Youth Focus: How to ensure SA's future is in good hands
Chartered accountant, entrepreneur and investor Mamatsabu Maphike says that guiding today's youth will ensure SA is lead with good governance in the future.
She believes in mentorship and empowerment - practices she's implemented in her business. She says structural challenges still exist in South Africa, preventing young talented professionals from making positive impacts in their communities and in turn, the economy.
Maphike, who initially worked in the investment banking sector, founded an accounting firm that offers growth opportunities to young accountants.
"Thabo Mbeki once famously said South Africa is a country of two economies. That's largely still prevalent in the sense that young black South Africans come from a reality that doesn't necessarily provide all the tools and opportunities to ensure that they can reach their potential and become entrepreneurs. So the system has to acknowledge structural and historical issues are still in place to ensure that we have a South Africa that everybody who has an idea, a concept, a dream or ambition can actually achieve it," she says.
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Maphike believes the youth should be able to identify great leadership and learn from this - saying that the generation of tomorrow must learn from today’s mistakes.
She also urges the youth to capitalize on opportunities.
“With social media, the internet and globalisation - the world is open. We live in a time where even your wildest dream or thought can become a business, a lifestyle, it can actually become something. I would say to the youth of today - don’t be scared of the dreamsinside your head that don’t necessarily make sense. We live in a time where they can become something,” she said.
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