adminA NUMBER of young people, around the world, appear to have lost the desire to perform the tough jobs.
We now have many young people who simply prefer working on the internet to defraud their targets across the globe.
In Africa, the irresistible love for easy money has caught up with many of our young people.
This has led to some joining cults in the hope that they will earn quick money whose origins they don’t even know, or care about.
Some are even prepared to shed blood in their quest for such fantasy riches.
We have read a number of reports of people who killed others, all in the name of fulfilling something, which they had been told by a self-styled prophet, or sangoma, as part of a wild scheme for them to get rich.
Recently, we had the infamous toe-trading business in Harare, which has since been dismissed as fantasy.
While the Ximex Mall hoax is now water under the bridge, it’s sad that there are some who still believe it exists. And, the sad reality about all this, is that some foreign nationals also even believe in it.
On July 6, we carried a story of a young man, who claimed to be a Tanzanian national, who told this publication he came all the way from Dar es Salaam to try and strike gold in this search for ritual money.
He said life was unbearable back home and he needed to sacrifice his toes for money.
Upon learning it was a hoax, he broke into tears and vanished from our newsroom.
It’s both a pity, and disappointing, to note how young people have fallen in love with easy money.
While this case made some sad reading, it’s also a lesson to young people that nothing comes on a silver platter.
Young lads should avoid shortcuts and work hard for the fortune that they are searching for in their lives.
Once you sacrifice body parts for easy money, as was expected by the young Tanzanian man, and many who had bought into this fantasy, you would have pushed yourself into a cult from which you might never come out.
Once this level of desperation creeps in, it will be all gloomy.
While job losses remain a global issue, it’s high time young people from the African continent change their mindset.
It’s high time that many of them embrace the reality that nothing will ever come for free, worse still, from selling one or two of their body parts.
Parents/guardians raising kids should impart this knowledge to ensure we are not raising monsters.
As we have indicated in previous editions of this publication, we still insist that there are no shortcuts to success.
All in all, let’s shun ritual practices, and the fantasy money which comes with all these beliefs, because we know that nothing ever comes on a silver platter.
It’s all about hard work and sweat.
Online Reporter