Mkhonto is a man on a mission for Alexandrians
ALEXANDRA – Our people must wake up and smell the coffee and not blame the government for all that has gone wrong, says Mkhonto.
ActionSA’s Ward 105 candidate in the local government elections has plans for a roadshow in Alexandra to encourage the jobless in the township to ‘wake up and smell the coffee’.
Shadrack ‘Mr Actionair’ Mkhonto, a former long-standing DA PR councillor in the ward, revealed his plans during an interview with Alex News in which he said he had plans to get bona fide Alexandrians to start scraping a living as well in the township streets.
Mkhonto bemoaned the fact that more and more of the township’s folk go hungry when there is some money that can be made in the streets to put food on the table. “I know our people always frown upon such low jobs but when times are tough, the tough get going.
“I would like our people to also wake up and smell the coffee. They should wake up and join their foreign national counterparts in these small business ventures too to irk out a living and not just sit and blame the government for everything that has gone wrong,” Mkhonto said.
The veteran PR councillor said he was disappointed to see many of bona fide Alexandrians not taking part in the local economy in various trades such as bricklaying, spaza shops, hawking in the streets, mending tyres, shoes and clothes, and plaiting hair.
“Our people are so obsessed about gossip and blaming someone for the lack of jobs, taking child grants to make hair do or to buy alcohol, smoking, taking drugs, eyeing boys or girls and discussing useless soapies such as Isibaya, the Queen, Generations, Durban Gen, Imbewu, Skeem Saam, Kaizer Chiefs, Pirates, and Sundowns instead of thinking and planning on ways to make money.
“If you check out Uber, Uber Eats, Scooters Eats, waiters and waitresses, security guards, truck drivers and motor mechanics, you will never find South Africans, instead, they will be blaming foreigners for taking their jobs when all they can do is gossip about soapies and nothing else,” Mkhonto said.
Mkhonto said he was currently in the planning stages for this big road show and once the nitty-gritties were finalised and permission obtained from Metro police, he would embark on the campaign. “My message will be simple – vukuzenzele [wake up and do it for yourself],” he said.
