FAILURE IS NOT AN END BUT A MEANS TO SUCCESS: MICHAEL JORDAN

 Today, we look at Michael Jordan, 60, as a basketball icon. Yet you can no believe how many times he has failed in his sports career. 

GIVE IT A TRY: ALIKO DANGOTE

By Steve Govati

Graduates are gradually occupying world’s space. Malawi is not an exceptional as it adds at least 2500 graduates every year. However, most alumni are waiting for narrow working base which is failing to employ them all. This is a frustrating development to the country. 

It was true to life of Aliko Dangote who graduated from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University at the age of 21. But the narrow industry base could not offer his office.  

Dangote shortly got US 3000 loan from his uncle to start small entrepreneurship of selling agricultural products like rice, sugar, salt and flour to his native country Nigeria.

After three months, Dangote managed to pay back his loan and develop business chain to develop from small to large grouping; Dangote Group. 

Today, the Dangote Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Africa with international operations in Benin, Ghana, Zambia and Togo.

The group has managed to employ at least 11, 500 people in West Africa.

Aliko Dangote, 60, is one of the richest people in the World with his company the Dangote Group being largest cement and sugar producer in Africa. 

DANGOTE GAVE IT A TRY; WHY CAN’T YOU GIVE A TRY?

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CAN YOU COOK USING PLASTICS?

Today, the nature has been besmirched and devastated for farming, settlement and charcoal and people and animals have lost to the consequences. In order to condense these, Malawi as a country is encouraging use of gas and electricity for cooking. However, there is insufficiency as the cost is above majority of Malawians. Today, my column is at Tsiliza Village in Lilongwe, where Mr. Richard Chipembere is making stoves aiming at saving the environment as they use plastics, charcoal remains, animal bones and green leaves in presence of energy; solar or battery or electricity. He explains in this video.

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He was forced out of his own company: JOBS.

The pain in eyes of Steven Paul Jobs, could have been glimpsed in 1985 when he was forced out of his own company: APPLE. 

That 1955 legendary had a dream of selling apple computers in alliance with Wozniak. The hard to reach dream came to light in 1976 and made millions in selling Wozniak Apple 1. 

The achievement was awesome without a beat of drum on the coming pain in the future. Mr Jobs was forced to left his company. In the losing pain, he began another company NeXT that got popular in it's designing and production. 

It was like a curse to APPLE company as no one can get your blessings, this company suffered the bankruptcy. In 1997 Mr Jobs returned to revive Apple in a phrase "THINK DIFFERENT". 

There are times in life that people might want to get your blessings, just be calm because your blood is your own.

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FAILURE IS NOT AN END BUT A MEANS TO SUCCESS: MICHAEL JORDAN

Today, we look at Michael Jordan, 60, as a basketball icon. Yet you can no believe how many times he has failed in his sports career. 

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According to Talent Development, this is what the icon has said:

“I’ve missed more than 9, 000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I have been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Today, Jordan holds six titles with the Chicago bulls. He is also the owner of Charlotte Hornets.  

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Is it possible to be a billionaire without inheriting your parents worthy?

Like the ego, starting from scratch to the top is very possible.  Today, we bring to you a youngest self-made billionaire, Evan Thomas Spiegel. Spiegel, 32, is a co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.

His name begun changing to billionaire in April 2011 when Spiegel proposed an app with ephemeral messaging as a product design class project. Later that year, according to Forbes, Spiegel worked with fellow Stanford classmates Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown to launch a prototype of this concept called "Pica boo", which they later renamed as Snap chat. The apps popularity evolved that by the end of 2012, Spiegel's Snap chat app had reached 1 million daily active users. 

To be a billionaire today, Spiegel started with idea of developing an app. This app has made him hold a net worth of $5.7 billion. His is the youngest self-made billionaire in the history of the United States.

According to Forbes, Evan Thomas Spiegel was born on 4 June 1990. He is an American (naturalized French in 2018). 

MY LIFE IS A TESTIMONY: KAMDZUMENI

In this video Mr Kamdzumeni is describing how his life is a testimony. Enjoy watching it. Happy watching!

GAUTAM SHANTILAL ADANI: SCHOOL DROP OUT BILLIONAIRE

GautamShantilal Adani, 60, is an Indian billionaire industrialist with a net worth of US$105 billion according to Forbes and $121 billion according to Bloomberg.

Adani is the richest person in Asia and the fourth richest person in the world.

Despite that fact, his feet did not complete university collidors.

According to BBC, he dropped out of Gujarat University after his second year studying bachelor's degree in commerce and begun  his own business.

His dollars blended from his passion as Adani worked as diamond sorter for Mahendra Brothers. His experience attracted a bar of fortune from his brother Mahasukhbhai who trusted his management skills. Later he became a global trader through polyvinyl chloride PVC imports.

According to Moskowitz, Adani established ADANI ENTERPRISES in 1988, the holding company of Adani Group. His business expanded to trading metals, textiles and agro products. Today, the billionaire runs Adani Porta and SEZ (APSEZ), Mundra port, Adani power and Abbot Point Port in Australia and Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.

As of January 2023, Adani is one of the richest people in the world ranking at position 4.

According to Chinmay, Gautam Shantilal Adani was born on 24 June 1962 in a Jain family to Shantilal Adani (father) and Shantaben Adani (mother) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

 

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MAFO: THE ROLLING STONE

By Steve Govati

Everyone wants to be popular, I and you, but what is to be popular? The 2014 "Akazi amapha" hit maker Emmanuel Alfred Kamwendo popularly known as Mafo has described popularity as Ngozi (tragic). 

According to the singer despite that people in music industry are striving for popularity but his idea remains a fact.

Mafo who is in his 30s joined music industry some years back with his song "Akazi ndi Mowa umakonda chaa". The song in 2013 was played in almost every sound box and Malawians shaken their bodies in expressing their emotion towards the hit.

There is no one kick hit in the world, every move reduced hours, and miles to success. According to Mafo patient and focus drove him to his success.

I will always say we better wait to be popular rather than forcing matters. Some music are popular but their singers remain unknown to public, he said.

Mafo with mic voice added that journey to popularity is challenging but he made it.

Today, his intro, madala mafo has merged in lots of songs and promising for more songs. His distinguished voice and code of music has honored his career to the extent that public ascribed him honorable and has been called for multinational shows.

In my music journey, among others, I have managed to hold international shows with international artists like organized family in Cape Town, Mafo said.

Without a second bow to mind, the musician thought teaching might purvey a better future. He then trained as a teacher to have upper potentials in account at same time trying to draw more bars in music.

Mafos bars moved to null and one could wonder of his existence in the industry. After scrutinizing, he realized that there is need to focus on one issue and promised to take his music career to space. 

However, Mafo was quick to point out that lack of concentration has been a factor affecting his career in music. He has also pleaded to the upcoming artists to focus on their daily abilities for them to sail through the industry. 

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MY LIFE IS ENCLOSED IN A PHASE "PATIENCE IS VITAL"

By Steve Govati 

Today, if you ask Stella Chitukula, 26, about her life, she will definitely tell you this: "there is a thin line between struggles and success”. 

According to her, life is enclosed in a phase "patience is vital".

Chitukula is a holder of diploma in Public health, obtained in 2022 at Malawi University of Business and Applied Science (MUBAS) continuing education center. She has been an executive member of a youth organization called Young Women's Agenda that is aiming at empowering youths and women economically since 2018.

According to Chitukula, her patience in executive position pave a way to heaven as she got motivated after tabling with some women tycoons. 

"This helped me to get in touch with many women who are entrepreneurs, like Emmie Kamkweche, who owns a Fashion Shop and a Car Import Company", she said.

According to her, life changed afterwards as she begun figuring out ways in which she can be like Kamkweche. 

“In 2019, I started importing goods from China at a very small scale, it was on and off due to the impact of Covid-19, she said.

Even in zero hope, she kept in her mind that there is a thin line between struggles and success. In 2022 January, with capital of $140 (at least MK120, 000.00) she began importing watches.

“I was importing every month which helped me to accumulate money up to $15 000 (at least MK20 million) by December 2022, she said. 

She added that in 2022 alone she managed to buy digital printing machine worth $4 000 (at least MK5 million), a vehicle for transportation business worth $6 000 (at least MK8 million)”. 

According to Chitukula, she have been facing challenges in business including lack of forex. This challenge made her to shift from importing to exporting such that she is doing every means possible to find ways to have products to be exported outside Malawi. 

Today, Stella Chitukula is running a printing company, Walla City Printers and she is a member of National Small and medium enterprises (NASME).

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How can you explain your journey to success, easy or hard? Watch this video as CHIKONDANO HAWARD is narrating a journey to his dream. 

MEET PETER KANDEU, AN ELECTRICIAN WITHOUT HANDS AND FEET!

By Steve Govati

Have you ever met an electrician with disability: without hands and feet?

This is Peter Kandeu, born from a family of five. He is only a person with disability. To him born like that has been a challenge in life but he has fought a good battle and trained to be an electrician. Today he is qualified electrician and upcoming musician, you can follow his talent at Saube Kandeu MW.

Kandeu appealed for those with disability to be innovative and all Malawians to give opportunities to people like him.

This is what
Kandeu said “We have capabilities, yes we are disabled but we can”.

LAST PORTION OF BATTLING FOR YOURSELF OR DIE IN AWAIT: BAYAN’S LIFE

 By Steve Govati

this story is a continuation, to read first portion click here

"My brother I heard you want to get married, don't try that.
Nowadays, things have changed, your children are your responsibility no one can take care of them unless otherwise. You should rebuild your future to be brighter."

After the counsel, Bayan and his young brother left Ntcheu for Likoma in 2016 to stay with granny of his mother who is now 103 old.

 “We heard that our uncle left MK15 million to my sister Mary to aid our life before got buried in 2014. By then Mary was finalizing his education at Bunda college, we asked her to share at least MK3 million to help us, but she refused saying my father was alive and should take responsibility”, Bayan said.

His granny became responsible for his life including paying school fees. Life was sometimes hard when it came to food as most of the times they survived through tea.

Bayan resumed school as a form three student and his performance led him to head boy.

Despite the progress, food remained a challenge and his young brother was crying to return to Ntcheu.

“It was in 2017, every day he cried for Ntcheu but we had no money for transport and none to help us. Later, some relatives gave us some money and promised that we will never get any help from them even school fees,” he said.

He further said he reported the issue to school where headmaster sought to sponsor him but his relatives stopped the action.

That locked his school and he left for Ntcheu hopelessly.

“I asked my former employer (owner of the restaurant), Mrs Lungu for a job, luckily I was employed as house keeper but at same time I had to attend school”, he said.

“In this world, when you are doing great, some individuals hate it as they love seeing you in hot soup”, this is what Bayan said while facing the heavens.

“In Lungu’s house, someone pit on my bed and things went upside down. And I left for Nachiye where I was staying with my aunt until I wrote MSCE examination at Mcherezezo Secondary school", he said.

Later, Bayan went to Lilongwe where he was working at Tchasi car wash at a salary of MK14, 000 per month.

"It was hard to survive at that price. Then I begun working in deports to source income but things were still hard that I later went home", he narrated.

While in Ntcheu, he applied to be a G4S guard in Blantyre and in February 2018 he started working as guard.

In 2019 he begged an uncle to sponsor his tertiary education so to be an automobile mechanical.

"God was with me and my uncle accepted my request with only single thought. I started studying automobile mechanics at Sochi technical college", he said.

Bayan worked at G4S during nights and went for weekend classes at same time attending his internship during day hours.

"I sat for level 2 examination in 2021. Am now working at God Love People (GLP) Mechanics at Kanjeza in Blantyre”, he narrated.

“I had to fight for my own life to survive because no one was there for me at first. I had to start and some people helped me out of volcano. My upmost gratitude should go to GOD”, Bayan said.

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"FROM HOPELESS VALLEY TO UNIVERSITY STUDENT, KAMANGA"

By Steve Govati

How will I manage to pay school fees? Andaccommodation?" These questions assaulted Andrew Kamanga’s mind after he heard that he had been selected to The Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi.

Kamanga is currently in third year at thecollege, pursuing journalism and media studies. Save Our Souls (SOS) is paying for his accommodation andfees balances.

Andrew Kamanga

He lost his father when he was only four yearsold. Born in 1994, he is the third born in a family of eight.

"I started feeling the pain of my father's death when I grew up as I could see my mother struggling to take care of us. She could wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning, carrying heavy loads of maize and other crops from Nkhata Bay to Mzuzu on foot to sell,” narrates Andrew who did his primary and secondary education in Nkhata Bay.

He adds: “Now that I could see how she was suffering for our sake, I really wanted to pay her back one day. I was convinced the only way I could earn her a good living was through education.”

The hard situations could not let Kamanga to perfect scores rather he got 20 points in the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examinations in 2013. He was not selected to any university college despite several efforts.

"I did not lose hope. I still believed that I was intelligent and that it was only through education I could have a good future. I totally rejected the 20 points I scored as I thought I could do
better than that,” he said.

He resolved to sit again for the MSCE exams but the challenge was school fees as his mother was already struggling to pay for his young brother.

In his pursuit of his dreams, Kamanga joined G4S where he was working as a security guard so that he saves money and go back to school.

"Life was very hard at G4S as people laughed at me. Some could point fingers at me when I passed closer their homes, probably because they did not expect a young person like me to be a guard—a profession so demeaning, associated with old and illiterate people as per
societal perspective,” says Kamanga.

G4S posted the young security guard to Mzuzu SOS Children's Village gate where he worked for about a year. Staff members at SOS encouraged him to go back to school and this energised his longing for education.

After saving enough, Andrew resigned and went back to Form 3 at Katoto Secondary School.

When he was in Form 4, SOS, through their Family Strengthening Programme, identified Kamanga’s family as one of the vulnerable and started paying school fees for him and other family members.

He scored nine points in the 2016 MSCE.

"I was very happy to hear that I was the highest and only one with single digit points at Katoto in 2016. I wanted to challenge SOS because they had promised to continue paying school fees for me if I went to university,” he says.

The fears that troubled Andrew became history as SOS kept their promise; they are paying for accommodation and meals for him and his young brother Brown who is in third year at the same institution, studying Internal Auditing.

"I will forever remain grateful to SOS for the support they have been rendering to my brother and I”.

This is Andrew Kamanga’s story, hope has motivated you somehow. 

"BATTLING FOR YOURSELF OR DIE IN AWAIT: BAYAN’S LIFE"

 

By Steve Govati

"Walking at least two hours to Dombole Secondary school sometimes with empty stomachs from Nachiye village"

FORTUNE BAYAN

“God blessed us with a piece work of roasting maize for porridge, a 50kg bag at MK500. This helped us a lot."

"My brother I heard you want to get married, don't try that. Nowadays, things have changed, your children are your responsibility no one can take care of them unless otherwise. You should rebuild your future to be brighter."

These are keys issues merged in an interview with Fortune Bayan, 28, from Nachiye, Ntcheu.

He was born in a family of four children who sadly lost mother in 2008. Wind flowed and life zipped in challenges especially when his father got married to another woman.

"Life was hard at that time. I was staying with my brother, Gift who was pursuing third year of Secondary education at Dombole and I joined same school in 2010 when I was 16 years old." Bayan said.

As children how did you survive?

"Our father was providing a little like soap. We used to fetch harvest remains in people's gardens and sometimes piece  labor in exchange for maize and sweet potato," he responded.

Bayan added that they used porridge, sometimes roasted maize for dinner. But some relatives broke their house and stole maize flour and other staffs when they were at school.

"We were forced to left for police turn off. And there God blessed us with a piece work of roasting maize for porridge, a 50kg bag at MK500. This helped us a lot", he narrated.

After writing his form four examinations in 2014, Bayan went back to village to stay his grandmother.

"Fortunately, Gift was working at certain bakery in Mphate. It didn't take a while, I found a job at Lungu restaurant at a pay of MK7000 per month. I should mention here that I didn't pass well in Malawi school certificate of education. Sometimes I guessed school it's not my issue then with a salary I was getting I wanted to get married with Emmy Chagaga", Bayan said

Some of his relatives did not accept the marriage idea and Mary, his sister advised him and she said

"My brother I heard you want to get married, don't try that. Nowadays, things have changed, your children are your responsibility no one can take care of them unless otherwise. You should rebuild your future to be brighter."