ALAS, it’s true.
Money makes the world go round and much more lovely lolly is the key to making the South Coast really come alive so that ALL its citizens can thrive.
In a perfect world, money would be obsolete and we could all live off goodwill, but man was just created too ‘imperfect’.
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Heck, look what happened ‘in the beginning’ when poor old Adam was conned by Eve into noshing an apple (or something). We have been merrily sinning along ever since.
However, it’s not as simple as attracting more flush tourists, it’s not just about creating more ‘jobs’ at existing businesses… it’s about thinking out the box to help NEW players to get a sniff at being their own boss.
In a nutshell, we need those who have traditionally been the ’employees’ to become ’employers’. We don’t need more ‘baases’, we do need new ‘obasi’ (iSizulu for ‘baas’).
Therefore, the South Coast Herald and its sister, iSizulu newspaper Ugu Eyethu have formed a partnership with the Ugu Association of Business run by the dynamic Reverend Thanda Ncane to help achieve the latter.
We kicked off recently with the first of what we hope will be many workshops to promote the ‘power of the press’ with a view to helping budding entrepreneurs.
Sadly, our debut workshop wasn’t all plain sailing as electricity points at an Mtwalume community hall had been stolen and a Power Point presentation turned into ‘just winging it’.
However, we still managed to get the message across and even encouraged about 100 people to become ‘citizen journalists’ by sending us stories and photographs (via their cell phones) about what’s up in their ‘hood.
Really exciting was an idea first mooted in this column many moons ago which now seems to be gaining some traction: An open-air, seaside food market somewhere between Mtwalume and Hibberdene.
Think of it: Chilling under a thatch umbrella after purchasing a glass of sauvignon blanc from the bar in the centre, munching freshly caught and braaied crayfish from one of a variety of mini stalls on the perimeter, add some calamari or freshly caught fish (dare we hope for shad?) from other stalls… all run by local mini restaurateurs.
With the right planning, co-operation between all players (Wildlife, provincial and local government entities in particular), it might just work.
It’s early days yet, but the Reverend Ncane and Butthead are determined to give it a go.
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