BY A MAN IN A NEAT SUIT WHILE THE CUSTOMER SITS IN A COMFORTABLE CHAIR.
THIS TYPE OF EXCHANGE GENERATES MORE GOOD WILL AND FUTURE BUSINESS AND IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF ALL THE LEVELS OF EXCHANGE AND IS THE TRUE PATH TO WEALTH.
PEOPLE HAVE TO PRODUCE SOMETHING OF VALUE WHICH CAN BE EXCHANGED FOR MONEY, SUPPORT, FOOD GOODWILL ETC. NO EXCHANGE ONLY CREATES MORE AND MORE POVERTY.

Mr. President you are blessed with having resources here that other countries only dream of:
• A young strong population
• Fertile farmable land
• Skilled Labour that is willing teach
• An infrastructure that works and is already built
• A country grounded in various spiritual disciplines that unite people beyond colour
People need to work to eat. Put the people to work.
South Africa has been functioning on the old British mining model for too long and we are poised for being the first nation in Africa to make the transition from a mining economy to other type of economy.
A Vision came to me this morning as I grappled with Trevor Noah’s challenge of not giving people a fish or even teaching them to fish but helping them find where on earth you get a fishing rod. The vehicle to economic transformation has been missing. As the rest of the world chases mechanisation and technology Africa is at the unique crossroads to be the one place where people can get away from the screen and get back in touch with nature and our mother who birthed us. Technology is not abad thing – it can solve many problems but when we become divorced from nature we become sick and drained of life energy. This has happened in the West already.
The world can have ten million machines but who will feed its population? The world can print money at a mile a minute but what will that money buy if the people can’t eat nutritious food enough to stay healthy enough to use the technology. Technology will stand around and be useless without humans driving it and making it work. Technology has no heart and soul that cares or which can create anything. It is only a tool to solve problems.
Dear Mr. President the solution to Africa is FARMING. It requires intensive manual labour and it will allow people to get back to the land that will create health and better living circumstances. The people can farm commercially and keep a certain percentage to feed their own family and enter a profit share partnership with existing knowledgeable farmers and the money the generate will create wealth which can be used to buy land which the people will know they deserve and they will have the fishing rod and be able to farm the land they own to create generational wealth. It will increase the foreign investment in South Africa and make our currency more strong as many countries cannot farm tasty nutritious food as they have destroyed their soils already.
African people who already understand nature so well, can use that knowledge, leave the township and turn to tourism or agriculture and flourish. It will also mend the wounds of apartheid as people are only racist when they feel threatened. If everyone can make it together we will put that history well and truly behind us. We already showed ourselves we could do it in the 2010 world cup.
Mr. President, there are many grassroots groups that will jump at your call to assist in this project if you announced it who have learned how to manage start ups successfully and who have the experience required to make it work. I know of several groups and I am only one person. Imagine how many there are. South Africans are tenacious and spirit of Ubuntu is amongst us.
Mr President, I am happy to write up a plan of how this could be done and I would love to discuss this further. I am not looking for a job, I have 4 of my own businesses but I want to see the South Africa I know we can be.
Mr President I urge you to use the Covid- 19 as an opportunity to restructure our economy as the old model is well in its way to the grave. We are a great nation hidden under a shadow of its past. Please use your people of South Africa to create a future we can all share in joyfully. I want to be part of the solution and many share my feelings. I pray to God guide our leaders everyday.
Thank you for what you do Mr. President and the ministers who serve you.
Sincerely,
Janine