Ml Muhammad Bham | mbham@radioislam.co.za
14 June 2023 | 19:00 CAT
2 min read

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The highly anticipated Achievers Walk will once again take place this month.

This year is a special occasion as the founder of the Supreme Cadets Institute, together with its patrons, pillars, rangers, and cadets, will honour the late patron, principal sponsor and loyal supporter, and ANC stalwart Advocate Tiego Moseneke.

Speaking to Radio Islam International, his wife and founder of the Institute, Koketso Moseneke, said they established a cadet programme in 2016 to encourage education among young people as South Africa has a high drop-out rate of children who don’t make it to Matric.

The Achievers Walk is to encourage studying, to make education fashionable, to help children choose positively by making the right choices, making choices that are going to benefit them and the community in future during the surge of violence and drug abuse and all sorts of wrong things that happened in the township.

Participants in the walk include academic graduates who come in their academic regalia and professionals like healthcare workers, police, the army, pilots, and even chefs.

“You can be anything that you choose to be if you make positive choices, and you at least go through school.”

“Not everyone can get a PhD, but everyone can make a positive decision to enhance ourselves and to enhance our communities,” Moseneke said.

This year’s theme for The Achievers Walk is “Be Good. Do Good.” which resonates with the towns around South Africa where children see drug lords being successful. They think that success is going to depend on whether they can sell drugs at the street corners; children go into prostitution because young girls think that is the fastest way to make money, so the theme is saying to them: “Let’s make positive choices by being good, being kind and doing good.”

Listen to the full interview on Sabahul Muslim with Sulaimaan Ravat here.