In 1998, Thabo Mbeki then the deputy president of South Africa argued the following in Parliament that; “material conditions …have divided our country into two nations, the one black, and the other white. … [The latter] is relatively prosperous and has ready access to a developed economic, physical, educational, communication and other infrastructure…The second, and larger, nation of South Africa is black and poor, [and] lives under conditions of a grossly underdeveloped infrastructure…Neither are we becoming one nation. ….Unlike the German people [after unification in 1990] we have not made the extra effort to generate the material resources we have to invest to change the condition of the black poor more rapidly than is possible if we depend solely on severely limited public funds, whose volume is governed by the need to maintain certain macroeconomic balances and the impact of a growing economy.” (Mbeki, 1998)
More than a decade later not much has changed. Government has created vehicles that we can use to help ourselves.
As young black professionals and Kasi-Initiatives founders we stand up and say its time:
- To help our Government in tackling the problems that we face as nation.
- To help ourselves and fellow countrymen in achieving greatness and
- To formulate solutions to the problems we know too well.
- To be active citizen who partake in the NPC National Development Plan
By bringing forth sustainable initiatives that will transform our townships into economic power hubs and help reduce poverty and develop historically black areas by our own, who understand our problems.
In response to the stand up and recognizing that townships will benefit from a structure that allowed township-benefit initiatives to incubate their path breaking new ideas before taking on the rigors of incorporation – Kasi-Initiatives was formulated.
Kasi-Initiatives will enable individuals and groups (both private and public), working together, to create and invest in sustainable initiatives that will benefit townships.
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