Born and raised as a black boy in a rural area, I’m just a village boy with an urban mentality.
I hereby write this article as a piece of encouragement to scholars towards their school work.
Failing has risen in recent years among us the scholars. First of all I would like to congratulate everybody that made it to the next grade and the ones that are about to make it, Mostly I would also [like to] thank the scholars from rural areas that made it! Your performance is presentable. [These] are the unfortunate learners that walk as about 20-30 [kilometres] just to reach their perspective schools to be taught. [These] are the learners [without] enough materials such as lack of textbooks , no computer and Internet access! Yet their academic record is marvelous. I wouldn’t like to talk too much about the so called urban kids, I really have no words for us my dear colleagues. When it comes to performance in urban areas, it’s a very disappointing and shameful image to the community. In my own view we are the people with more than enough materials including science labs equipped with enough instruments and computer labs yet our performance is not even presentable.
For most of us is just to be after GTIs , iPhones , Facebook , WhatsApp , clubs , Taxi drivers , Trends and all sort of stuffs , my dear colleagues [these] things we are following will never ever bring us success nor happiness. [These] are the stuffs that won’t help us face the future together, so dear colleagues, let’s not rush for things that won’t sit with us in examination rooms. Let us not be fooled by unnecessary things. I myself never experienced failing in my entire school years but only when I came to Grade 12 that I have realised that life doesn’t come as a full package. Let’s study, study and deliver as the late Abraham Iyambo said.
Ignatius Valombola, is a former learner of the Ella Du Plessis High School in Windhoek and is now the owner of Ododo Clothing & Black Kidd Clothing.