After over two decades South Africans live in a multi race community however, poverty and inequality are wide spread. South Africa's educational system alone is plagued by inequality,only until recently government has tried to create equality within school systems. Do you think government may be too late?

Many students at private institutions has access to world class information and technological equipment and students from state institutions in particularly poor black communities suffer from a lack of resources and over crowding. This may not seem relevant now but without many South Africans realizing it, this situation fuels the already crippled unemployment rate in South Africa. 

Despite South Africa being part of the BRICS emerging economic power. South Africa is still battling low growth and a weakening currency. 

Innovation is crucial in South Africa and I know there are a lot more different methods to be used but Graphic Communication speaks volumes! People tend to respond more to new initiatives if they can visualise the solution. Hence, government needs to think about how they are going to alleviate poverty and inequality and also using a form of graphic communication to deliver their solutions or plans to South Africa. 

Talk is cheap! It is in fact time to be a maker and doer of things. Litha Soyizwapi, this is someone who is very inspiring and motivational and he in fact has developed three (3) very crucial pointers to formulate his way to success: 

1. Learn the basics of everything you do because without the foundation you will never be able to build a solid well structured entity.
2. Learn by doing, one needs to have practical skills in order for you to build on your foundation.
3. Learn by applying your knowledge, the more you apply what you know the more you learn about the pros and cons.

Therefore, if government wants to alleviate poverty and inequality they need to apply Mr Soyizwapi's three pointers with of cause the other initiatives they have set aside and incorporate graphical communication to capture and show South Africa about their plans. 

Robyn Ruiters

Dear Robyn, I would like to take you back to Mr Mageni's clip at the precise moment where he explained the case of the donkey cart and how this particular case, after investigation made visible, a much larger societal challenge. With meticulous precision, you were able to capture that precise essence here in your blog post in terms of education in our country. I wish to congratulate you on a neat piece of work. Well done and please continue to entice us with your research and innovative thoughts on the matter at hand. Great work, keep it up! :)

PUMA 314 Students, if Robyn struck a cord with you and you are interested in her topic, encourage her and engage with her to find real solutions that could bring about big change towards the greater good, i.e. well educated citizens in our beautiful country!

Fellow student, congratulations on your first blog post!
And I want to compliment you on it- you took South African realities as examples and did additional research on it. Further you also made recommendations on how to solve these challenges faced by South Africa.
Well done.

Dear Robyn. well done with with your first blog entry. I love how you were able to capture challenges in the education system, as well as being able to identify solutions to over come it. Well done!

Fellow students and Lecturer, I really appreciate that you took the time to read through my blog and leave a comment, your feed back and positivism is really appreciated.

Miss Ruiters, your blog entry is a reminder of how important education is and if the issue of poverty is not fixed, we will be having a problem with high unemployment rates. Communication is indeed the tool to greatness. I'm looking forward to reading your next blog.