Many people who have degrees and good jobs are doing nothing to develop our continent.
A degree that leads a graduate down the path of materialism and selfishness is useless.
It is not enough to obtain a degree and earn a good salary.
Education is meant to empower the sons and daughters of this beautiful continent.
Once they are educated, it is their responsibility to invest in Africa’s development.
Our engineers need to construct buildings that will make this continent better.
Doctors must use their knowledge to keep our people healthy.
Lawyers must work tirelessly to ensure justice is served and human rights are protected.
We can no longer have graduates who only care about themselves and forget about the rest of our people.
Everything we do must be for the greater good of this continent, otherwise we are useless.
We must celebrate graduates, but we cannot honour them simply because they have degrees.
Unless something changes, we will continue praising useless graduates.
Jacobeth Makala, Bronkhorstspruit
