Failure Isn't Final. Harold Mawela

 The Girl Who Ran Toward Destiny By Harold Mawela | From my study in Akasia, Pretoria The jacaranda trees outside my window have shed their purple confetti onto the streets of Akasia. I sit here on a Tuesday morning—the hum of generators a familiar lullaby, though by God's grace we have now gone over 441 days without load-shedding. Yet even as Eskom reports progress, with five provinces now free from load reduction, the cost of living still bites like a hungry dog. Inflation jumped to 4.5% in May 2026. Electricity tariffs have risen 5.3 times faster than inflation since 1996. More than a third of South Africans live below the poverty line. In this environment, many are asking: How do I run toward my destiny when I can barely afford to stand still? The Law of the Willing Runner Let us define our terms clearly. Destiny is not a passive inheritance you wait to receive. It is an active pursuit you run to possess. Calling is not the whisper of privilege; it is the cry of obedience. And ...

 Title: The Laughter That Refuses to Quit: A South African Waiting Psalm By Harold Mawela, from Akasia, Tshwane Greetings, family. Harold Mawela here, writing from my study in Akasia, where the Highveld winter sun cuts through the window like a blade of promise—but the cold outside reminds me that we are still in a season. And if there is one thing we South Africans know, it is waiting. We wait for Eskom to keep the lights on and now that load-shedding has been absent for over a year, we wait for the bills not to cripple us. We wait for jobs that do not come 32.7% unemployment, 45.8% among the youth. We wait for water that does not flow, for justice that does not arrive, for a government that governs. We wait for the promised land that seems perpetually on the horizon but never beneath our feet. And in that waiting, we laugh not because we are amused, but because laughter is what happens when hope collides with impossibility. The Laughter of Impossibility Picture a ninety-year-old ...