strong unspoken bond between us. It is one of those relationships that hardly requires words.
The love is palpable, the mutual respect is real, and the results are quantitative. He went from a
non-performing student to a top performing student in one week. That thing about Energy being
universal, well, it’s real. Love happens to transmit the highest frequency of all. I get to experience
the truth of this everyday.
Gentlemen of the Takalani Empowerment Project
I’ve been asked by numerous people who follow my writing, “Amanda, what or who inspires you?”
Here in South Africa, it’s the youth! I’d be nothing without them. That word, “ubuntu,” I fully
understand now. Feeling ubuntu through experience is the only way to truly taste its nectar.
I shared the story of Siyabonga with a teacher I recently met when she asked me how I get the
children to behave.
“Oh, wow!” she shrieked. “I’ve never tried that!”
“Yes,” I reply, “when you take stop and praise them, it will startle them. They will be shocked!
They aren’t used to it. Isn’t it that some of them have no one to notice them?”
“Yes, it’s true,” she agrees.
“When you notice them, they will feel respected. Then they will respect you. They will want to
please you. Siya even wrote a paper about how he wants to make Amanda happy.”
She shrieks again, ‘Oh, wow! Oh! Wow!”
“Yes, it is love,” I affirm.