HOD's speech at Graduation Ceremony - KwaZulu-Natal ...

I wish to advance an argument for a different choice of
the characterized by an imagery of a sleek streamlined
train, not an expensive car, making its way through a
diverse and abundant landscape. I urge you to choose
the future characterized by unity in diversity, where
poverty declines, a South Africa where the population
and prosperity grows, where improved learning outcomes
in the schooling system secures a brighter future for all
our children, where the GDP grows above average, we
choose the future where the provincial and national skills
base feels the benefit of better teaching and learning,
where more than two thirds of the national work force is
employed by SMMES and joblessness is eliminated
completely, where South Africa our beloved land
becomes a preferred technology partner to the rest of the
world producing many innovations including those in the
area of fuel cell technology, where through education
South Africa continues to play a key role in sustainable
development of technology as means of alleviating
poverty, where the African Union draws strength from
multilateralism, where South Africa enjoys a period of
long awaited growth and the one superpower gives way
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