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Windhoek, Namibia
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After 5 years of study, the big audit firms wouldn't take me. With a newborn at home, I started on an N$1,000 internship.
Now kids aged 9-15 in Windhoek will strip and rebuild a real go-kart. Please back them 👇
Mechanic or driver? 🔧🏁
@UnicefNamibia @StellenboschUni
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Your child's report card is your report card. Failing kids usually come from busy homes, not bad schools.
I started on a N$1,000 internship with a newborn at home. School fees aren't parenting.
Ch 3 of The Graduate, paperback + Kindle below.
Agree or disagree? One word.
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Ch 3 quotes teacher Rebecca Baldwin: "Your child's education is YOUR education. Their marks reflect your guidance, not your pride."
Photo: Bright Kwame Ayisi, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Top of the class and clueless about life? That isn't success. It's well-dressed memorising.
I topped my class 3 years running, then barely qualified for UNAM. The marks never taught me who I was.
Hook 2/12 from The Graduate (paperback + Kindle below).
Pass or understand?
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Namibia's 2023 Census put youth unemployment at 44.4% (NSA): nsa.org.na/wp-content/upload…
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Your degree is a receipt, not a skill. Most graduates paid for paper and called it education.
I studied 5 years, forgot over half by graduation, then started on an N$1,000 internship.
Hook 1/12 from The Graduate (paperback + Kindle below).
Receipt or skill: what did you get?
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Not just me: Namibia's 2023 Census counted 23,669 unemployed people with tertiary education (NSA): nsa.org.na/wp-content/upload…
After 5 years of study, no big firm would hire me. I learned my job on an N$1,000 internship, by doing it.
Our first project: kids aged 9-15 in Windhoek take a real go-kart apart and rebuild it.
The donation page is now live and verified. Link below.
Mechanic 🔧 or driver 🏁?
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The book behind it, The Graduate:
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Source, N$250/child kart outing: gokartwindhoek.com/Events/ev…
Two years after graduating, my life was work and going out. I had a degree but no purpose.
The last two chapters of The Graduate are the point of it all: education isn't just for a job or money. It's to find your calling and lift your family and community.
Job or purpose?
The point of education, from the last two chapters of The Graduate. @IUM_Namibia @DBE_SA what would you add for young graduates?
Chapters 11 and 12 of The Graduate: Think About Thinking.
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Source: 44.4% youth unemployment, NSA 2023 Census Labour Force Report: nsa.org.na/wp-content/upload…
It took me 9 years and 3 lost drafts to write The Graduate. After 5 years of study, nobody told me what comes after the degree.
12 chapters on study, friends, careers, your first salary and life.
@NUST_Namibia @UNESCOWindhoek
What helps you most: study, career or money?
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Source: Namibia Statistics Agency, unemployed people with tertiary education went from ~11,900 (LFS 2018) to 23,669 (2023 Census): nsa.org.na/wp-content/upload…
Two years into my first job, it was work, party, repeat. Books turned me around.
Ch 12 of The Graduate: read a small book an hour a day for 66 days and it sticks.
Only 32% of SA adults read books more than once a week.
@nalibaliSA @bookdash
Read a book this month? Yes or no?
Get The Graduate:
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Paperback: a.co/d/0bYFf71r
Source: National Reading Survey 2023 (Nal'ibali & partners), 32% of SA adults frequently read books: readingbarometersa.org/syste…
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Why: 44.4% of Namibians aged 15-34 are unemployed (NSA, 2023 Census): nsa.org.na/wp-content/upload…
"I asked my business mathematics professor to write me a testimonial for an internship application." (Ch 10)
Only 21% of SA university students often talk to a lecturer about their career plans.
Be the 1 in 5.
@UFSweb @Makerere
Office hours: yes or no? #TheGraduate
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Source: University of the Free State, SASSE Annual Report 2015: in the 2014 survey of 12,306 students at 9 SA universities, only 21% often or very often discussed career plans with a lecturer. ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprov…
"Not having a smartphone has helped." (Ch 9)
South Africans online average 3h36m a day on social media, 1.5x the global average. That's 25+ hours a week.
Feed your goal, not your feed.
@StellenboschUni @UNICEFAfrica
Your screen time yesterday? Just the number. #TheGraduate
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Source: DataReportal, Digital 2025: South Africa (via Meltwater): SA internet users average 3h36m a day on social media vs 2h21m globally. meltwater.com/en/blog/2025-s…