Pierre van Rooyen Offers Wealth Creation Plan for South Africa’s Unemployed

Pierre van Rooyen, author of Saturdays Are Gold, has written a column for Times LIVE in which he details his ideas for wealth creation among South Africa’s unemployed.

Van Rooyen’s concept melds entrepreneurship with kibbutz-style collective projects and has, at its heart, the interests of individual communities.

One of the best things I ever did was spend the royalties I received from my first novel on sending a matriculant to the teachers’ training college in Eshowe.

Themba Nguni told me he couldn’t believe how good the Afrikaner lecturers were to the students, treating them as if they were their own sons. Themba had been born out of wedlock and didn’t have a father. So he adopted me as his father.

He became a high school teacher in Newcastle, used his salary to enrol at UNISA and majored in maths and science.

• Complete column: Times LIVE

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• Saturdays Are Gold by Pierre van Rooyen
  EAN: 9781431403783
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