A letter from a friend in Cuba

Goodman

Even after this long, im pained still at what I had read on the email
you'd sent me. Just before leaving Cuba for home, Dumisani said something
that really touched me: that in his life he has made no mistake, except
only the one he did not learn from. Youngman, it is no time to look down
at yourself, it is time to find courage, to find purpose in yourself
because yes for even you, there is still hope.

Food and agricultural sciences are your passion and this I can attest to.
The problem maybe is in the way you are approaching the dream you have,
how then that you consider another routes such as doing a B.Ed degree and
in it specialize with food and agricultural sciences. Word has it that
there is an aboundance of bursaries available for teaching. Also, many an
agricultural school are closing down due to lack of educators.

In making a decision as to where lies your passion, it is key to be honest
and very realistic with yourself brother, to learn from where you have
gone wrong and realise that you are a black young. The life for a black
southafrican is a very trivial one- all he is to attaine is all he's to
sweat for and for him time is factor. You cannot continue relaxing
blackchild, what your hands find to do is what you work on. The world is
too busy that the one who says it cannot be done will be interupted by the
one doing it.

I hope that both your mother and your brother are well still. I wish them
both good health and a peaceful life. I know that if there is any reason
to stand up again and challenge this life once more, it is them two. We
love and believe in you still brother.

Kind regards
Thoabala