By: Gcobani Qambela: Where I will be when the Alchemy calls me in 2020?

By: Gcobani Qambela

This day will start as the most perfect day. I will wake up at 6am as usual. There will be a little blue bird on my window as I slide open the curtains to allow the sunlight to come in. My two kids, a little girl, with a big brother will be on holiday at their grandparents in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (for it would be school holidays).

I will go for my morning jog, and when I get back. I will get ready to go to work, where I serve as the Minister of Social Development in South Africa. I will as part of environmentally friendly routine, cycle/walk to work (depending on the proximity).

I will get to work to read my e-mails to find out about the succesfull sports and academic programmes that the department has intitiated to get the children off crime and other risky behavious and to get them interested in sport, indiginous games, youth choirs, etc.

I will in the course of the day visit various schools and townships (unannounced) to check for corruption and fraud. Those that are found red-handed are fired on the spot.

I will be impressed to see the various gardening projects we started in the townships being succesfully implemented; I will further be impressed all the people with adequate access to water services, gabbage removal.

I will further be touched on my way back from the township to see the high walls in the suburbs having essentially dissapeared... people not fearing each ohter, black people laughing with white people, indian people dancing with coloureds etc.

I will get back to work after luchtime and start reading the daily newspaper, the headline will read "school boys pencil missing" which will the most serious crime occuring in South Africa. The newspaper will praise the success of the government in successfully eradicating serious crime.

I will threafter call other African departments of social development in Africa, and will be happy to find out that regional integration between ALL of Africa's 53 states would have been concluded and that Africans will be able to travel freely between other African countries without suffering any prejudice or xenophobic attacks.

This is because ALL the African countries would be under democratic rule and hence there would be sufficient jobs for everyone. For instance I will be happy to hear that the Congo's coltan researves are nationalised and put back into the infrastructurer.

I will golater on in the day and reflect on the day's events and reflect on the days events and know that I am changing both young and old peoples lives as the Minister of Social Development, through the various feeding schemes that I started, by helping to provide quality education for youth, for re-orientating the youth away from sex and other high risk behaviours, and more towards education and sport.

This will be domonstrated by the record breaking matric results for the year, where in a historic moment, all the youth will will pass their matric examinations and qualify for university entrance requirements.

And that is what I will be doing everyday of my life, helping develop South Africa's popopulation (especially the youth), and then watching them soar. And I will satisfied.

I will get the call from the Alchemy, when I am about to depart for the Province of the Free State to check up on the programs that we also will be running there - and I will be devastated o hear about the food security issue in Tokyo - But I will be satisfied in that we as South Africa would be able to help for we had gone thorugh a number of food security issues....