Thato Golden Sakong! The young man who promises a bucketful of distinctions in his matric pass in 2010! MoAc wishes him the greatest of luck!

My name is Thato Golden Sakong. I was born on the 28th of July in 1992 at Groothoek Hospital in Zebediela, Limpopo Province. I grew up in Moletlane, Zebediela and in late 2001 me, my sister and mother moved to Diepsloot in Gauteng where we lived for over five years. It was closer to my mother’s place of employment that was Four-ways. I am currently living in Moletlane in Zebediela – where I was born. I am doing Matric at Chita Kekana Senior Secondary School- specializing in commercial subjects. I aim to pass my Matric with seven distictions at the end of the year and that is a distinction for every subject I am registered for. Outside school I play soccer for the MoAc Football Club – I am part of the 2009-2014 class. I also hold the position of team manager.

I am the third and last born child among my late mother’s children. The untimely death of my mother in 2006 marked me and my sisters return to our grandmother’s home in Moletlane in the following year. The reason for our return to Moletlane was that, our mother was a single parent and me and my sister were still so young and there was no one to look after us in Gauteng. I and my siblings were raised by a single parent and that is my mother together with the help of my family from the maternal side. Like any other child of a single parent growing up in poverty, I have had my own fair share of life’s hardships. But as our experiences play a great role in determining our characters, I think I am a “strong man”. However, nothing equals losing the only biological parent you have ever had to know in life.

Despite all that, my daunting challenges and hardships won’t seal my fate. I have dedicated myself to the struggle of shaping my future. I live among the most wonderful and great people at the moment who are endowed with fair and good guardianship traits – they are from both my family and community at large. What constitutes success differs from one person to another, so I have come to believe. I love it when people, both successful and unsuccessful in usual terms, share the little or more that they have.

Every human being is endowed with something special – that is, every human being is a source of some unique resource. I am motivated or inspired at this moment by seeing the dawn of the day when every human being shares that God given unique resource that is within them for the betterment of humanity – especially older people to the younger generations. I believe that here at MoAc we are working hard towards that goal/day.

Through MoAc I am learning leadership skills and further mingling with team mates and other players from different clubs that we get to play with improves and betters ones social behavior, respect etc. I am based at the moment at the primary home of MoAc where every afternoon tens of young people spend their time sporting or just sharing views and mingling in a protected environment. It is beautiful believe me. We are learning to be responsible, independent, and respectful to one another and further being motivated to follow our dreams regardless of where we come from. We as peers and the youth of MoAc in Moletlane share knowledge and it is safe to say that we are learning from each other and the experiences that being a member of MoAc brings along. I believe that Montshepetja Academy is playing a great role in the youth development of my community and South Africa at large. Crime and other enemies of humanity must be fought in this way. And I am glad to be a member of the MoAc family.